David Butow, Road near Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, 1998 DAVID BUTOW began his career in photography working for newspapers in the Los Angeles area, and turned freelance in 1992. His photographs have appeared on the covers of Newsweek, Harper’s, U. S. News and World Report, and People. Butow, a member of the SABA photo agency, is presently a contract photographer with U.S. News and World Report.