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Keith Dannemiller
Keith Dannemiller was born and raised in Akron, Ohio and later moved to Tennessee where he graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Organic Chemistry.
While working as a research assistant, he studied photography at San Francisco State University from 1973 to 1975. During this time he published his first images in the San Francisco Chroinicle. In 1976 he moved to Austin, Texas where he worked for The Texas Observer, Third Coast and Texas Monthly. In 1985, with the support of the Texas Council on the Humanities, he photographed the documentary "Working in Texas."
During his time in Austin, Dannemiller began the first of many photographic trips to the north of Mexico, in particular to the area around Espinazo, Nuevo Leon. There he documented the festival of the Niño Fidencio, a folk saint renowned in México during the 1920's. The resulting work was published in Third Coast magazine and exhibited in Austin. In 1987 he decided to live and work in Mexico. A relationship that began with the Mexican photo agency Imagenlatina in May, 1987 resulted in two trips to the Middle East (1988 and 1989) to cover the unfolding events of the Intifada.
In Latin America he has covered a wide variety of situations ranging from Nicaraguan recontras to street children in Mexico City to life on the US-Mexico border. His work regularly appears in TIME Magazine, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes and ESPN Magazine among other noted publications around the world.
Projects that have captured his interest include: Guatemalan refugees in the southern state of Chipas, specifically in the Nueva Libertad camp; the street life of Mexico City's Centro Historico; and currently, portraits of the women of Mexico City's dance halls known as "ficheras."
Dannemiller lives with his family in Diego Ray in the Condesa district of Mexico City. He is represented by editorial picture agency ZUMA Press.
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