Personal info
Known for
Ultimate Talent
Gender
Male
Birthday
21 October
Location
California, United States
Edit pageDan Winters
Biography
Dan Winters (born October 21, 1962) is an American portrait photographer, illustrator, filmmaker and writer.
In 1986, he began his career in photography as a photojournalist in his hometown in Ventura County, at the Thousand Oaks News Chronicle. After winning several local awards for his work, he moved to New York City, where magazine assignments came rapidly. In 1991, he moved to Los Angeles and married Kathryn Fouts, who became his photo rep and studio manager.
In 1993, his son was born in Los Angeles. In 2000, while maintaining a home in LA, he moved to Austin, Texas. There he set up a studio outside Austin in a historic building built in 1903, that had originally served as a general store, gas station, and post office for nearly 100 years before he arrived.
Known for the broad range of subject matter he can interpret, he is widely recognized for his iconic celebrity portraiture, his scientific photography, his photojournalistic stories, and more recently his drawings and illustrations.
He has created portraits of celebrities such as Bono, Neil Young, Barack Obama, Tupac Shakur, the Dalai Lama, Stephen Hawking, Leonardo DiCaprio, Helen Mirren, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg and Al Gore.
He has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, Photo District News, The Art Directors Club of New York, and Life, among others.
In 1998, he was awarded the prestigious Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography. In 2003, he won a 1st place World Press Photo Award in the portrait category. In 2003, he was also honored by Kodak as a photo "Icon" in their biographical "Legends" series.
