About
Photographs on this website by © 2010 Daniel Sheehan. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.
This is my blog portfolio displaying recent work in all of the areas of photography that I practice. I spend my days photographing a blend of different kinds of assignments, mainly involving people including editorial, corporate, music and wedding photography. All of this work I do in my own style which I have as yet undefined, but comes out of the photojournalist tradition. Having worked for 16 years as a news photographer for various newspapers, I became accustomed to having to go from shooting a Super Bowl, to a chef, to a celebrity to flying off to Afghanistan or the Soviet Union to cover some kind of conflict. In between I like to go out with my old panoramic camera and just make landscapes and cityscapes on film to relax and make pictures that make me feel good. This website is my chance to put everything together and see how they hang together. My other websites are specialized for the market they are seeking. This is just for the photography I do. My official bio is below. Hope you enjoy looking through these pictures.
Daniel Sheehan is a Pulitzer prize winning Seattle editorial photographer who specializes in portraits and photojournalism. Highly sought after by advertising, editorial, and corporate clients, Daniel has a unique ability to put people at ease in front of his camera.
He creates photographs in both the digital and film mediums for editorial photography and corporate photography and is comfortable shooting in a studio, on location, or if necessary setting up an impromptu studio at a location. His photography often uses the narrative or story-telling approach. He produces compelling narrative photographs with a distinctive artistic edge. Often available for editorial and corporate assignments at the last minute, Daniel is able to produce digital images and turn them around in the same day under extremely urgent delivery requirements.
For more than 20 years Daniel has worked as an editorial photographer in New York, NY, Seattle, WA, Bellevue, WA, Redmond, WA and abroad for national and international publications, design companies and advertising agencies. Daniel is also able to work quickly and with a minimum of set up time. He is capable of producing high impact and captivating images on tight deadlines. With skill and experience, Seattle editorial photographer Daniel Sheehan shoots assignments in a style that is real, straightforward, subtle and unobtrusive.
Some of the national editorial magazines he has done assignments for include the National Geographic, US News, Time, Education Week, Newsweek, Business Week, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, People Magazine, Playboy, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has worked as The New York times portrait photographer, as well as a portrait photographer for New York Newsday and the Washington Post. Some of the corporations he has worked for include Amazon.com, Alliance Capital, The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation, Encompass, Getty Images, Intracorp, Microsoft, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks, TIAA-CREF and Unisys Corporation, and Waggener Edstrom.
As an editorial photographer for NY Newsday, Daniel Sheehan has covered such stories as the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the breakup of the Soviet Union and a famine in Ethiopia. He also covered the fashion collections in Milan, London & Paris and a number of Super Bowls. His work has been recognized with awards from the Society of the Silurians, the Florida and New York State Associated Press Associations and the National Press Photographers Association.
For ten years until 1995, Sheehan worked at New York Newsday. In 1989, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of war in Afghanistan and a devastating earthquake in Armenia. He and several colleagues were honored when they won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for local news for their coverage of the fatal crash of a New York City subway.
For the past few years Daniel has accepted a limited number of commissions to document wedding celebrations. One of his favorites was photographing television talk show host Conan O’Brien’s wedding at St. James Cathedral in Seattle. He is planning to publish a selection of his best work in a forthcoming book on weddings. His wedding website is called A BEAUTIFUL DAY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
As a wedding photographer he specializes in documentary wedding photography that captures candid emotion and real beauty in a way that only true photojournalism from a highly experienced photojournalist can. Daniel has been specializing in the art of wedding photography since 1998 and has built an enviable reputation by providing couples with compelling wedding photography. His superior level of craftsmanship, client service, professionalism and stunning photography has earned him the privilege of receiving commissions from international magazines, corporations and couples engaged to be married around the world on three continents. Gathering together each and every person attending the wedding he creates a portrait of your whole wedding party enabling you to look back in years to come and remember the faces of all who witnessed your wedding vows. No other wedding photographer creates such stunning wedding panoramas.Daniel is inspired and motivated by the sheer elegance of every wedding as he redefines the art of wedding photography. He had created a style that has been described as candid, cutting edge and contemporary through capturing every significant emotion filled moment of the day..
Music has been one of Sheehan’s longtime favorite subjects and he regularly photographs some of the most interesting jazz musicians on the Seattle scene every month for Earshot Jazz magazine.
Since 2007, Daniel has served on the Board of Trustee of the Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) offering guidance from the perspective of a working photojournalist. PCNW has a 20 year history of serving as the Northwest center for education, outreach, and exhibitions in the photographic arts. PCNW strives to enrich photographic artistry and appreciation through its quality courses and workshops, a gallery exhibiting internationally renowned artists, and outreach programs which serve photographers throughout the region.
Daniel is married and lives with his wife Jana and daughters Ema and Claire in a Craftsman style bungalow in Seattle, Washington.
Photography by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, editorial photographer and corporate photographer who accepts assignments to photograph portraits and events for publications and corporations. I am also a Seattle wedding photographer, specializing in candid wedding photography with a photojournalist style.