Background
Danuta Otfinowski was born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Danuta Otfinowski was born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Otfinowski received a BFA in 1977 from San Francisco Art Institute. Otfinowski received a MFA in 1982 from University of California, San Diego.
In 1980s Otfinowski was on a stipend from University of California at San Diego for graduate work in the visual arts. She worked as an instructor of photography at Grossmont College in El Cajon, California (1978-79), and as a freelance photographer in San Francisco (1977-78).
The photographer says of her work: "My photographs are about the relationship between the place and its inhabitants. ... I like to think of place in relation to its physical nature and its function. . . . The characters in my photographs are caught somewhere between the dictates of the place and their own humanness."