Maja Daniels / Photographer

25.06.2012

A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk in Brighton. The organiser Jim Stevenson published a little booklet in accordance with the event. It consists of a picture from the Mady & Monette project and an essay on photography and visual sociology written by Joanna Cresswell.

It is a very fine and foldable little object that exists in an edition of 40 examples. Click here to read a bit more about the talk and thanks to everyone who came, I was very flattered to have a full house!

Below are some images of the booklet.

04.05.2012

I am happy to be one of the selected UK winners of the 2012 Magenta Flash Forward price for emerging photographers. I was rewarded a special acknowledgment from all the judges as my work came in second place.

The winning photographer was Evgenia Arbugaeva and her lovely project “Tiksi”

Click HERE to see the full list of winning photographers.

03.05.2012

World Photo London is on at Somerset house with the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition. The Mady and Monette series is part of the winners exhibition and they are on the cover of the events programme. The winners book looks very good as well.

The opening and winners ceremony took place last week and the exhibition will be up until the 20th of May.

23.04.2012

I am thrilled to have been selected as one of twelve photographers to participate in the 2012 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass this year.

Click HERE to read about it and to see the rest of the selected photographers.

To participate in this Masterclass is a wonderful opportunity both to learn from experienced professionals and to get to exchange with a group of talented photographers. I am sure it will be a very valuable experience!

20.04.2012

Here is a little spread and text about the Mady & Monette project published in the April issue of Marie Claire in South Africa

17.04.2012

Attached below is the invite for World Photo London that starts next week. The Mady & Monette series will be on show at Somerset house from the 27th of April to the 20th of May.

01.03.2012

Here is a link to a short interview I did with Sharon from the Photoparley website about the twins project and about photography in general.

Click here to read it.

21.02.2012

To celebrate the first anniversary of Labyrinth Photographic Printing, the lovely guys running the lab have put together a group exhibition – “A year in development”.

The show highlights work that has been produced at Labyrinth throughout the year. It’s all shot on film and the prints are hand made.

The list of included photographers is quite impressive including  Zed Nelson, Ewen Spencer, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Tyrone Le bon, Léonie Hampton, Tom Beard, Laura Hynd, Kate Peters, Spencer Murphy, Ben Murphy, Ben Stockley, Laura Pannack, Ivor Prickett, Tina Hillier, myself and many more.

The show opened last week and it looks great. Also, it shows that film is still relevant and vital, and that photographers still invest in using film in a considered way.

Based within Four Corners, Bethnal Green, ‘A Year In Development’ will run from 16^th February until 1^st March 2012.

The Independent on Sunday ran a piece about the exhibition in The New Review and I’m glad they included my picture of Mady & Monette in their great looking spread.

Click here to read the article.

01.02.2012

Just back from a few weeks in Israel where I have been focusing on difficult and frustrating issues in east Jerusalem.

Coming home, I was greeted with some good news as I found out that I am a finalist winner of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards with my twins series.

(I am a finalist for the People category in the Photojournalism and Documentary section.) Read more about it here.

There’s also a nice piece written by Diane Smyth on the twins project in this months issue of the British Journal of Photography.  Makes it nice to be home!

09.01.2012

The twins project is featured in Vice Magazine’s January issue both in the UK and the US. The pictures are published along with an interview that I made with Mady and Monette over Christmas. Grab a magazine and check it out!