Rick Dahms (left) is a freelance photographer specializing in environmental portraiture. He was the fifth child born at the University of Missouri Medical Center. His father was a judge and all-american wheel-chair basketball player. His mother was an asthmatic marathon runner. As a boy, he had a dog that could count to 100 and play kick the can. When he was thirteen, he and his younger brother Tim ran a small pig farm in Wisconsin. His first car was a 1963 Datsun Bluebird. He’s been cleared by the FBI for Top Secret clearance. While in college, he made an estimated 20,000 pizzas. It was once announced loudly that he plays lead guitar worse than Neil Young. Yeah, so? He became a photographer shortly after dating one. He lives with his wife in a 100 year old farmhouse outside of Seattle…. with horses, goats, chickens, dogs, cats… the whole catastrophe. He still has a darkroom.
Client sampler: Chrysler, Adidas, Microsoft (Xbox, Halo, Kinect), Boeing, AAA, State Farm, Kroger, USAA, ESPN, Colliers, US Bank, Nvidia, Zymogenetics, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Forbes, Business Week, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, National Geographic, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, HarperCollins, Time, U.S. News, Cosmos, Oprah, Stern, Gourmet….
Former Chapter President of the American Society of Media Photographers and a member of Advertising Photographers of America, Editorial Photographers, BigShotStock, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and the American Marketing Association. He’s won a lot of awards and been nominated for the Pulitzer (2000) and Magazine Cover of the Year (2008).