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. In his curatorial positions Daniel has worked with the leading artists in Australia and internationally - Dana Lixenberg, Gauri Gill, Raphaela Rosella, Laura El-Tantawy, Pixy Liao, Max Pinckers, James Tylor, Zhang Kechun, Alec Soth, Izabela Pluta, Todd Hido, Vanessa Winship, Chloe Dew Mathews, Odette England, Seiichi Furuya, Kensuke Koike, Ying Ang, 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.
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 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 Studies 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.
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 is on the Advisory Panel for the PHOTO Australia Festival and has been a judge at numerous international and national photographic competitions including the National 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.
Before 2013 (when Daniel moved into senior academic, curatorial and institutional roles) his photographic work was shortlisted for the Substation Art Prize, the Bowness Photography Prize, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography’s Documentary Photography Award, and the Ulrick/Schubert Photography Prize.
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. In his curatorial positions Daniel has worked with the leading artists in Australia and internationally - Dana Lixenberg, Gauri Gill, Raphaela Rosella, Laura El-Tantawy, Pixy Liao, Max Pinckers, James Tylor, Zhang Kechun, Alec Soth, Izabela Pluta, Todd Hido, Vanessa Winship, Chloe Dew Mathews, Odette England, Seiichi Furuya, Kensuke Koike, Ying Ang, 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.
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 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 Studies 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.
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 is on the Advisory Panel for the PHOTO Australia Festival and has been a judge at numerous international and national photographic competitions including the National 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.
Before 2013 (when Daniel moved into senior academic, curatorial and institutional roles) his photographic work was shortlisted for the Substation Art Prize, the Bowness Photography Prize, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography’s Documentary Photography Award, and the Ulrick/Schubert Photography Prize.