Dana Gluckstein Samburu Girl, Kenya, 1985

Dana Gluckstein

Dana Gluckstein has photographed iconic figures including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Desmond Tutu, and Muhammad Ali, as well as award-winning advertising campaigns for clients such as Apple and Toyota. Her portraits are held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Her book, DIGNITY: In Honor of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the associated international museum exhibition, DIGNITY: TRIBES IN TRANSITION, now touring Europe, have received international acclaim. DIGNITY, in association with Amnesty International for their 50th anniversary, helped create the tipping point for President Obama to adopt the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In 2011, DIGNITY exhibited at the U.N. in Geneva in 2011. Gluckstein spoke at the World Economic Forum, 2013, in Davos, Switzerland on how art can impact change in the world. Gluckstein graduated from Stanford University, where she studied psychology, painting, and photography, and realized the power of images to shape consciousness. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.