About the Artist

Biography

Daniel Southard was born in 1970 in Colorado and grew up in the relentlessly expanding suburbs of southern California. He was deeply affected by the changes to the American landscape wrought by this suburban revolution. He first came to know photography through his father’s darkroom. From the first time he ever saw a camera and witnessed the developing image emerge in the developer, he was enamored by the magic of catching and holding a moment and how it allowed him more time to pause and ponder. For him, photography has always been the best mode of understanding his world more fully. Photography is his way of longing, his poetry, his expression.

Daniel's work reflects a deep desire to find a sense of place in the placeless, a sense of belonging in the overwhelming alienation from nature, and a sense of overarching truth in his carefully crafted fictions.