Dave Jordano is a Chicago native who has been working in the documentary style for the past 18 years. He considers himself a cultural documentarian who uses a camera to record specific environments, people, and places.

In 2015 he won the prestigious $50,000 Canadian AIMIA AGO Photography Prize for his Detroit: Unbroken Down Project, and also was awarded a finalist position in the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, exhibiting at National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

His work is included in the collections of several private, corporate, and museum institutions, most notably the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Library of Congress, Division of Prints and Photographs.