Dan grew up near Buffalo, New York in the 60s and 70s. A significant impact on his life was the early development of a corneal disease. Beginning at age 12 and continuing to the present day, he has undergone 7 corneal transplant surgeries. The very first was by an amazing Spanish surgeon, Ramon Castroviejo, in New York city. All the recent grafts have been in his current home, Boston, Massachusetts.

He was schooled as an engineer at several universities across New York state, ending at RPI in Troy, NY. Then the “Route 128 Technology Highway” beckoned him to Boston, along with a loving aunt and cousins. He worked at two different companies as a software engineer, but never ate Doritos or made pyramids of Coke cans in his office. In 1989, after nine years of geeking, he left Apollo Computer (no connection to NASA) to take up a serious study of photography.

After employment in various photography gigs, he switched to higher education, eventually at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. While working at MassArt, he earned a masters in photography at Maryland Institute College of Art. He has worked now for many years as an academic advisor at MassArt but image-making is really at the center of his life. He captures images close to home but transforms them digitally into images of new and unexpected places.