Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Daniel Sheehan, a North Seattle resident for 11 years, has traveled all over the world, covering such stories as the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the breakup of the Soviet Union and the famine in Ethiopia.
He lives in Phinney Ridge with his wife, Jana, and their daughters, Ema, 9, and Claire, 4.
"[Seattle] was a place that I always wanted to live," Daniel Sheehan said.
"This has been a great neighborhood," Jana Sheehan agreed. "It has the appeal, and we love the sunsets."
The couple met in Prague, where Jana lived at the time. They took a late honeymoon last year to Paris.
"All we did was take pictures the whole time," Jana said.
Capturing images
Daniel Sheehan has been working in photography since he started on the college newspaper at City University in New York while studying anthropology. While pursuing master's degrees at Ohio University he interned at the Tampa Tribune.
He also taught photography for more than two years in Malaysia through the Peace Corps.
He regularly accepts assignments from such publications as Newsweek, Business Week, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, People magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
He also has completed a number of corporate assignments for Ama-zon.com, Alliance Capital, Encompass, Getty Images, Microsoft and Starbucks.
For about a decade, Sheehan has photographed a number of jazz musicians on the Seattle scene for the monthly Earshot Jazz magazine.
Also, for the last few years, he has accepted a limited number of commissions to document wedding celebrations. On average, he photographs about 20 weddings per year, in the summertime.
Sheehan is planning to publish a selection of these in a forthcoming book on weddings.
"I like seeing something and then capturing it and sharing it with other people," Sheehan said.
He takes photographs in both color and black-and-white, as well as digitally and with film.
"It's about the picture; it's not really about the medium," he said.
For 10 years, until 1995, Sheehan worked at New York Newsday. In 1989, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of war in Afghanistan and a devastating earthquake in Armenia. He and several colleagues were honored with the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for local news, for their coverage of the fatal crash of a New York City subway.
His work has also been recognized with awards from the Society of the Silurians, the Florida and New York State Associated press associations and the National Press Photographers Association.
Most recently, Sheehan has taken an interest in taking panoramic photographs.
A sense of beauty
The Sheehan home is full of many photographs - that of Sheehan's and other photographers' - that they've collected over the years.
"We have all of these great photographs around the home, and it influences [our children]," Jana Sheehan said. "They get a good visual sense of what is beautiful."
She noted that one her favorite photographs of her husband's is a black-and-white shot of the Columbia River.
"Everybody takes pictures, but not everybody can take beautiful photographs," she said.
Daniel Sheehan's photos have been on display in Crown Hill and Ballard. Some of his photographs are currently on display at the Triple Door, 216 Union St.
For more information about Daniel Sheehan's work, visit www. danielsheehan.com.
Jessica Davis can be reached via e-mail at needitor@nwlink.com.
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