Dan Dion is a freelance photographer specializing in portraits, performing arts, hospitality, and virtual reality. He was raised on a vineyard in Sonoma County, California, obtained a B.A. in Philosophy from Santa Clara University, and became the fourth generation of his family to live in San Francisco when he moved in 1992 to work on staff at The Holy City Zoo, the City’s oldest comedy club. He was the assistant photographer for the S.F. Giants’ 1993 season, and is the house photographer at Bill Graham’s Fillmore Auditorium, Warfield Theater, Shoreline Amphitheater, Punch Line Comedy Club, and Cobb's Comedy Club.

In 1998 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco with a collection of portraits of satirists. He has ongoing solo exhibitions of his comedian portraiture at Gotham Comedy Club in New York, The Punch Line in San Francisco, The Improv in Hollywood, and the Comedy Store in Sydney, Australia. In 2006 he had solo exhibitions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the CanWest Comedy Festival in Vancouver. 2007 will be the his fifth annual exhibition at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.

His work has been published in Rolling Stone, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, Rough Guides, Time, People, TV Guide, New York, Harper's Bazaar, Time Out, American Photo, San Francisco, Via, The Advocate, S.F. Chronicle, Guitar Player, Tower Pulse!,Wine Spectator, Nascar, World Interior Design, PGA, S.F. Weekly, and Salon. Clients include Pixar, Comedy Central, Warner Brothers, T*Mobile, Rhino Records, Fairmont Hotels, The Hard Rock Cafe, Monster Cable, The Mountain Home Inn, The New Lab, The Commodore Hotel, Mercury Records,the Red Cross, and Hastings School of the Law.

He has been profiled in the SF Chronicle, Z!NK Magazine, Santa Clara Magazine, American Photo On-Campus, the Zing! web site, and The Future of Art and Design. Radio interviews include Brian Mallow's "But Seriously...." webcast and "The Manversation" on ComedyWorld radio. In April 2006 he was featured in a segment on New York's WB11 news for his exhibition opening at the new Gotham Comedy Club.

He lives in The Panhandle and has developed identity problems from writing about himself in the third person.