Danny Burrows
Danny Burrows is photographer, educator and writer working in the field of documentary storytelling and portraiture. He is based in Deal, Kent, where his practice focuses on issues of social justice, community and the environment. His approach draws on technical skills learned as an assistant to a fashion photographer while his practice is informed by campaigning contemporary photojournalism that is honest yet empathetic with its focus and explores new methods of contextualisation and dissemination of photography so that it reaches audiences beyond the 'white cube'. During Covid, Danny enrolled in an MA Photography program at Falmouth University and graduated with a distinction in 2022. During these difficult years his work was included in the FORMAT21 MassIsolation Exhibition at the Derby Museum of Art, and selected by the National Archives to represent lockdown. He also completed projects on the martial sport of airsoft exploring themes of truth and masculinity which he self-published as a zine, and the loss of green space in South East London estates.
In 2015 he began a long-term project documenting the refugee crisis in Northern France, entitled ‘Indeterminate State’. The project was featured in The Guardian, The Express and Huck Magazine and photographs for the series were included in the 2017 Wells Arts Contemporary Exhibition, shortlisted for the 2017 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and featured on Magnumphotos.com. His next project, TOGETHER (A)PART, documenting the anbaptist Christian Community of the Bruderhof community, was published by Plough and received a Gold medal in the 2021 Independent Publishers Book Awards in the USA. Photo essays were published in the Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Photojournalism Hub, UnlimitedV.com and HUCK. It won a silver medal at the 2018 YICCA Contemporary Arts Exhibition, the KLP International Portrait Prize, and was awarded a Coups de Coeur de L’ANI at the 2019 Visa Pour L’Image, and a gold medal in the Leica AOP Open awards (2022), and was a finalist at the 2019 Prix Regnier Award in Paris. In 2023 Danny will independently publish the project as a limited-edition handmade book while continuing to work on new documentary and commercial projects.
