Daniel Boetker-Smith

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 is also an educator, writer, publisher, and photographer. Daniel specialises in writing about photography, visual 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 also the Founder 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). He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Art at RMIT.