Dan Loh is an American photojournalist, educator, and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer whose career has spanned more than three decades and encompassed breaking news, documentary photography, editorial storytelling, weddings, institutional photography, and higher education.
As a staff photographer for The Associated Press, Loh was part of the team awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. During that period, he covered the political scandal involving U.S. President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky, producing one of the most widely published photographs of the affair—a portrait of Lewinsky with her attorney, William Ginsburg, during a rare public appearance. The photograph was later included 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. Among his most recognized photographs is an image of the smoke-shrouded Manhattan skyline viewed across New York Harbor in the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center. The photograph was later featured in the documentary series Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror, preserving a powerful visual record of one of the defining events of the twenty-first century.
Following his years with The Associated Press, Loh spent nearly two decades as an independent photographer working throughout New York and the surrounding region. His assignments ranged from documentary and editorial photography to corporate, institutional, and wedding photography. At the same time, he pursued his commitment to education, teaching photography at the collegiate level and mentoring emerging photographers. His teaching emphasized technical mastery, visual literacy, ethical practice, critical thinking, and the ability to use photography to communicate meaningful stories.
From 2021 to 2026, Loh served as College Photographer at Dickinson College, documenting the people, places, and experiences that define the institution. His work supported academic programs, admissions, advancement, athletics, publications, communications, and major college events. Beyond producing photographs, he contributed to the development of visual strategy and mentored students and younger photographers, sharing the technical, ethical, and storytelling principles shaped by his years as a working photojournalist.
In 2026, Loh began a new chapter in his career by establishing a family photography service serving Central Pennsylvania. The work draws directly upon the skills he developed throughout his career—photojournalism's ability to recognize authentic moments, documentary photography's emphasis on observation and storytelling, the intimacy and anticipation required of wedding photography, and the polished visual communication developed through institutional photography. His approach is centered on creating photographs that feel natural, personal, and genuine, capturing not only how families look, but the relationships, personalities, and moments that define them.
Born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Loh earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts degree from New Jersey City University. His career has taken him from the streets of major American cities and the front lines of breaking news to college campuses, classrooms, weddings, and family gatherings. Across these varied settings, his work has remained grounded in the same fundamental belief: photography has the power to document experience, connect people, and preserve moments that might otherwise be lost to time.