Daniel Regan: On (self) care
In this episode we talk with Daniel Regan about (self) care. Daniel discusses how he approaches collaborative work with others and personal work about his own lived experience. He describes how he works with participants in collaborative projects to ensure that they are comfortable sharing their work, and how he makes decisions about sharing personal work about himself. Daniel explains that caring for one’s self is an important part of the process, and he describes the steps that he takes to care for himself during photographic projects.
What does photography ethics mean to Daniel?
“For me it’s about considering the impact that our images have on ourselves and on others. It’s not about going through the world just making because I want something, I need something, this is all about me. When we work with others, in particular, it’s about considering how other people that engage in our work feel. … So for me when I think about ethics, I think about how we care for the people that we work with and photograph, and we really think about what kind of experience do we want them to have?” (43:30)
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Daniel Regan is a photographic artist, producer, consultant, and non-profit Director working across the Creative Health sector. He specialises in exploring complex and difficult emotional experiences, focusing on the transformational impact of arts on mental health, building on his own lived experiences. His photographic work focuses on themes of wellbeing and brokers dialogue around often taboo topics such as grief, self injury, suicide, and racism. He also shoots commissions, produces and delivers socially engaged projects and provides consultancy. He is the Founder and current Executive Director of the Arts & Health Hub, a not-for-profit organisation that supports artists and cultural producers that are exploring health, wellbeing and what it means to be human. He is represented by Bethlem Gallery in London.
You can see his work at https://www.danielregan.photography