Daniel Alexander

Profession

Programme Director, Photography

College

London College of Communication

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Staff

Biography

Daniel Alexander is an educator, visual practitioner and researcher, Programme Director of the Photography programme and a Reader in Expanded Photographic Practice.

Daniel has extensive teaching and course leadership experience from working at Central Saint Martins, the University of Gloucester, the University of Portsmouth and London South Bank University.

Daniel holds a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins and an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from London College of Communication.

Daniel’s practice based research uses photography, moving image, 3D scanning and other expanded imaging technologies in the creation of long form projects, disseminated through exhibitions, short films and books.

Previous research has explored the role the image plays in commemoration and memorialisation in projects including Brains: The Mind as Matter, commissioned by and exhibited at the Wellcome Collection and When War is Over, exhibited internationally and published as a monograph by Dewi Lewis Publishing.

Scales of Resistance, a film made in collaboration ScanLab Projects and a team of surface chemists and microbiologists from the University of Nottingham developed methods for visualising scientific data gathered by different ‘seeing’ machines at the different stages of the study and prevention of antimicrobial resistance.

Daniel's current research focuses on the social, cultural and political use of the vertical perspective in photography and imaging.

Daniel is the owner and creative director of Ottoby press and collaborates with artists, curators and photographers on the design and publication of distinctive book projects.

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