South Central Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Dan Winters

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 3:00pm,

Keynote: Dan Winters

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 and aerospace work, street photography and illustrations. Dan has won over one hundred national and international awards, including the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography, World Press Photo award, many awards from American Photography, Siena International Photo Awards, International Photography Awards, Communication Arts, National Magazine Awards, The Society of Publication Designers, PDN, the Art Directors Club of New York and Life Magazine, among others. He was also honored by Kodak as a photo "Icon" in their biographical "Legends" series. He was also honored in 2025 by Professional Photographers of America with a lifetime achievement award. He is also National Geographic Explorer.

His work appears in many national and international publications, including The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Texas Monthly, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, WIRED, Golf Digest, Fortune, Vanity Fair, GQ, TIME, Stern, Paris Match, Esquire and Rolling Stone. His clients include Apple, Netflix, HBO, Amazon, NBCUniversal, Warner Brothers, Paramount, DreamWorks, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Atlantic Records, A&M, RCA and Interscope, Microsoft, Facebook/Meta, Samsung, Nike, Patagonia, Target, Saturn, Fila, Sega, Sony, HP, Bose, among others. He has had multiple solo gallery exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Siena, Italy, Madrid, Spain, Sharjah, UAE and a solo exhibition at the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah. His work is in the permanent collections at the National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the Telfair Museum and The Harry Ransom Center. His books include Dan Winters Photographs, Dan Winters' America: Icons and Ingenuity, Last Launch, Periodical Photographs, Road To Seeing, which chronicles his path to becoming a photographer, and The Grey Ghost, a selection from 30 years of his New York street photography. As a film director, he has recently produced and directed two award winning short films, TONE and World War Rylan. He lives in Austin, Texas, Los Angeles and Savannah, Georgia with his wife, Kathryn.

As part of their new series Photographer, National Geographic recently released a documentary about Dan called "Dan Winters: Life is Once, Forever," which can be seen on NatgeoTV and is currently streaming on Disneyplus.