About Dan Rose

Dan has been a working professional photographer for over thirty years. The focus of Dan’s fine art work is urban and rural architecture and landscape photography. The body of work exhibits a variety of panoramic, spherical and black and white images.  He incorporates the use of conventional, rotational and swing lens panoramic film cameras, medium and large format film cameras, as well as digital capture methods. His photography has been shown in Atlanta, Phoenix, Austin, Springfield MA,  Cologne, Germany,  Fredonia, KS, Iola KS, Overland Park KS and is currently on exhibit at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church 6630 Nall Avenue Mission KS. It is available for purchase at his website featuring the exhibit – www.DanRoseFineArtPhotos.com  

Dan is a published author and speaker, both nationally and internationally, on a variety of business & photography topics including: business ownership, professional sales, owning and operating a profitable business, forensic photography, fine art photography, the business of photography, panoramic photography and virtual reality.

Dan's passion for photography has helped him to work well with photo enthusiasts of all ages and experience levels. Dan provides a variety of creative photography workshops,  photography lectures. He has chaired photography contests, and has been a photography club leader and mentor for adults and students K-12.  . More information can be on found at  www.CreativePhotographyWorkshops.com .

Dan is honored to be the first photographer appointed to the Kansas Arts on Tour Roster underwritten by the State of Kansas and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Dan is owner of the Suprachrome  (www.Suprachrome.com), a company that provides "Exact Match" Fine Art quality ink to the discerning hobbyist and professional photographer. All of Dan’s fine art photographs are printed on Suprachrome Media with archival pigment Suprachrome Ink. Dan divides his business hours between the company offices in Kansas City and Chicago.  

Dan's latest photography exhibit review...

Reprinted from:

REVIEW Mid America's Visual Arts Publication

(c) Steve Brisendine, January 18, 2010

http://ereview.org/2010/01/18/artkc365-theres-a-different-point-to-his-views-dan-rose/

There’s a Different Point to His Views: Dan Rose

By Steve Brisendine

Dan Rose looks through his viewfinder and sees the same things as the rest of us.

The difference — not more or less, but more and less — is in how Rose processes that information, captures it and presents it to viewers.

On the "more" side, Rose's Recent Visualizations — which runs through February at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Mission — includes several panoramic shots along the lines of today's featured image, Sphere City. On the "less" side, the solo show also includes a number of pieces which reduce buildings to simple shapes, vehicles to lines and curves and rusty machinery to a series of focal points.

"When I'm shooting, I don't see a car or a tree or a building," Rose said at Friday night's opening reception. "I see shapes and light and texture and contrast."

Rose presents those elements over a wide range of styles and subjects (and color schemes, ranging from the full spectrum to rich sepia to dramatically washed-out black and white). But if color and subject are the variables, compositional tension is the constant. Each piece has its key point off-center in some way, which Rose offsets and balances with a generous use of open space.

It's an appealing asymmetry, and decidedly intentional on Rose's part.

On one level, it's a visual metaphor for the creative tension that drives all artists. On another, Rose says, that unbalance deals with the way too many photographers perceive their immediate surroundings  — as mundane, comtemptibly familiar and bereft of interesting imagery.

"If I'm somewhere in the great state of Kansas talking to photographers," he says, "they'll tell me, 'I wish I was in New York, where they have all of those great buildings to photograph. All I have here are these hills and the sky.' Then I go to New York, and the photographers there say, 'There's nothing interesting here. All I have are these big buildings. I wish I had some real scenery to photograph."

Rose's sharply differing perspective is in part the product of experience. He got his first darkroom setup when he was 8 and his first paying gig when he was 16.

The other prime factor of Rose's artistic equation, though, has less to do with technique and everything to do with the spark of discovery.

"I took my first photograph," he said, "and it changed my life."

Photography changed the way Rose sees the world, too ... and now his work gives others a chance to see the world and everything in it in new ways as well.

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