About
director of photography · Los Angeles · New York · Atlanta
David Daniel is a veteran cinematographer who splits his year between Los Angeles, New York City, and Atlanta.
Currently he is the director of photography on the Amazon/Blumhouse series The Bondsman, starring Kevin Bacon, and Paramount+'s new series Wolf Pack. Last year he completed four seasons of The CW's Roswell, New Mexico for Amblin. Recently he has shot Legacies for The CW and the final season of Scream. He shot the complete series of Teen Wolf, and has done additional photography for AMC's The Walking Dead.
Mr. Daniel has photographed multiple features: The Swallow, directed by Kevin Koisch and Dennis Widmyer; Teen Wolf Movie, directed by Russell Mulcahy; Paramount+'s new comedy Pretty Stoned; the Rob Zombie films 3 from Hell and his controversial 31; Brad Coley's dark thriller Frank the Bastard; the comedies Speed Dating, My Girlfriend's Back, and Death of a Dynasty; the cult horror classic Leprechaun Back in the Hood; the Roc-A-Fella crime drama State Property; GM Chan's Not a Day Goes By; and the Wu-Tang-directed Bobby Digital.
He has done feature second unit work on the Dimension horror film Polaroid, the Lionsgate action film The Punisher: War Zone, the Universal comedy Blue Crush 2, Jet Li and Jason Statham's War, Terrence Howard's Pride, and Usher's In the Mix, as well as NYC location photography for Mary Harron's American Psycho and Billy Ray's Shattered Glass.
Over the years Mr. Daniel has photographed more than five hundred music videos for artists as diverse as Mariah Carey, Tupac Shakur, Nine Inch Nails, LL Cool J, and Ice Cube. He has also shot a series of films for the artist Sarah Morris.
He studied at Bard and completed his degree at NYU.