About

Daniel Mooney was born in Glasgow in 1997, graduating from the BA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication in 2023. He learnt his trade in New Zealand through various assignments, commissions, projects and workshops with local communities.

Upon returning to the U.K., Daniel has been involved in exhibitions throughout London whilst most recently establishing the community driven darkroom collective, BRAW, during his studies - providing an affordable space for emerging photographers to work and learn alternative processes.

His work surrounds aspects of memory, loss, environment and disenchantment - the photographs each a memento mori. With a significant focus on home, Scotland, and the self, his depictions of the personal are maelstroms of memory, emphasised through his heavily process based work. Daniel uses the Wet Plate Collodion method, intrinsically embodying the people and places he photographs. The glass plates act as performers themselves, each laden with personal trace beyond the image, carrying the weight of photographic tradition. Embracing the inherent flaws within the method - scratches, streaks and voids - his chosen technique imbues the themes Daniel explores, intensifying the fragility and vulnerability of man and his environment.