DAn Winters

Photographer & Art Director (USA)

Photographer and Director Dan Winters is widely recognized for his celebrity portraiture, scientific and aerospace photography, photojournalism, and illustrations.

Dan has won over one hundred awards for his work, including a first place World Press Photo Award and the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography.  He was also honored by Kodak as a photo “Icon” in their biographical “Legends” series. 

His work appears in many national and international publications, including The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, WIRED, Vanity Fair, GQ, TIME, and Rolling Stone. 

His advertising clients include HBO, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Samsung, Patagonia, Netflix, Universal, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, RCA and Interscope. 

Dan has had multiple solo gallery exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles, and a solo exhibition at the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah. His work is in the permanent collections at the National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the Telfair Museum and The Harry Ransom Center.

Dan lives in Austin, TX, Los Angeles, and Savannah, GA with his wife, Kathryn.

His books include:

• Dan Winters Periodical Photographs (2009)

• Dan Winters' America: Icons and Ingenuity (2012)

• Last Launch, Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavor, Atlantis (2012)

• Road To Seeing, which chronicles his path to becoming a photographer (2014)

• The Grey Ghost, a selection from 30 years of his New York street photography (2016)

• In 2021 he completed his first short film, TONE, a dystopian love story that he wrote and directed.