Dana B. Tatum (she/her) is a first-generation American photographer and artist whose work explores family, womanhood, natural beauty, nurturance, birth, mental health, fantasy and truth.

After a decade-long career in Jewelry, Dana returned to photography as a personal necessity following the birth of her first child in 2020, which coincided with the onset of the pandemic and lead to an experience with Postpartum Anxiety. She found that the experience of parenthood meant grappling with a constant state of transformation- simultaneous grief and delight at every new stage of development. During this time, she began photographing her child in earnest, driven by a growing awareness of the fleeting nature of time and a desire to hold on to the present moment. This impulse eventually extended to other families, and she now works with families of all kinds and in all stages of life to create meaningful photographs that she hopes will carry love forward as a lasting family legacy. During this time Dana also trained and worked as a birth doula, and is passionate about merging her love for photography with that of documenting and therefore honoring birth.

Her personal photographic work is an attempt to reckon with a fantasy of motherhood and her actual lived experience.