Maja Daniels / Photographer

26.11.2011

The Taylor Wessing Portrait price exhibition is now showing at the National Portrait Gallery. It is an interesting show and very nice to see Mady and Monette in the midst of it all.

Picture via

29.10.2011

The picture below from my project “Mady and Monette” has been selected to be part of Daniel Cooney’s 2011 Emerging Artists Auction. Daniel runs the Daniel Cooney Fine Art gallery in New York that specializes in contemporary photography.

The online auction runs from October 28th to November 11th, click here to have a look at the wonderful selection of images.

I’m very happy to be part of such a nice project along with lovely friends and photographers Kalpesh Lathigra, Spencer Murphy and Kate Peters who’s work I admire.

24.10.2011

This image from my series with Monette and Mady are todays Flak Photo, thank you Andy Adams!

Go to Flakphoto.com and see it here

03.10.2011

A portrait from my project with Monette and Mady was published in yesterday’s Sunday Times Magazine as they highlighted the upcoming Taylor Wessing Exhibition. Lovely looking spread.

02.10.2011

I recently made a website update with some new pictures from my project with my favourite Parisian twins Mady and Monette and it has resulted in a few webposts.

Click on the following links to see them :

Feature Shoot : http://www.featureshoot.com/2011/12/parisian-twins-photographed-by-maja-daniels/

Here :  http://hereontheweb.co.uk/maja-daniels-monette-and-mady/

Getaddictedto.com :  http://www.getaddictedto.com/monette-mady-inseparable-identical-twins/

Someplacesomething.com :  http://www.someplacesomething.com/2011/09/16/maja-daniels/

Powerhouse : http://www.wearepowerhouse.com/2126048/Maja-Daniels

22.09.2011

Aurelia Lange over at the Urban Graphic blog posted about my series “Into Oblivion”. I like the way she writes about the series :

“This locked door is significant in this series as many of the patients are regularly attempting to leave. Due to the symptoms of Alzheimer’s being memory loss and to regularly wander, the ward must keep a restriction in place. The door is a strong metaphor for Maja’s suggestion that the increasing dependency of the elderly population is a taboo amongst our society.

Amongst some haunting portraits, many of the photographs are cropped or do not include patients faces. The cropped images speak volume as they communicate less about the individual being photographed and more about the subject matter on a broader scale, by giving room for people to identify themselves within the context.

The low saturated pastel colours and the stark minimal environment creates a strange correlation to their existence as the residents’ memories fade, and personal possessions become less meaningful.”

Have a look at the post here : http://www.urbangraphic.co.uk/blog/m/maja-daniels.html

18.09.2011

Into Oblivion is exhibited as part of the Getxo Photo Festival (Spain) throughout the month of September. It’s the festivals fifth edition and it’s curated by Frank Kalero. Have a look at the installation pictures here

01.09.2011

Alison Zavos is running the great website Feature Shoot and got in touch after seeing my picture on Flak Photo. Have a look at her selection of my Christiania pictures here

30.08.2011

The portrait below from my Christiania project is today’s picture at Flak Photo – have a look here :

http://www.flakphoto.com/archives/6333_1646490288/355958

18.08.2011

This image below, from my ongoing project about the life of Paris-based twins Monette and Mady, has been selected for the exhibition of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at The National Portrait Gallery in November 2011.

About 60 prints were chosen out of more than 6000 entries so I’m happily looking forward to seeing it hang on a National Portrait Gallery wall.