DANIEL CASTRO GARCIA

Education
2004-2008
University College London, London (UK)

1999-2004
Magdalen College School, Oxford (UK)

Exhibitions
2020
In Transit - with Gohar Dashti (IR), Tanya Habjouqa (JO), George Awde (US/LB), & Stefanie Zofia Schulz (DE) Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland (until September)
In Transit - with Gohar Dashti (IR), Tanya Habjouqa (JO), George Awde (US/LB), & Stefanie Zofia Schulz (DE) Stadt Galerie Saarbrucken, Germany (September 2020)

2019
"In Transit" - with Gohar Dashti (IR), Tanya Habjouqa (JO), George Awde (US/LB), & Stefanie Zofia Schulz (DE)
Lunder Arts Centre, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA 
"In Transit" - with Gohar Dashti (IR), Tanya Habjouqa (JO), George Awde (US/LB), & Stefanie Zofia Schulz (DE)
San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, California, US (April 2018)
"In Transit" - with Gohar Dashti (IR), Tanya Habjouqa (JO), George Awde (US/LB), & Stefanie Zofia Schulz (DE)San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco California, US (January 2019)

2018
Stateless: Views of Global Migration, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, USA
'In Transit' - with Gohar Dashti (IR), Tanya Habjouqa (JO), George Awde (US/LB), & Stefanie Zofia Schulz (DE)Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon US

2017
Foreigner: Migrations into Europe 2015 - 2016 Wagner | New York University
'New Citizens' - group exhibition, Organ Vida Festival, Croatia
'Foreigner' Cortona on the Move Festival, IT
'Foreigner', solo presentation,TJ Boulting Gallery, London, UK
Month of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2016
Punto de Fuga, Paris, FR
Tiff Festival, Wroclaw, PL
Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney, AUS
Migration Museum Project – Call Me By My Name, London, UK

Awards
2019
Prix Pictet (nominated)

2018
Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award (Shortlist)
Foreigner: Collected Writings, 2017, Lucie Awards Finalist (Exhibition / Portrait Category)
FOAM Paul Huf Award (Nomination)
International Centre of Photography Infinity Award 2018 in Artist Book Category (Nomination)

2017
Tokyo International Photography Competition Winner
38th Annual W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund in Humanistic Photography - Winner
Magnum Foundation Fund, New York, USA 
British Journal of Photography International Photography Award 2017, London, UK

2016
Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards (Shortlisted), Paris, FR
Photoville: Emerging Photographer, Selected as one of ten emerging photographers, New York, USA
Bronze award in the Professional Book category for ‘Foreigner’.
The Observer – Photography Book of the Month, London, UK
Mack Books, First Book Award - (Shortlisted along 10 other titles), London, UK
PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Bronze award in the Professional Book category for ‘Foreigner’. Paris, FR
PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Honourable mention in the photographer category, Paris, FR, .

Books and Other Supporting Documentation
2017
Foreigner: Collected Writings
Newspaper providing alternative information from some of the world’s leading specialists on the subject of the European migrant and refugee crisis. Contributors include: Alexander Betts, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University; Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News’, International Editor; Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, members of Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths University; Aly Gadiaga and Madia Souare,

The newspaper serves as a continuation to, “Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015-2016”, and was released to accompany the solo exhibition at the TJ Boulting Gallery / British Journal of Photography International Photography Award 2017.
Self-published - print run of 1,000 copies

2016
Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015-2016
Divided into six chapters the book covers three aspects of this humanitarian crisis; Migration to Italy from North Africa, migration to Greece and through the Balkans from the Middle East, and the migrant camp in Calais known as ‘The Jungle’.
Using medium format portrait photography as a peaceful and empowering tool.
Self-published - print run of 1,000 copies.

Publications / Journals
The New Yorker
The British Journal of Photography 
The Observer
Frieze Week 
Splash and Grab Magazine
Ladybeard, Photoworks 
Polka Magazine
Photomonitor, PDN Photo of the Day
Vice Magazine 
Garage Mag
i-D Magazine 
Fantom Editions 
Hero Magazine
Guernica Magazine 
Huck Magazine
Actu Photo
Musee Magazine
It's Nice That
Vantage, Wallpaper*
La Voz De Galicia

Talks
2018
I Peri N'Tera: A Study of the Migrant Crises in Sicily, Italy - Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, New York, USA

2017
Wagner | New York University / 'Foreigner: Photoactivism, Representation, and the Refugee Crises', New York USA  
Cortona on the Move Festival, SP
Bournemouth University, UK
Oxford University, UK

2016
Photo London Art Fair: Publishing and the Photo Book: Shaping Modern Photography, UK
Edinburgh University, UK
Plymouth University: Photography Research Group (BA & MA Students), UK
London School of Economics, UK
La Fabrica, IT 
Photo London / Financial TImes Weekend Presents: Journalism in a Digital Age, UK

Assistant Director 
Daniel Garcia Castro has extensive experience as Assistant Director on over 50 commercials, short films & music video projects






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