DANA SHEPHARD: PHOTOJOURNALIST

Dana Marie Shepherd, Photojournalist and Board Member of The Tronie Foundation

A native of Chicago, now living in the Pacific Northwest since 2002, Dana Shepherd is a self-taught amateur photographer. Always with a longstanding love for the art of photography, she first picked up a digital camera in 2006 and began to further her love of the discipline from the other side of the lens.

An avid outdoorswoman and mountaineer, the playground of the Cascade Mountains has allowed her to learn a great deal about her camera and its craft through the practice of landscape photography.

As a medical professional by trade, this background has provided her many opportunities to travel to developing nations on a variety of medical missions to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, West Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. It was during these travels that she found her true passion in photography: Photojournalism and candid portrait work, documenting the faces and stories of people most of the world has forgotten…particularly children.

She has found street photography to be a marvelous bridge to the cultural gaps that exist in the world, allowing an opening for dialogue and understanding with each interaction she has before she takes a picture.

Her landscape work has been featured on the official website for Washington State tourism, and several landscape and portrait pieces have been donated for various non-profit publications and fund raising auctions. She is currently working on developing her photojournalism work into books to be sold with the profits being returned to development projects in those same countries. She also presently serves on the Board of Directors for the Tronie Foundation, assisting with PR and contributing photojournalism pieces for the organization.

She works with a Nikon D2X, Nikon 18-200VR lens, Nikor 85mm/1.4 lens, and SB400 Speedlight.

Her photostream can be visited here.