As a photographer, my
goal is to capture a moment that will make a viewer react. When
an image accompanies a story, I seize a time frame that will tell part
of the story, and encourage the viewer to read. When capturing a
moment in the lives of these village
caretakers I also wanted you to feel them at work.
- DBM
McNeill
was an art director for the Washington-based Raider Advertising Agency
for 18 years. He sometimes received photographic images that did not
quite work for him. “So, I just started taking photographs
myself,” he recalls. Later, he started getting photographic
assignments from large corporations ranging from McDonalds to
Pepsi-Cola. With his brother he also operated Nubian Eye, a gift
shop on Kennedy Street, NW in Washington, D.C. for more than twelve
years.
The
native Washingtonian turned 50 in 1997 and took his photographic soul
journey to Ethiopia and Mali. “Touching the soul of the
Motherland was a special moment,” he says. Now at 60, McNeill is
pursing his next goal: the creation of a line of photographic
greeting cards.
Photos
by McNeill
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Daniel
B. McNeill
202-678-3377
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