Daniel Case (b. 1979) works in the mediums of digital and film photography, as well as book-making. Case has a practice in unconventional portrait photography that often involves barter, Internet personals ads, and on-location shoots combining photographic services for the queer community with intimate examinations of interiors. His work pushes boundaries of documentary, portraiture, landscape photography, and conceptual archiving. Case studied at the San Francisco Art Institute where he received his BFA in 2009. Case has called San Francisco his home for 21 years, but is currently based in Southern California.
In many ways I liken the ritual aspect of the spaces in the show and others I’ve experienced to hunting and gathering, and how in rural places historically (and definitely before the internet and apps) people of the gay were starving and needed intimate hunting grounds. And if we were a roving foraging group, which in many ways we are, we’d return to the space where bounty or hunt was successful. And our group would return to this space in cycles and feel a lifelong connection to this space that provided nourishment. For our group this ground would become a magical place, and the hunt and embrace a ritual.