Danny Goldfield

Artist and photographer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Danny Goldfield makes long-term portrait projects about people, place, and systems of human connection. His work has been exhibited internationally and featured in LIFE, The New York Times, CBS Evening News, BBC Worldwide, NHK Japan, The People’s Daily in China, CNN International, and other outlets.

His projects include NYChildren, portraits of one child from every country on earth, all living in New York City; To Live 10,000 Years, portraits of two people in each of the 50 United States who are at least 100 years old; and 1 to Infinity, portraits of people at every age, beginning at 1 and continuing as far as possible.

At MIT, Danny has worked across documentary media, emerging technologies, mechanical engineering, and performance. As a Research Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, he explored new forms of storytelling, including augmented reality, photogrammetry, and web-based documentary systems. He continues to work with MIT communities through photography, media production, teaching, and project development.

Danny is currently developing Numbers, a conceptual project at the intersection of software, media, and systems of human participation.

Before focusing on photography and new media, Danny spent a decade as a Production Designer and Art Director on commercial film and television productions. He holds an MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute Conservatory and a BS from Washington University in St. Louis.

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