Allan Dinkoff grew up in Valley Stream, a working-class suburb of New York City on the South Shore of Long Island. Before going to college, Allan attended the Arts Students League of New York. He continued to draw and paint throughout college, graduating in 1977 with a degree cum laude from Drew University. Allan decided to pursue a career in law, and graduated in 1980 from Hofstra Law School; he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and the faculty voted him the outstanding graduate of his class.
During his forty-two year career as a lawyer, Allan was a partner and of counsel at prestigious New York City law firms and held senior in-house counsel roles at a number of global companies, including Merrill Lynch, where he was a Managing Director, and Amgen, where he was Associate General Counsel. He published and lectured extensively on legal ethics, class actions, and employment law. Allan has served on the boards of directors of the American Employment Law Council and Long Beach Opera in Los Angeles, California. He currently is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Hofstra and is enrolled in the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University.
Allan retired from the active practice of law in 2023, and has returned to his artistic endeavors, focusing on photography. He has studied with Sam Abell and taken numerous courses at the international Center for Photography in New York City, including classes with Robert Meyer, Harvey Stein, and Amy Touchette.
Allan is currently admitted to ICP’s year-long Documentary Photography Program, where he is pursuing a project documenting the impact of the Trump Administration’s actions against the federal workforce. Other long-term projects that Allan has pursued since picking up his camera in 2023 are documenting the multi-racial community of Huntington, New York, where he currently lives; street musicians in New York City and London; street portraits focused on people who are alone in the urban landscape; the abstract modern art found in the infrastructure of major cities; and the people of Nepal and Bhutan, who are caught in the transition of those societies to the Twenty-First Century (begun in 2024).
Contact info:
adinkoff@gmail.com
917-539-0787