Daniel Meadows is a photographer, social documentarist and digital storyteller. His work records British society, working collaboratively with subjects to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life through pictures, audio recordings and short movies.

Meadows was born in 1952 in Gloucestershire, England. He studied Photography at Manchester Polytechnic between 1970 and 1973, and began experimenting with photodocumentary projects during his studies, both independently and in collaboration with fellow student, Martin Parr.

After his graduation Meadows journeyed around England in the Free Photographic Omnibus when he travelled 10,000 miles in a converted double-decker bus and made 958 portraits in "free studio" sessions on the streets of 22 different British towns and cities, 1973-1974. Meadows stayed in contact with many subjects and contacts he met during this time. He revisited the bus project in the 1990s whilst completing a PhD at Cardiff University, photographing again some of the subjects of those portraits for his widely published and exhibited series National Portraits: Now & Then.

Inspired by Dana Atchley and the Centre for Digital Storytelling (CDS), Berkeley, Meadows pioneered the community digital storytelling project Capture Wales (2001-2008) for BBC Wales. Capture Wales encouraged many hundreds of people across Wales to embrace the arrival of the digital age in pop-up workshops by making their own two minutes of TV, framing their memories and pictures into digital stories, coined "multimedia sonnets from the people". Capture Wales won a BAFTA Cymru in 2002.

Meadows taught the documentary photography course with David Hurn in Newport, 1983-1994; also photojournalism, 1994-2001 and digital storytelling, 2000-2012, at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies where he also completed his PhD in 2005.

His work has been exhibited widely both in the UK and on the continent of Europe. Solo shows include Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA) in 1975, The Photographers' Gallery London, 1987 and National Media Museum Bradford, 2011. Group shows include Serpentine Gallery London, 1973 and Tate Britain, 2007.