David Hill was born in Portland, Maine and raised in Gorham. He has lived in a number of towns in Southern Maine. He currently lives in Southern Portland. Hill has been a television photojournalist since 1992, spending the last seventeen years at WGME. He got his first camera for Christmas in 1978, at age eight - a Kodak Instamatic - that he still has. A wanderer, Hill spends a lot of time visiting around the state of Maine, with his camera in tow.