Dan Herrera is an imagemaker and educator living and working out of Sacramento, CA. Inspired by the power of objects as a means to tell a story, he creates photographs with robust physical qualities that transcend what can be communicated on a digital screen. His studio practice merges narrative photography with intentional methods of historical, contemporary, and alternative photographic production.
Dan’s collaborative and community-based work examines the narrative of identity and sense of place in the Latinx community within systems of privilege and oppression. As a practicing artist, his efforts have led to an invitational lectures at Carnegie Mellon (2014), presenting works relating to narrative and historical process, and a juried lecture at The Society of Photographic Education (2019) where he delivered a scholar presentation on the evolution of internet memes as a pathway to social justice.
His national publication record includes The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, 3rd Edition, 2015, and Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, 3rd Edition, 2018. Exhibitions of his work have appeared at SOHO Photo in New York, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, including a solo show at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.
