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 owe you a gogo dance hahah”
Gina Tran from Los Angeles, 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