Take your content in a bold new direction

Expectations for engaging content have never been higher. At the same time, there are unparalleled opportunities to connect ideas and knowledge with highly engaged global audiences. But it’s increasingly challenging to grab and hold their attention. 

I offer strategic communication, creative direction and production across video and photography. Working with clients to understand their engagement challenges, I devise and execute creative solutions to achieve your goals.

Working together towards your success, I specialise in content and communication for education, research and innovation.

  

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Transcend expectations of corporate marketing to take audiences on a cinematic voyage with inspiring content.


Authentic stories emerge from the collaborative relationship I develop with my clients and creative partners.


Visual communication and creative direction that grabs attention and stops the scroll.

Creatively translate research to engage and inspire, and connect with high value audiences to achieve research impact.


Thought leadership to engage and connect with the right people.


Express visions of the future with brand campaigns that get beneath the surface, to the heart and soul, and bring purpose to life.

Frozen frames

Borrowing words from Jean-Paul Sartre, “The photograph leaves me so unaffected that I do not even form an image.”* That’s the challenge—in a world of image abundance—to create photos of meaning.

The philosophical foundation of my portrait photography is rooted in the seminal works of Sontag, Barthes and Flusser. Basically, photographs should say something. And when a photo speaks, your audience answers.

Really, the goal of most creative content is to start a conversation with somebody to fulfil a purpose. Spark curiosity; awaken something; convey a message. A portrait or profile pictures shouldn’t be treated any differently.

* This quote was taken from Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, the original quote from Sartre’s The psychology of imagination isn’t quite so succinct:  “the photograph leaves me so unaffected that I do not even form an image. The photograph forms but a vague object and the persons depicted in it are well constituted as persons, but simply because of their resemblance to human beings, without any particular intentionality.” It is this intentionality we must focus on when creating images.

 
Alongside my creative practice I am a digital media researcher, speaker, and workshop facilitator. In collaboration with my clients, I design and deliver bespoke professional development training.

Working with audiences as diverse as AI researchers on YouTube; neuroscientists on TikTok; business academics and innovators raising their industry profiles; and entrepreneurs perfecting their pitch, my areas of expertise include audience engagement, creative knowledge exchange, and digital storytelling.

Sessions include, but aren’t limited to, Engaging for impact: connecting with industry and your community and Identity and impact: connecting with your inner creative self.

Clients have included The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and the Digital Media Research Centre (QUT); Tech and Policy Lab (University of Western Australia); Swinburne Innovation Studio; UTS Graduate Research School; and Griffith Business School.

“As public engagement in research becomes ever more pressing, Daniel delivered an excellent introduction where students could begin to consider their voice and how they engage with video content for research communication in the future.”
Sally Storey, ADM+S

"It was a really engaging and helpful session, and I have received lots of positive feedback from our participants"
Willow Macpherson, Griffith Business School

Check out an example of my professional development resources with the free series, Making better research videos.