bio — Danny J. Sanchez

Danny J. Sanchez is a Los Angeles–based gemologist and photomicrographer whose practice reveals the immensity folded into the infinitesimal. Mining the microstructure of gemstones, Sanchez employs custom optical apparatus, elaborate lighting systems, focus stacking, and near-geological patience to transmute mineral inclusions into images that oscillate between document and dream. His subjects are rendered as unknown terrains and astral expanses, collapsing the registers of the scientific and the sublime.

His works destabilize our sense of scale: a microscopic fracture assumes the scope of a nebula, a color flash becomes an atmosphere. Sanchez’s images, celebrated in publications and international competitions, resist simple categorization; they are at once empirical and ethereal, a reminder that wonder can be summoned from what is barely perceptible.

Email: mineralienphotos(@)gmail.com

Instagram: @mineralien