Daniel Dorsa

Daniel Dorsa is a Los Angeles photographer who works across portraiture, fashion, landscape and visual reportage. A fascination with the cultural and aesthetic flatness of modern America permeates Dorsa’s work, which is tied to his upbringing in suburban Florida as a child of Cuban and Italian immigrants. He discovered photography in high school, taking a class with the intention of documenting his friends in the skateboarding scene. Inspired by skate magazine action imagery and the freedom skateboarding itself offered as a vehicle for both environmental engagement and creative expression, Dorsa’s first book, Paradise, draws together photographs made between 2017 and 2020 in south and central Florida, exploring isolation and environmental decay. He currently has a new zine out, The Sun Was Gold Like A Yolk Dripping, about self-exploration while traveling in Japan.