Photographer, documentarian, and digital storyteller Daniel Meadows (b. 1952) has spent a lifetime recording British society, challenging the status quo by working in a collaborative way to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life through pictures, audio recordings, and short movies.

He is best known for his 1973-74 journey around England in the Free Photographic Omnibus when he traveled 10,000 miles in a converted double-decker and made 958 portraits in "free studio" sessions on the streets of 22 different British towns and cities. This is a project he revisited in the 1990s, photographing again some of the subjects of those portraits for his widely published series National Portraits: Now & Then.

His pioneering community storytelling project BBC Capture Wales (2001-08) encouraged many hundreds of people across Wales to embrace the arrival of the digital age in pop-up workshops by making their own two minutes of TV, framing their memories and pictures into digital stories, "multimedia sonnets from the people". Capture Wales won a BAFTA Cymru in 2002.
Meadows taught the documentary photography course with David Hurn in Newport(1983-94); also photojournalism (1994-2001) and digital storytelling (2000-2012) at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies where he also completed his PhD (2005). In the 1990s he taught photojournalism workshops in the emerging democracies of eastern Europe, also in India and Bangladesh. After 2000 he traveled repeatedly to Australia and the USA lecturing about his pioneering work in participatory media.

Selected Books:
Living Like This – Around Britain in the Seventies (1975) https://www.setantabooks.com/products/living-like-this
Nattering In Paradise – A Word from the Suburbs (1987)
National Portraits – Photographs from the 1970s (1997) https://www.setantabooks.com/products/national-portraits
The Bus – The Free Photographic Omnibus 1973-2001 (2001)
https://www.setantabooks.com/products/the-bus-the-free-photographic-omnibus-1973-2001
Café Royal: https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/search?q=meadows

The Daniel Meadows Archive was acquired by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in March 2018.

Daniel Meadows
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Digital Literacy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-15717619

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