Daniel DuVall Photography

Artist Statement:: I photograph pre-Columbian cave paintings in the Dominican Republic in order to both document this slowly vanishing cultural heritage and to bring it into the light so that the world may see it.

Biography:: After teaching photography for eight years in the Visual Arts Department at Simon's Rock College I am now devoting my time documenting pre-Columbian cave art in the Dominican Republic.

I have traveled and photographed in Europe, North Africa, and the Caribbean, and was the assistant field botanist on two field trips to the rain forest of Guyana, South America. I have had numerous short fictions published, most notably in the book, October Mountain Anthology, while my photographs are represented in a number of private and institutional collections, and I have received awards and fellowships for both my writing and my photography. Recent shows included photographs of fossilized rhinocerous in Nebraska, a series of photographs of partially erased blackboards, a group of portraits produced with cameras I constructed myself and a group of landscapes utilizing both pinhole photography and xerography.

An exhibit, Huellas Pictograficas, of my 26x36 inch handprinted photographs of cave drawings in the Dominican Republic showed at the Museo del Hombre Dominicano in Santo Domingo in 2006 and many images remain on permanent exhibit there.

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