Daniel James Homewood

Photography (MA)

Screenshot of website created in 2023 for research project Of Land and Tree which began in 2017. — Of Land and Tree is a research, community and advocacy project founded in 2017 and launched during my first year at the RCA in 2023. The project's core aim is to provide open access, verified research sources for the purposes of sharing knowledge and information related to the ongoing occupation and apartheid in Palestine. Coupled with this is ongoing photographic work created over many trips to Palestine since August 2017 and through friendships and networks that have been developed, OLAT seeks to share, collaborate with and promote the work of Palestinian creatives. Screenshot of original site created in 2023. Site has been developed in the interim.

Image of mixed media work - black and white photograph, paint and graphite pencil. — Documentation of mixed media work created during the grieving process after losing my oldest friend to cancer in 2022. Work was made using paint and graphite pencil over a digital print of a portrait I made of my friend Geoff at his wedding in the summer before his death. The text surrounding the image was the last text message I sent to him. Work now lost when on a Leave of Absence 2024-2025 during studio clearance and not being able to attend school to retrieve it in time due to financial restrictions. Original work 50 x 40 inches.

Installation view of lightbox for work '1054'. 1054 photographs of Ukrainian soldiers killed since the total Russian invasion. Photographs taken on day 1054 since the invasion began at the memorial in Independence Square in Kyiv. This work is from a larger body of work being undertaken in Ukraine since November 2024, with my visits to date covering November, December 2024 and January 2025. This larger work, titled Black Earth, at its core functions based on the idea of circular economy. I pay my friend I work with based in Kharkiv a fee of 250 Euros a day as a fixer and we redistribute the money to the individuals and organisations with whom we spend time working and supporting.

Scan of my contribution to a group publication created for the final project in 2025. — Scan of my contribution to a group publication created for final project in 2025. I have been working using a Xerox photocopier making political collage this year, much of which has been used as political posters and activism as street art. My source material for the collages emerged through the creation of a series of works utilising classified and declassified CIA, KGB and Israeli Security Cabinet documents and photographic reproductions from images contained within these files. The work has since developed to using images from Instagram screenshots, IRA manuals and propaganda posters and printed material dating back to 1901. Pictured here is a copy of an original print titled 'Liberty or Death', spray painted polaroid and typewritten text.

About

Daniel (b.1980) is an Irish photographer and political artist based in Oxford. His practice is anchored by personal development, materiality and the curatorial process. Relationships and conflict between people and ideas, the use and misuse of information and the connection to one’s homeland are themes he engages with in his work.

From 2016-2019 he made a series of photographs across Europe documenting the human displacement crisis, with images selected for inclusion in the 2019 Lande: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and Beyond exhibition at Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. One of these images was subsequently featured in Philip Hughes’ Storytelling Exhibitions: Identity, Truth and Wonder published by Bloomsbury in 2021. Since 2017, he has been developing a community and research based project in Palestine, with concurrent work now being undertaken in Ukraine since 2024. He was shortlisted for the Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award in both 2019 and 2020.

Daniel takes an expanded approach to photography, working also with image based collage and Xerography and will be completing the MA Photography programme at the Royal College of Art, London in August, 2025.

He is also a Patron of the Martin Parr Foundation.

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