Daniel Alexander is a photographer, designer, and film maker based in London.

In his photographic and film making practice Daniel works on large scale documentary projects for book, museum and online dissemination.

Projects have included work for the exhibition Brains: The Mind as Matter at the Wellcome Collection, the international collaborative project 1day6cities, and When War is Over, a project exploring the ongoing commemoration of the 1.7 million Commonwealth War Dead. When War is Over was published by Dewi Lewis Publishing in Feb 2016 and exhibited at Contact Photography Festival in Toronto in 2018. In 2019 Daniel created the film Scales of Resistance, the outcome of a research collaboration with scientists at the University of Nottingham. The film visualises antibiotic resistance and contextualises the research that is being done to help combat this.

As a designer Daniel runs Ottoby Press, a design and publishing company that works with artists and photographers on book projects. Recent projects include the book Crowd, created for Simon Terrill’s 2019 exhibition Crowd Theory at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Victoria, Australia, Constructed Redware, created for Amanda-Sue Rope, and With Monochrome Eyes a book to accompany the 2020 exhibition of the same name at the Borough Road Gallery.

Daniel is currently mA photography course leader and Reader in Photography at London College of Communication, University of the arts london. He has previously held the post of associate professor and course leader at london south bank university and senior lecturer in Photography at Central Saint Martins and at Portsmouth University.