David Guttenfelder was born in Iowa and graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts in cultural anthropology. He has worked for the AP since 1994 based in Kenya, the Ivory Coast, India and Japan. He is currently AP’s chief Asia photographer and his feature work has been used prominently in editorial publications throughout the world including Time and National Geographic.

A North Korean choir sings during a concert in Pyongyang on Monday April 16, 2012 to commemorate 100 years since the birth of Kim Il Sung. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

A North Korean soldier, working as a guide, walks through a forest that is said to be a former camp site where the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung overnight while leading a battle against the Japanese at the foot of Mount Paektu, North Korea, April 4, 2012. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang after reviewing a parade of thousands of soldiers and commemorating the 70th birthday of his late father Kim Jong Il on Thursday, February 16, 2012. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

A North Korean soldier stands in front of the country's Unha-3 rocket, slated for liftoff between April 12-16, at a launching site in Tongchang-ri, North Korea on Sunday April 8, 2012. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment read and pack their gear under red light head lamps at a forward operating campsite in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday February 18, 2010. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

North Korean soldiers ride by on horses in front of flower waving civilians during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung on Sunday, April 15, 2012. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

Afghan National Army soldiers train on a firing range at a U.S. army base in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Sunday, November 1, 2009. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, fire mortars at known enemy firing positions from a base in the Pech River Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar province, Saturday, October 24, 2009. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

North Koreans visit the Pyongyang Folk Park on the outskirts of Pyongyang Thursday, April 11, 2013. The park, which spans Korean history from prehistoric to modern times, opened in September 2012 after three years of construction by North Korean soldiers. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

North Korean swimmers enter a waterfall wading pool inside the Haedanghwa Health Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, May 19, 2013. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

A North Korean boy on rollerblades is pulled by a woman on a bicycle on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, on a road south of Kaesong, North Korea and north of the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

North Koreans pay their respects before a monument of Kim Il Sung at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday April 14, 2011. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

North Korean girls stand at attention at the end of a performance of the “Arirang” mass games at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang Friday, July 26, 2013 on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

A North Korean teacher holds open a children's pop-up book, which depicts a U.S. soldier killing a Korean woman with a hatchet, in a library room at Kaeson Kindergarten in central Pyongyang on Saturday, March 9, 2013. For North Koreans, the systematic indoctrination of anti-Americanism starts as early as kindergarten. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

A North Korean man sings karaoke while his daughter plays the piano at a hotel bar in Mount Kumgang, North Korea, Friday October 7, 2011. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

Tayo Kitamura, 40, kneels in the street to caress and talk to the wrapped body of her mother Kuniko Kitamura, 69, after Japanese firemen discovered the dead woman inside the ruins of her home in Onagawa, northeastern Japan Saturday, March 19, 2011. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

Young North Korean synchronized swimmers perform at an exhibition event in Pyongyang on Friday, February 15, 2013. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

A North Korean soldier guarding the entrance to Pyongyang's Kumsusan mausoleum, where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, looks back through the doors of the main gate Monday, April 15, 2013. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

A crowd of North Korean military members wait for a mass meeting of North Korea's ruling party to start at a stadium in Pyongyang on Saturday, April 14, 2012. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

North Koreans look up with delight as they watch a fireworks display along the Taedong River in Pyongyang to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung on Sunday, April 15, 2012. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

North Korean soldiers and civilians pose for souvenir photos in front of a fountain as they tour the grounds of Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, in Pyongyang on Thursday, April 25, 2013. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

An off duty North Korean traffic policeman laces up ice skates as his colleagues sit near by at an ice skating rink in Pyongyang, North Korea Friday, January 11, 2013. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

The arm of a mannequin sticks out from the rubble in a devastated neighborhood in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, in northeastern Japan, Monday, May 30, 2011 which was destroyed in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

A young North Korean dancer leaps by as North Korean girls put on panda bear costumes as they prepare to perform at a gathering at a park to celebrate the 99th anniversary of the late leader Kim Il Sung's birthday in Pyongyang Friday, April 15, 2011. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)