Figurative and Nude Fine Art Photographer Dan Katz

Dan Katz was in commercial advertiser and creative director for over 30 years in Los Angeles, CA before devoting his time to photography more full time. His love of photography began at the age of 10 with his grandfather’s gift of a Kodak Brownie and a darkroom kit. His work has come a long way. It includes figurative and nude fine art, architectural photography, landscape photography, abstractions, human interest images and more. Dan's award-winning photography has been exhibited in various publications and art galleries, and acclaimed for its visual beauty, quality of execution, and attention to detail.

The water-nudes are some of his most recent work, post pandemic. allowing him to explore the grace of motion in the three-dimensionality of space in water. Fabrics and hair take on their own unexpected, animated life, the poses are lyrical, sensual and surprising, and the abstractions of light through the water cannot be replicated in a studio setting. 

Dan says: "I truly don’t have any one favorite subject to photograph. I’m inspired by nature, but also by architecture, by the amazing shapes and colors of humanity and by the eternity of death. I love photographing 'found art,' abstractions in whitewashed store windows, shapes of rusted metals, or the long-ago remains of posters on telephone poles. Photography is all about constant discovery as I see the world through my lens. My inspirations are the Great Photographers: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Wynn Bullock, André Kertész, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and more recent masters such as Richard Avedon, Albert Watson and Helmut Newton."