Artist Studio

About Daniel Sroka For most of my life, my photography took a back seat to paying the bills. A discovered talent for graphic design helped me pay my way through school. This lead to a professional career, the highlight of which was my role as the original creative director for Yahoo!, where I helped guide them from a quirky curiosity into a globally-recognized brand. But I grew tired of using my artistic skills to help other people realize their dreams, while ignoring my own. So I quit my day job, and focused my energy on my fine art photography.

Where my art comes from Photography has always shaped how I see the world. My childhood desk was my father's old enlarger, and I spent many days in our basement darkroom, listening to the creaking of the floorboards as we coaxed images out of the dark. Then when I was 12 years old, I earned my first computer by scraping a hundred years of paint off my uncle's house. It was like a new part of my brain had woken up. That computer was my first experience with unrestricted creativity: an artistic tool that you can mold to the needs of your imagination. When I combined photography with computers, I felt like I finally found my creative home. Like a perfectly weighted hammer and chisel, the camera and the computer simply feel right in my hands, allowing me to see farther and deeper than I ever could alone.

Selected Exhibitions and Press My prints are in over 800 private collections. 2008 - Group show, Typologies, Fraction Magazine 2008 - Group show, Elemental/Environmental: Space, New Orleans Photo Alliance. (Gary Braasch, juror) 2008 - Px3 (Prix de la Photographie Paris), third place in Nature category (press release) 2007 - Featured artist, Area of Design 2007 - Featured photographer, Positive Focus (NYC) 2007 - Group exhibition: Arcadia: Artists Celebrate Trees, California Modern Gallery (San Francisco, CA) 2004 - Solo exhibition: The Main Gallery (Redwood City, CA) 2004 - Group exhibition: Visions of Memory, The Main Gallery (Redwood City, CA) 2003 - Group exhibition: Garden of Earthly Delights, The Main Gallery (Redwood City, CA)