2025

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today I’m flipping through the Public Ledger street photography zines — Vol. 1 and Maneto — featuring the work of some of Philadelphia’s most dedicated…

In this modern world, we’ve built up these notions of success that I find to be foolish at best. We’re constantly striving, chasing, and seeking to acquire the things we’ve…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Today we’re gonna be looking at my street photography from my hometown here in Philadelphia, covering work made between 2016 and 2021. These photographs document my…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Today I’m sharing photographs I made during a one-month trip to Hanoi, Vietnam in 2022. This trip marked a turning point in my photographic journey —…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Today we’re diving into my street photography from Mexico City, made over a two-week span in 2022 while traveling with my friend Matthew. Along the way,…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Getting my morning started here in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia—a beautiful fall day, leaves scattered across the path, squirrels darting between trees, and this canopy of light…

Chaos, Color & Humanity in the Heart of India What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Today we’re diving deep into my street photography from Mumbai, India — one of the most electrifying…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Hey, look — a rock. This morning I’m thinking about the idea of treating the world like a video game. Remember Zelda? You’d lift boulders, explore…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today, I want to take you behind the scenes of two photographs I made in Napoli, Italy, back in 2017 — both taken on the…

The sun still rises everyday and the geese are still flocking south!

Stop dwelling in the past or thinking about the futureTrust your intuition and move towards the horizonRight and left is merely an illusionEliminate the decisions and find your peaceExpect nothing,…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Check it out — a leaf. 🍃 So waking up in the morning and checking your Instagram first thing is the equivalent of taking a poop…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today, I want to take you through one of the most transformative experiences of my life — my year living in rural Zambia, Africa. These…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. This morning, I’m thinking about fear — and in the context of street photography, fear is a very normal feeling. The hesitation to press the…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. In today’s post, I’m sharing photographs I made in Israel and Palestine between 2017 and 2018 — a time when I was studying abroad at…

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind is one of the most essential texts on Zen Buddhism in the modern era. Compiled from Shunryu Suzuki’s talks to his students at the San Francisco…

What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. This morning I’m thinking about gatekeeping in street photography — and what that really means. In street photography, we love to set standards.We like to…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today we’re diving deep into my street photography from Baltimore — a city that shaped not just how I see, but how I photograph life.…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Just walking around FDR Park here in Philadelphia, and I’ve been thinking — or rather, not thinking — about why thinking is for idiots and…