Jan Kesner Gallery

Dan Winters

black and white photograph of Dan Winters seated at a wooden table, resting his head on one hand, with a pair of glasses on the table in front of him.

born, 1962

Dan Winters is born in Ventura County, California, in 1962, and begins working in the darkroom as a boy, through his local 4-H club. He studies at Moorpark College and at the documentary film school of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.

He starts out as a photojournalist at home in Ventura County, then moves to New York, where magazine assignments come quickly. He becomes known for portraits, scientific photography, and illustration.

His books include Last Launch, on the final flights of the space shuttles Discovery, Endeavour, and Atlantis, and Road to Seeing, on his path to photography. Among his honors are the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography and a World Press Photo award.

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