Speaking
Keynote talks and lectures from an award-winning Australian photographer.
Dani Watson is an award-winning Australian landscape photographer, Hasselblad Masters finalist and Master of Arts (Photography). She speaks to universities, camera clubs, photography conferences and corporate audiences about photography, risk and building a creative life.
Keynote talks
Four talks on changing course, backing yourself and building a creative life.
Each talk can be shaped for a keynote, a panel or a workshop session, and tailored to your audience.
01
Changing direction: knowing when to walk away
Dani went from professional tennis to an award-winning photography career. This talk is about recognising when a path has run its course, finding the courage to leave it, and carrying the discipline of one life into the next.
02
Backing yourself before anyone else does
Nobody hands you permission to start. Drawing on the leap from sport to art, Dani talks about acting on conviction, handling doubt and rejection, and building the proof that you were right.
03
Building a creative life that lasts
Talent is only the start. Dani breaks down what it really takes to make a living from creative work: the daily practice, the business behind the art and the patience to play the long game.
04
The Slumdog Millionaire effect: nothing you live is wasted
Like the film, where every hard-won experience becomes an answer, Dani shows how the detours, setbacks and unrelated jobs in a career turn out to be the preparation for what comes next.
Teaching
University teaching and guest lectures.
Dani teaches photography at university level and gives guest lectures on landscape photography, fine art printmaking and the business of photography.
Want a sense of how she thinks first? Read the Journal.
Where Dani has spoken
- RMIT University University
- CIEE International education
- Camera clubs Community
- Photography conferences Industry
- Corporate events Business
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