Daniel Forster was born on Valentine's Day, 1948 in Murten, Switzerland. After an apprenticeship in a photo studio in Berne, he became a freelance photographer in 1974 and has since covered nine America's Cups and ten Olympic Games, one of them the Winter Games in Calgary.

His photographs appeared in every major Yachting magazine in Europe, the USA, New Zealand, and Australia. His Website, www.yachtphoto.com, averages 20,000 visits a day during big events. The America's Cups became stepping stones in his career: In 1986/87 TIME magazine sent him for five months to Perth, Australia and used his picture of winner Dennis Conner on the February cover.

In 1988 Daniel moved from Switzerland to Middletown, Rhode Island, USA to be closer to the Sea! In 1992 Daniel was the official photographer for Bill Koch's America3 team, which successfully defended the America's Cup, and in 1995 he photographed the "Women's Team plus One" quest for the America's Cup defense. Another of his photographs on the TIME magazine cover celebrated Team New Zealand's Victory in 1995!

In 1999/2000 he spent the shortest five months of his life reporting about the America's Cup in Auckland, working for Young America. 2002/2003 meant another five month in Auckland documenting Dennis Conner's STARS & STRIPES challenge. Maxi yacht owners like Bill Koch, MATADOR, Larry Ellison, SAYONARA and Jim Dolan, SAGAMORE, have commissioned Daniel, to document in book format their yacht's participation at major sailing events.

In 2001/2002 he worked with "illbruck Challenge" to document their victorious global circumnavigation during the Volvo Ocean Race. Not a new job either; it is his third time doing all the stopovers for a client.

In 1986 he did the Uruguay to England leg on board the winning UBS Switzerland as a crewmember. Now Daniel is one of the official photographers in charge of the Rolex Yachting events. Which means covering events like the Rolex Miami Olympic Class regattas, St. Thomas, New York Yacht Club events, Rolex Fastnet Race, Rolex Baltic Regatta, Big Boat Series presented by Rolex in San Francisco, Rolex Swan Cup, Rolex Middle Sea Race and Rolex Sydney Hobart Race.

This hectic schedule still leaves some time for a Cap Horn rounding, January 2004, and regular reporting from the Gotland Runt regatta. Daniel Forster now lives in Jamestown, just across the bridge from Newport, Rhode Island, USA. During his off time he goes fishing with his daughter Daphne.