Coming soon
The PhotoSmith
I'm building a new home for my artwork. My work celebrates the human form and the marvelous, beautiful diversity of humanity, twenty-eight years in the making..
Be there when the door opens.
One note when the site is ready. Nothing else.
What's going on?
I've been making fine art nude photographs for twenty-eight years, most of them of people who arrived at my studio with some version of the same question: who am I when you strip back everything to the core of my being?
The work is collaborative by necessity. I don't photograph people so much as create with them. The images and artwork come from the conversations, not the camera. A lot of it is figure work, and I've never been interested in treating the body as a scandal. The human form is the oldest, simplest, most honest artistic subject there is.
The old site was a portfolio built to showcase my work and feed the attention economy. I'm building something different. A space for the people who want to explore, experience, and understand my artwork, and the people in it.
— Dan
From the archive
A small taste. More soon.
What's coming
An exclusive archive and private exhibition gallery, maintained by the artist.
A membership site that I run myself. Not rented space on someone else's platform, existing at the whim of risk-averse corporate policies. The full archive, featuring new work as it's made, and the notes and contact sheets that usually never leave my file cabinets.
It won't be a feed. Nothing here is designed to be scrolled past. Think of it as a print room you can walk into, run by the person who made the prints and who still knows everyone in them.
On consent & collaboration
Everyone I've photographed has a standing invitation back into the work.
To see what exists of them, to ask for it, to ask for it to come down. That hasn't changed in twenty-eight years and it isn't changing now. Consent isn't a form you sign at the start of a session. It's the foundation that my whole practice runs on.