Dan Burkholder at Viewpoint in May

The Viewpoint Gallery presents an exhibition by internationally renowned photographer Dan Burkholder from May 13 to June 25. Dan, who lives in Texas, will be attending the Second Saturday reception on May 14.

Burkholder says of his work, “I am more concerned with emotional honesty than literal honesty in my photographs. My job is to respond to visual intrigue and beauty, and then to create a photograph that conveys to the viewer my feelings for the subject. When it works, I’m happy.”

Dan Burkholder was one of the first photographic artists to embrace digital technology in the early 1990s. 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.

Pioneering the digitally enlarged negative process in 1992, Burkholder has helped to open doors for all black and white photographers interested in moving into the new electronic technologies. Dan's landmark book, “Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing,” has become a standard reference in the digital fine art photography field and was awarded Best Technical Book by Photo Eye, the world's largest distributor of photography books.

In 2001, Burkholder originated the pigment-over-platinum process that combines digitally applied archival color pigments with hand-coated platinum. This new medium brings to photography the ability to merge subtle color with the warmth and beauty of the traditional platinum print.

Dan has taught classes and workshops at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Royal Photographic Society in Madrid, Spain, 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.