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Creative Boom celebrates Photography graduate Daniel Dayment
Monday, 8 August, 2022 — Arts University Plymouth graduate Daniel Dayment has been selected for Creative Boom’s Introducing 2022, an annual feature that will champion the work of 12 creative graduates each year as they enter the creative industries.
<p>Arts University Plymouth graduate Daniel Dayment has been selected for Creative Boom’s Introducing 2022, an annual feature that will champion the work of 12 creative graduates each year as they enter the creative industries.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Founded in 2009, Creative Boom is one of the UK's leading magazines dedicated to the creative industry. Daniel Dayment was selected as one of only 12 graduates from universities all across the UK for the magazine’s first <a href="https://www.creativeboom.com/introducing/">Introducing</a> feature. Read the full interview here: ‘<a href="https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/introducing-daniel-dayment/">Introducing: Daniel Dayment on living nomadically and enjoying the wild beauty of nature</a>’.<br /></p>
Elliot in his Micro Camper on Dartmoor, Devon
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-photography">BA (Hons) Photography</a> graduate <a href="https://www.danieldayment.co.uk/">Daniel</a>, who grew up in Totnes, Devon, is a documentary photographer whose work captures meditated states and moments of silence in the landscape, while also focusing his practice on the lives of people that live connected to the land. Through immersion and experiences, he photographs the intertwining relationship of humanity and nature. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Working on a number of long term projects, ‘Natural Progress’ is his grounding body of work, which explores individuals across the UK who have decided to live outside of bricks and mortar and in dwellings with a smaller ecological and financial footprint.<br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">Daniel spoke to <a href="https://www.creativeboom.com/">Creative Boom</a> about his greatest fears as a creative graduate, what he’s learned by living off-grid and about his hopes for the future. He was interviewed for Creative Boom’s ‘<a href="https://www.creativeboom.com/tips/advice-from-2022s-top-graduates-for-new-students-starting-in-september/">Advice from 2022's top graduates for new creative students starting this September</a>’ and we also spoke to Daniel in February 2022 about <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/posts/daniel-dayment-a-van-for-all-seasons">his work documenting alternative ways of living</a>.<br /></p>
Dave outside of his hand built cabin in Pembrokeshire
<p dir="ltr">Daniel, whose work has already been published by national newspapers including Mirror and Metro, is <a href="https://www.danieldayment.co.uk/info">available for commissions</a> worldwide.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/clearing">Clearing 2022</a> is now open, with time left to apply to study <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-photography">BA (Hons) Photography</a>, <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-commercial-photography-1">BA (Hons) Commercial Photography</a> or a range of other creative qualifications with us starting in September 2022. Call our Clearing Hotline on 01752 203402 to discuss your options.</p>
