Dan Hendrickson

Dan Hendrickson is a fine arts photographer residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work uses the 19th-century printing method known as cyanotype to tell stories of futurism, spaceflight, and our place in a theorized multiverse. His use of cyanotype pays homage to the forebearers of the medium, who used it to capture photograms of flora or scenes of bridge building on the Mississippi River in the 1800s. It is because cyanotype has its historic roots in depicting earthy subjects that it now casts visions of the future in a captivating and believable light. It is this new narrative direction for the medium that is the starting place for his work.

Hendrickson is a self-taught photographer and cyanotype printmaker whose day job is in the space industry, a subject that heavily influences his photography. Pieces from his latest series Cosmologica centering on a fictional space mission have been selected for exhibition by the Three Rivers Art Festival, and the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. His previous color photography has been featured by the Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, the Verge, and Lui Magazine.

BA Florida Institute of Technology, Aerospace Engineering, 2009

MA The George Washington University, International Science and Technology Policy, 2011

2019
Sights and Sounds, Maekan.com, Web Feature on Cosmologica

2017
ABSTRACTIONS, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA

Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

2014
Spaceport West, Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, Web Feature on SP^CEPORT series

La ville d’où partiront les premiers vols spatiaux, Lui Magazine, Web Feature on SP^CEPORT series

Spaceport America, The Verge, Web Feature on SP^CEPORT series