Dan Sandersfeld
Tiffin, Iowa
A native of Amana, Iowa, Dan Sandersfeld is a photographer specializing in analog photography. He studied photography at Stanford University as part of a curriculum including journalism and communications. Influenced by photographers including Walker Evans, Josef Sudek, and David Plowden, Sandersfeld’s current work focuses on landscapes, “agritecture,” and nature of the American Midwest.
Sandersfeld uses medium and large format cameras and film, and works in a traditional darkroom to make black and white silver gelatin prints. He also employs a film/digital hybrid workflow to produce pigment prints and uses alternative processes to create cyanotypes and salt prints.
Sandersfeld’s work has been recognized by Analog Forever Magazine, an online and print publisher of contemporary analog photography. His images are included in the magazine’s online group exhibitions “Visual Audio,” “The Psychology of Night,” and “A Certain Kind of Blue.”
Sandersfeld was the primary photographer for the Iowa Theatre Artists Company, in Amana, and operated his own commercial studio to produce portraits and product photography. He currently works as a technical writer and photographer and resides in Tiffin, Iowa.
Artist’s Statement
“The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.”
—Dan Winters, Road to Seeing
I strive to develop, through photography, the state of exceptional awareness to which Dan Winters refers in the introduction of his book, Road to Seeing.
In making pictures, I seek to find and reveal:
~ the sublime in the mundane
~ a sense of balance within chaos
~ patterns of visual coherence amid confusion
—Dan Sandersfeld
