Daniel Owen is an American author and award-winning documentary photojournalist whose work has been featured in publications around the globe. He has been a contributing speaker for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Voices on Antisemitism" series following his work documenting Auschwitz survivors in Romania. His journalistic work focuses on subcultures, religion and traditional practices. He has collaborated with newspapers throughout the U.S. covering subjects ranging from U.S. presidential elections to python hunters in the Everglades, and has been embedded in long term projects covering everything from America's drug epidemic to Gypsies in Transylvania. He served as the Director of Photography for the Los Alamos National Laboratory before relocating to Eastern Europe with his wife and children. Owen is not a Biblical scholar, but a journalist. His approach to theology, therefore, is rooted in the journalistic process wherein ideological preferences are set aside and tested against the evidence of original source materials, and Biblical texts are examined in light of their Ancient Near Eastern context. To that end, he has spent nearly twenty years earning an informal education in the history, language, geography, culture and mythology found in and around the texts of the Bible. In his work, Owen seeks to deconstruct the lenses Christians use, often unknowingly, to filter the Bible through their traditions. His goal is to encourage believers to see the Bible as its authors intended it and, in doing so, know who God is and what he expects of each of us.