DANIEL BOETKER-SMITH

Director
Centre for Contemporary Photography (Australia)

Daniel Boetker-Smith is Director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Australia's leading institution dedicated to contemporary lens-based art, established in Melbourne in 1986. Appointed in August 2022, he is responsible for the creative, curatorial, funding, commercial, partnerships, philanthropy and business direction of the organisation.

Daniel is a curator, educator, writer, publisher and photographer with over two decades of experience in the Australian and international photography sector. He specialises in contemporary photography, photobooks, visual narrative, photo-novels and the image in printed form. He is a regular contributor to the British Journal of Photography, FOAM Magazine, GUP Magazine, European Photography, Voices of Photography, Vault, Photoeye, Paper Journal, Heavy and Source, among other national and international publications.

Daniel is also Founder and Director of the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive, a not-for-profit library of self-published and independent photobooks from the Asia-Pacific region, which has been instrumental in connecting Australian and regional photographers with international curators, institutions and publishing networks. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at RMIT University.

Spoken Languages: English

Website: www.ccp.org.au