Daniel is an American cinematographer best known for the breakout Netflix musical drama A Beautiful Life, a Global #1 movie on Netflix (June 2023) and featured in the U.S. Top 10. It has garnered more than 50-million viewing hours to date. He is also known for While We Live, nominated for Best Picture in Denmark’s 2018 Academy Awards and the martial arts thriller The Other Side for which Daniel won an Emerging Cinematographer Award.
Born and raised in Oakland, CA, Daniel currently lives in Los Angeles where he honed his eye operating camera on the award-winning NBC series This Is Us, and on the lighting crews of Star Trek Into Darkness, Django Unchained and Mad Men. He brings the same level of passion to projects at every scale. When he’s not shooting, you can find him at the ballpark or at his hometown speakeasy movie theater.