Background
Jordano was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan.
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Dave Jordano
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He attended the College for Creative Studies and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography in 1974.
Career
Shortly after Jordano moved to Chicago, and in 1977 he started a commercial photography business in Chicago. As a commercial photographer Jordano worked with Crate & Barrel, Starbucks, Nestle, Sears, McDonald"s, General Mills, Kraft, Kitchen Aid, Oscar Mayer, and Kellogg"son Jordano has been producing fine art photography since 2001, when he began work on Chicago Bridge Project, photographs of bridges and other industrial structures in and around Chicago.
From 2002-2003 Jordano turned his focus to the landscape and inhabitants of Marktown neighborhood in East Chicago, Indiana.
Between 2003–2007 Jordano completed his Articles of Faith project, photographs of small African-American storefront churches on the south and west sides of Chicago. Jordano"s next project was Prairieland, in which he explored the rural landscape of Illinois and its inhabitants.
2008: Marktown, city gallery of Chicago in the Chicago Water Tower, Chicago, Ohio. 2009: Articles of Faith, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Ohio, 4 April - 28 June 2009. 2015: Detroit-Unbroken Down, Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, 1–31 October 2015.
Participant of Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography.
