Binh Danh received his MFA from Stanford University. His technique includes chlorophyll printing, a process he innovated, wherein he embedded photographic images in leaves via photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on the daguerreotype process, with subject matters including American Civil War battlefields and the national parks.

His work has been included in important exhibitions at museums across the country, as well as in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The New York Public Library, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the M.H. de Young Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, the George Eastman Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. In 2012, he was a featured artist at the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia. He is represented by Haines Gallery in San Francisco, CA and Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, AZ. He is based in San Jose, CA where he teaches photography at San Jose State University.