Dan Ziskie is a Manhattan-based photographer and actor. As an actor, he is best known for his recurring role of Vice President Jim Matthews in House of Cards and the politically connected banker in post-Katrina New Orleans in Treme, among other parts. He began photographing in the early 1970s in Chicago while working for the commercial photographer Curt Burkhart. During this period, he also began to work in improvisational theater and in off-Broadway and experimental theatres that were developing at the time.
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Dan Ziskie’s pulsating street life images of New York – The Eye of Photography
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Dan Ziskie: Cloud Chamber | LENSCRATCH
Dan Ziskie: Cloud Chamber
“New York is known for the streams of people on the streets. For me, walking with a camera, it is as if these people are talking to me as they pass, trying to tell me something that I, in my limitations, can only make out in small fragments. And yet, even
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/01/dan-ziskie-cloud-chamber/
Street photography in 2018 is a challenge — we live in a heads-down, cell phone addicted world, where we push the anxiety and stress of city life into internal spaces. Photographer and American actor Dan Ziskie changes that description with his emotional photographs that use the streets as a stage set to create an exquisite opera of the human condition. His subjects play out personal dramas in photographs that are filled with angst, gesture, and visual confusion creating a form of kinetic theatre performed daily on the streets, all set to the sound track of jackhammers, taxi horns, and the rumbling of subways.