About D.Kwan

Formerly a photo­grapher and pri­vate in­ves­ti­ga­tor in the San Francisco Bay Area, Daniel Kwan wanted more in his life and de­cided to move to Los Angeles in 2008. He got on the wrong flight and ended up in Shanghai.

Intrigued by Shanghai, he stayed and was dis­cov­ered by a fac­tory owner who had never be­fore seen a Chinese face speak per­fect English. The cun­ning fac­tory boss coaxed Daniel Kwan into the boon­docks for a ca­reer mar­ket­ing ex­pen­sive plas­tic chalk lines to white folks, promis­ing that he’d re­turn the Chinese American to America in 2009 as a rich motherfucker.

Instead of be­ing sent back home, Daniel Kwan was re­leased back into Shanghai due to the sud­den eco­nomic cri­sis and the fact that no­body buys a piece of shit chalk line for $20.

Unfinished with Shanghai, Daniel Kwan found em­ploy­ment a month later in the in­ner city to in­ject his vi­sual de­sign mojo into a med­ical publisher’s mag­a­zines. Working with a rag­tag gang of odd­balls, he de­signed and laid out oph­thal­mol­ogy and cos­metic surgery pub­li­ca­tions for sur­geons across China and India.

Later that year, Daniel Kwan vis­ited his home­town in California for Christmas. In that brief re­turn to nor­malcy, he de­cided that he no longer wanted to look at im­ages of nee­dles in eye­balls and breasts sliced open for im­plants. He gave his dick of a boss his one month no­tice and plot­ted his next course of action.

Still un­fin­ished with Shanghai, Daniel Kwan con­tin­ues his ad­ven­tures there. He dusted off his cam­eras, put on his body­suit and mask, and now works on sev­eral se­cret projects which he may or may not re­veal in the future.

The ad­ven­tures of Daniel Kwan are chron­i­cled in his blog, The Adventures of Daniel Kwan. He may be reached here: dkwan.com/contact.


What peo­ple have to say about D.Kwan

“I ♥ Dkwaaannn“
Gina Tran from Los Angeles, CA

“hes hawwwwt.“
Andrew D. Ho from San Francisco, CA

“You’re D-​​Kwan, the coolest of the cool.“
Jing Fung from Sarcasm, CA

“It was fun work­ing with you, the most hand­some
photo­grapher I worked with so far.“
Victoria May from Stockton, CA

“i wanna roll with dkwan, he’s cool.“
Angelica Flores from Fremont, CA

“i <3 DKWAN
only some­times tho..
wen hes not takin coochie shots“
Gloriene from Newark, CA

“you’re too gang­ster!!“
Elmo Lee from MN

“Daniel is … not bad.“
Chesley T. from Fremont, CA