Biography:

Dan Reid was born with a passion for photography. That lifelong enthusiasm, combined with obvious talent and a healthy dose of sheer determination has seen him turn a passion into a highly successful career.

He started out his photographic career assisting on shoots for Sony Music with bands like Reef, The Manic Street Preachers and Macy Gray. It was this initial break that saw the quality of Dan's work being recognised in its own right and he soon became a regular contributor of images to DJ Magazine. It wasn't long before he scored his first front cover for the mag, shooting international artists the Chemical Brothers. 

Now many covers down the line, Dan regularly travels the world and shoots with stars ranging from Mylo to Kasabien and Mark Ronson. He's not turned his back on the dance world though. He remains one of the most respected and in demand photographers by that industry, the automatic first choice to work with many of the global scene's biggest players - John Digweed, Carl Cox, Paul Van Dyk and David Morales to name but a few.

He is frequently commissioned for press photographs with bands, DJs and producers, and has shot album covers for John Digweed, James Zabiela & Nic Fanciulli's One + One collaboration and for the Ministry of Sound owned Global Underground series. A long running relationship with equipment manufacturer Pioneer sees Dan capturing their sponsored artists live in action on Pioneer products at events worldwide.

His live shoots now extend way beyond the DJ booth and into the stadium, for performers including Lilly Allen, The Enemy, Lenny Kravitz and Natalie Imbruglia. Dan's summer '09 live work with Oasis at Wembley was used in the online advertising campaign for Liam Gallagher's own clothing brand, Pretty Green.

Dan is effortlessly comfortable with people wherever they come from and whatever they do, and always quickly manages to make the feeling mutual. This great ability to put people at ease creates the feeling of relaxed honesty that is captured in all his photography. With Dan the barriers are instantly down so that the images can really shine.

Dan Reid's photographs contain no pretence or ambiguity, but are all personality.