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.