Daniel Handal was born in Honduras and immigrated to the United States in 1994. He received his BS in applied sciences from Rutgers University and studied photography at the International Center of Photography. Handal’s work focuses on subcultures, relationships and how identity is linked to these connections. He has had a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library and has been shown in group exhibitions at the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Deborah Colton Gallery in Houston and the powerHouse Arena in New York, among others. He has been exhibited internationally at the Australian Centre for Photography and MKII in London. Handal has been awarded with residencies at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He currently lives and works in New York City.