Daniel Boetker-Smith is the Director of Australia's Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) - the country's leading photography institution. He is responsible for managing the creative, curatorial, funding, commercial, partnerships, philanthropy, and business direction of the CCP.
Daniel has curated exhibitions with leading artists in Australia and internationally - for eg. Ying Ang, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Omar Victor Diop, Odette England, Laura El-Tantawy, Seiichi Furuya, Gauri Gill, Todd Hido, Zhang Kechun, Kensuke Koike, Pixy Liao, Dana Lixenberg, Max Pinckers, Izabela Pluta, Raphaela Rosella, Mariela Sancari, Alec Soth, James Tylor, Vanessa Winship, and many others.
Daniel is also an educator, writer, publisher, and photographer. Daniel specialises in writing about photography, narrative, photobooks, photo-novels, and the image in printed form. He is a regular writer/contributor to the British Journal of Photography, FOAM Magazine, GUP Magazine, European Photography, Voices of Photography, Vault, Photoeye, Paper Journal, Heavy, Source, and other Australian and international publications - and has published over 50 articles, interviews, and reviews.
Daniel is the Director of the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive, a not-for-profit library of self-published and independent photobooks. Daniel regularly speaks at festivals and symposia internationally on the subject of photobooks, photographic publishing, & self-publishing in the Asia-Pacific area.
Daniel is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor/Fellow in the School of Art at RMIT University in Melbourne. He has previously taught and guest lectured at Universities and Institutions in New Zealand, UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands, Malaysia, and Singapore. Between 2014-2022 Daniel was Dean of Faculty at Photography Studies College (Melbourne), the only dedicated photography educational institution in Australia (est. 1972), where he coordinated all the educational, teaching and learning, quality, regulatory, registration, industry and partnership programs. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 Photography Studies College was ranked the number one photography course in the country. He has previously held positions as Head of Photography at the University of Chester (UK), and Course Leader/Associate Professor at the University of Gloucestershire (UK).
Daniel is also the Head of the Peer Review Panel for OVER: The Critical Journal of Photography and Visual Culture, published by Photo Ireland. He has been a judge at numerous international and national photographic competitions including the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023. He is also a selector/nominator for the Singapore International Photography Festival, Prix Pictet Prize, World Press Photo, and other international competitions. He was previously the Managing Editor of Australia's oldest photography journal, Photofile, published by the Australia Centre of Photography.
Daniel's photographic work has been shortlisted for the Substation Art Prize, the Bowness Photography Prize, the Centre for Contemporary Photography’s Documentary Photography Award, and the Ulrick/Schubert Photography Prize.