Jesting

Dan Burkholder

By Sonya. (Wednesday, 20. December 2006)

Dan Burkholder was one of the first photographic artists to embrace digital technology in the early 1990’s. True to his love of the traditional photograph, Dan uses digital technology to build images that still look and feel like real photographs, not like something from a graphic designer’s portfolio. Melding his unique vision with mastery of both the wet and digital darkrooms, his platinum prints are now included in many museum and private collections.
Dan has taught classes and workshops at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the lnternational Center of Photography in New York, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and others. Active with the Texas Photographic Society for many years, he is currently serving on the Advisory Board for this organization.
Dan Burkholder was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, an agri-industrial community in the Appalachian Mountains. He attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, where he received his BA and Masters Degrees in Photography.
Dan lives in Carrollton, Texas, with his wife, Jill Skupin Burkholder, and their five six cats.
Besides photography, Dan enjoys spending time with Jill, motorcyling, and preparing to move to a part of the country that embraces progressive politics. Dan regards the increased religiosity of America as one of the most sinister, dangerous and stupid trends in his lifetime.