Dan Biferie is an active photographer and has displayed his photographs in more than150 different exhibitions nationally, including 20 one-person shows. His works have been widely published and are represented in major public collections including: the National Museum of American Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; the High Museum; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University; and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. He has lectured and conducted workshops at numerous colleges and museums throughout the nation. He was awarded Individual Artist Fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs for his work in 1996 and 2008. In 2012 he received the Honored Educator Recognition from the Society for Photographic Education, Southeast Region.

He is Chair of the School of Photography at Daytona State College, where he has taught for the past forty-four years, and a Senior Professor at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies (a consortium comprising the Daytona State College School of Photography, University of Central Florida - Daytona Photography Program, and the Southeast Museum of Photography). Dan was founding director of the Southeast Museum of Photography (1978-1990), organizing more than 500 exhibitions, lectures, workshops and seminars during his twelve-year tenure, and served on many state and national arts panels.