A little bit about Daniel

As a boy growing up in Brooklyn, New York, my intimate relationship with the act of seeing had an unlikely beginning. Having had double vision for the first three years of my life, I learned to compensate and intuit depth perception through my then untapped love of light, space and the relationship between objects. It was not until I had struggled at every conventional career I tried, that I finally devoted myself to a passion for the visual image. Being able to slow down and extract a solitary frame of time from a world of visual and emotional complexities helps me order the otherwise overwhelming vastness of life itself.

I was first introduced to the wonders of depth of field while studying photography at City University of New York. Upon graduating from the Pratt Institute with a B.F.A. of Art and Design I embarked on a career path that has brought me the good fortune of receiving some of the design worlds highest honors. Parallel to that I have quietly pursued my love of photography. Selects of my work can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art, in the permanent collection of “This is New York” as well as in the “September 11th Photo Project”, published by Harper Collins and now in a personal photographic culinary memoir published by powerhouse Books in Brooklyn NYC.
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