Dan Loh is an American photojournalist, educator, and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer whose career has spanned more than three decades. His work has encompassed breaking news, documentary and editorial photography, weddings, institutional photography, and higher education.
Loh began his professional photography career through internships with The Associated Press, Gannett Rochester Newspapers, and The Sentinel in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He later worked for The Associated Press in bureaus across the country, including Kansas City, Missouri; Boston, Massachusetts; Jackson, Mississippi; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a young photojournalist, he was selected as one of 100 participants nationwide for the 1995 Eddie Adams Workshop, a highly regarded workshop for emerging photographers. As a staff photographer with the AP, he covered breaking news, politics, and major national events.
As a staff photographer for The Associated Press, Loh was part of the team awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. He covered major national stories, including the political scandal involving President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky. During that period, he made a widely published photograph of Lewinsky with her attorney, William Ginsburg, during a rare public appearance. The photograph was later published in Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs and Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs, and featured in the documentary series The Clinton Affair.
In 2001, Loh contributed to The Associated Press’s coverage of the September 11 attacks. One of his best-known photographs shows the smoke-shrouded Manhattan skyline viewed across New York Harbor following the destruction of the World Trade Center. The image was later featured in Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror.
After leaving The Associated Press, Loh spent nearly two decades as an independent photographer working throughout New York and the surrounding region. His work included documentary, editorial, corporate, institutional, and wedding photography. Alongside his professional career, he taught photography at the collegiate level and mentored emerging photographers, emphasizing technical skill, visual literacy, ethical practice, critical thinking, and visual storytelling.
From 2021 to 2026, Loh served as College Photographer at Dickinson College, documenting the people, places, traditions, and experiences that define the institution. His photography supported academics, admissions, advancement, athletics, publications, communications, and major college events. He also contributed to visual strategy and mentored students and emerging photographers.
In 2026, following his tenure as College Photographer at Dickinson College, Loh returned to independent photography, launching a new family, portrait, and lifestyle photography service serving Central Pennsylvania. The transition brings his career full circle—from photojournalism and documentary photography to weddings, editorial assignments, institutional work, and a more personal focus on families, individuals, and the relationships that connect them.
Drawing on more than three decades behind the camera, Loh combines the observational instincts of a photojournalist with the experience of a portrait and wedding photographer, creating images that are authentic, natural, and emotionally meaningful. His work emphasizes genuine interactions, unguarded moments, and the small details that reveal personality and connection, resulting in photographs intended to remain meaningful for generations.
Born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Loh’s interest in photography began at Carlisle High School, where he first picked up a camera while working for The Periscope, the student newspaper. He also attended the Harrisburg Arts Magnet School, where he studied photography and developed an early foundation in visual art and storytelling. He later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts degree from New Jersey City University.
From photographing for a high school newspaper and studying photography at an arts magnet school to interning with newspapers and national news organizations, participating in the Eddie Adams Workshop, working in AP bureaus across the country, capturing noteworthy images across American cities, covering historic events, teaching in classrooms, documenting college communities, and photographing weddings and families, photography has remained the connecting thread throughout Loh’s career.
His work is grounded in a simple belief: photography can document experience, connect people, and preserve moments that might otherwise be lost to time.