Dan Dion is a photographer specializing in portraits, performing arts, and hospitality. He is internationally renowned as the world’s most prolific portrait photographer of comedians, and has worked for the last fifteen years as the house photographer at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
His work has been published in hundreds of publications, including Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, and Variety. Album and DVD art has been commissioned by artists of stature such as George Carlin and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot.
Other clients include Pixar, Comedy Central, Warner Brothers, project (RED), Atlantic Records, T*Mobile, Rhino Records, Monster Cable, The Fairmont Hotels, and Anti-/Epitaph Records.
In May of 2010 his first book, ¡Satiristas! was published by HarperCollins. A collaboration with comic/filmmaker Paul Provenza, it features portraits and interviews. Visit http://www.satiristas.com for more info.
He has ongoing solo exhibitions of his work in New York, San Francisco, Hollywood, and Sydney, and was recently accepted for representation by the prestigious Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.