Dan St. Andrei in an art director, photographer and painter specializing in advertising, art photography and graphic design. Dan is based in Lisbon, Portugal, and also have studios in Miami, FL and Bucharest, Romania.

There are moments when we ask ourselves about life purposes, meanings and motivations. There are moments when we ask ourselves about life, the way it is or the way we imagine life is. There are moments when we let free our imagination and we allow ourselves to dream. Sometimes it’s hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream. Dan is a dreamer. He lives through these moments, he is not realistic and like any other dreamer he is not perfect, but beautifully imperfect. In this order, he tries to turn the reality into another one, his own.
In his works we guess hidden symbols, born out of discreet and delicately expressed experiences, sometimes we feel a vague anxiety, other times it prevails the feeling of the unbound less, but looking carefully into this inner universe you realize that the author is searching for the meanings and hidden motivations that put our world into motion.
The approached subjects are collected from the daily life based on the principles anybody could be a saint, all saints, at the beginning, where ordinary people.
He tries and is able to find the light in each thing, being or situation that would otherwise go unnoticed. His photos attract and make you to look at them for a longtime until the moment you feel that things you’ve been certain about do not exist.
Sometimes you have the impression of an autobiographical narration on photographic support, you have the feeling that you step into a world known only by the author and now unveiled to you. The images are etched in the viewer’s memory and they sometimes reappear as a familiar experience, as something lived in times long forgotten.

“Life is eventually an eternal attempt to understand your purpose, to build up and mold, to grow and to define yourself … I would like to discover daily reasons to love myself.” Dan St. Andrei - BLOG