Maja Daniels, grew up in Sweden where she developed an early interest in journalism and then photography. in her late teens she upped sticks and moved to Paris, ostensibly to learn French, where she continued her photographic studies at the Paris Photographic Institute, before then taking a degree in Sociology. At the same time she assisted the fashion and portrait photographer Peter Lindbergh who she continued to work with and learn from for several years.

Her work has included in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2011 and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. She participated in the 2012 Joop Swart Masterclass organised by World Press Photo and she won second prize in the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards. She was also selected as one of the 2012 and 2011 Magenta Foundations Flash Forward Emerging Photographers and short ...