Dan Berkovitz, Clouds on a Mission, photograph 16" x 20"

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 5-8:00 pm

The photographer will be at the Gallery on June 1, 2, and 30

Lost Causes & American Landscapes presents photographs with two distinct themes. Lost Causes displays images from the aftermath of two American wars: the Iraq War and the Civil War. With respect to the Iraq War, the exhibit presents portraits of leaders of the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein that were taken by Mr. Berkovitz while those individuals were held in captivity following the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by U.S. and coalition forces. This is the first time these portraits of officials, functionaries, and enablers in Saddam’s regime have been displayed publicly. On the domestic front, the photographs of civil war battlefields capture the interplay between the present and the past at these hallowed grounds, a dialogue that remains alive nearly 160 years after the armed conflict ended. The black-and-white images in American Landscapes reflect the contrasts between sunlight and shadow, mountains and valleys, ancient and modern, and human and artificial in our natural and man-made landscapes. 

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Dan Berkovitz

Dan M. Berkovitz is a fine art photographer. He regularly travels to the western United States to hike, bike, and photograph some of the most dramatic scenery on the planet and has studied landscape and portrait photography under award-winning landscape and rock album cover photographer David Michael Kennedy. When he is not hiking, biking, or taking photographs, Berkovitz is an attorney specializing in financial markets. He has served as General Counsel and then as a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and as General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in which capacity he was acting when he took the portraits of the high-level Iraqi government officials under Saddam. He currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland and works for a financial firm in NYC.

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