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Keith Dannemiller graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee with a B.A., majoring in Organic Chemistry and minoring in Mathematics. While working as a research assistant, he studied Photography at San Francisco State University. During this time he published his first images in the San Francisco Chronicle. 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 throughout the state of Texas for the project "Working in Texas." During his time in Austin, he began the first of many photographic trips to the north of México, in particular 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 México. 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.
While currently an independent freelancer, during the past 19 years he was associated with two US photo agencies: Black Star and Saba Press Photos. As a photographer in Latin America, he has covered a wide variety of situations, ranging from Nicaraguan recontras to street children in México City to life on the US-México border. His work appears regularly in
Time, Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes amongst other noted publications in the US, Europe and Asia. A more complete client list and examples of his work can be seen at www.keithdannemiller.com.
A reoccurring theme in his work that all of these magazines have published deals with "working in México." Other projects that have captured his interest include: Guatemalan refugees in the southern state of Chiapas, specifically in the Nueva Libertad camp; street portraits from Mexico City's Centro Historico; and currently, Danzón events in the city's public parks.
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