Dan Pels - VHT Studios

Dan has worked in the visual media industry for over thirty years. While attending college, he freelanced as photojournalist/photographer shooting sports, news, location portraits and weddings. Through ties to the print publishing industry, he became involved on the management side of the media business and was promoted to publisher of several leading business to business magazines including Commercial Building, Structural Engineer, CE News, Construction Equipment, American Machinist. The editorial and graphics teams of a number of these publications won national awards for editorial and visual excellence under Daniel’s leadership. In 2011 he left the corporate publishing world, choosing once again to focus on photojournalistic/photographic interests. Currently he is working on a book about Chicago’s Historic Pullman District, freelancing for a variety of Chicago area media outlets and doing environmental portraiture on consignment.