Danial Shah is an independent documentary photographer and filmmaker from Pakistan currently based in Brussels. He is interested in issues related to human condition and the environment they interact with. He works on commission and on editorial assignments.

Publications

Danial's work has been published in ,The New York Times, The Times London, The Daily Telegraph,  Dawn (Pakistan), Herald (Pakistan), Express Tribune Magazine (Pakistan), The Wire (India), Scroll.in (India), Himal SouthAsian (Nepal), Dawn Urdu (Pakistan), and Trek&Mountain (UK). His work is represented by Getty Images. Please refer to the publications page for more.  His work has also been featured on TED blogs. 

Public Speaking

Power of Visual Storytelling
TEDx Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

 

Awards

  • Hindu Kush Himalaya Photo Essay 2nd Prize (December 2017), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal

  • Sustainable Journalism Award (November 2017), Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan

Books

Academia

Danial has taught basic and advance courses of photography and storytelling as a visiting faculty at different universities in Pakistan including department of Visual Studies and Media Studies at University of Karachi, department of Media Studies at Institute of Business Management, Karachi (IoBM) and department of visual studies at FC College, Lahore. He has conducted photography workshops at University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. 

He holds a joint-masters degree in Documentary Film Direction from DocNomads in Portugal, Hungary and Belgium and a diploma in Documentary Film from University of California, Los Angeles.  Currently he is pursuing his artistic PhD at Sint Lucas School of Arts and University of Antwerp, Belgium.

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