DAn Winters
Photographer & Art Director (USA)
Dan Winters is arguably one of the most versatile, celebrated, and renowned photographers working today; widely known for his unusual and iconic portraits of celebrities, his scientific work, street photography, illustrations, and capturing the “hallowed grounds” of NASA.
He is a National Geographic Explorer and has won over one hundred national and international awards from World Press Photo, American Photography, SIPA, IPA, Communication Arts, Society of Publication Designers, LIFE Magazine and the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography, among others.
He was also honored in 2025 by Professional Photographers of America with a lifetime achievement award. Winters’ clients include National Geographic, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, New York Magazine, TIME, Esquire, GQ, WIRED, Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly and many other national and international publications, as well as a host of advertising, publishing, music and entertainment clients.
Dan has 6 published books and has had multiple solo exhibitions of his work in NYC, Los Angeles, Savannah, Siena, Italy, Madrid, Spain and Sharjah, UAE.
As part of their new series Photographer, Natgeo TV recently released a documentary about Dan called “Dan Winters: Life is Once, Forever," which is currently streaming on Disneyplus.
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.