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Amy Leigh Daniels
Amy-Leigh Daniels (born 1993) is a South African photographer, exhibition and project co-ordinator who was born and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Her work focuses on social change and photography as a language, as well as the development and promotion of South African Photography.

Early Life
Born and raised in the South of Johannesburg, she is the second of four siblings. Daniels graduated from the Advanced Programme in Photography at the Market Photo Workshop in 2012 and has since come back to the industry to continue her passion of promoting South African and African visual culture.

Career
After completing the Foundation Course, Intermediate Course, and Advanced Programme in Photography at the Market Photo Workshop,

she relocated to Cape Town during which time she worked as a photographic intern doing research, media relations and communications.

Daniels worked in corporate for a few years at Mutual financial Analysts but felt that her path needed to be in the visual arts. She moved back to Johannesburg in 2015 and began working at her alumnus the Market Photo Workshop as General Assistant. She managed the Against Time Exhibition which is a project of the Tierney Fellowship celebrating its 10 year anniversary with the Market Photo Workshop, University of Witwatersrand and hosted at the 10th edition of the Recontres De Bamako.

In her current position as the Coordinator of Photo: she has worked on projects in association with the Goethe-Institut, Open Society Foundations, Aperture (magazine), Arts on our mind,  Goodman Gallery, Stevenson Gallery

Daniels has recently coordinated various projects of Photo: including; democraSEE - a new award for Southern African Photography, 10:10 platforms, the Survey and interactive digital map for Photography training and learning Initiatives on the African continent and the exhibitions: ‘Five Photographers: A tribute to David Goldblatt’ (Johannesburg, Maputo, Lesotho, Makhanda, Durban and Mali; 2018-2019) and Cities and Memory (Denmark 2016).

Previous exhibitions include: Resist(e) (France, 2017) and assisted with the coordination for Against Time – A group exhibition as part of the Bamako Biennale in Mali, 2015.