Danielle Haim’s photographs are a body of work that documents a series of journeys. Her imagery depicts the contrasts between the old and the new giving the viewer a sense of history and modernism. Her passion for traveling has taken her to 50 countries. She believes that in a world where globalization is rapidly taking over, it is important to travel to places where there are still tinges of tradition in order to capture visuals that soon will only become part of our collective memory. Photography is the medium she has chosen to express herself and Asia is her geographic area of interest.

While traveling in Asia, Danielle was introduced to the spiritual practices that are so strongly present in the everyday life of the region. She began photographing the major Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim sites as they are rich in history and at the same time exude a calmness that is captivating and inspiring. The architectural grandeur of these places gives her rich material to explore and photograph and her images are always filled with patterns, symmetry, color and texture.

Danielle Haim was born in Bogota, Colombia, and raised in a Jewish household. Her Syrian grandparents and family members emigrated to many parts of the world including: United States, Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil and Argentina. Her parents both have artistic sensibilities and support expression and creativity. Her two sisters are artists, one a professional photographer and the other a visual artist. This family background gave Danielle a strong sense of appreciation towards the arts and travel and is the foundation and inspiration of her photography.

She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area more than twenty years ago and graduated with a B.A. in Visual Arts from New College of California. She later completed the course work in Graduate Film Production at San Francisco State University and also became certified in Early Childhood Education. She has exhibited locally including at the Zen Center and her dance photography has been featured in several issues of Contact Quarterly, a magazine about dance and in a book called, "Sharing the Dance, Contact Improvisation and American Culture" by Cynthia J. Novack. She currently resides in Berkeley, California and teaches at Buen Dia Family School in San Francisco.