Dan Winters began his career as a photojournalist in Ventura County, California. After winning several regional awards, he moved to New York City and began to work as an editorial photographer. He is widely recognized for his unique celebrity portraiture, scientific photography, drawings, collages, and photojournalism.
Winters has been the recipient of more than one hundred national and international awards. In 1998, he received the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography; in 2003, he received a World Press Photo Award and was honored by Kodak as a photographic “icon” in their Legends series.
Winters has been the subject of seven solo exhibitions in galleries in New York City, Los Angeles, Rome, and Savannah. His most recent book, Last Launch, was published in 2012.
Winters’ work is represented in many private and public collections, such as the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.
Courtney A. McNeil is Curator of Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia.
John Grzywacz-Gray is Professor Emeritus of Photography at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California.
