Some of the best contacts I have got in this line of work came from folks I have interviewed previously. That was how I met Daniel Adams, a young, modest, and extremely talented photographer who has one simple mission: to spark discourse through his art.

The interview was conducted via FaceTime. The desktop studio helped a lot. However, there was no easy way to record the conversation so I had to put him on speaker and used a voice recorder. 

Daniel wanted to use Zoom at first, but I don’t have a working webcam and I didn’t think that having a one way video conversation was fair. Do you know how expensive those Logitech cameras are?

Anyway, the interview was done a few weeks ago, way before the BLM movement began in the states. It was a coincidence that we focused on ‘Dark Skin Is…’ a photography project that focuses on the diversity, pride, and beauty of dark skin. And when Daniel does diversity, he really means it.

Check out the whole collection and see for yourself at his website here.

Some of the things that we talked about that didn’t get to print is how his father is British and he studied in the UK, but the subjects of his photography projects always have Southeast Asian roots.

In the story we also touched a little on how simple his equipment is. We talked about how he wished he could shoot with a medium format camera, but he has no patient for film. A digital medium format camera was out of the question. Those are too expensive.

He noted that his portraiture work tends to be sharp colourful and everything in the frame is in focus. He prefers it that way. On the other hand, when it comes to everyone else’s photography, he admires the bokeh and the muted colours.

If you want to read the full published story, click here.