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universities in the country. We had
this wonderful mix of people on the
same course – people who had
degrees from the poshest
universities in the same room as
kids who couldn’t get a job because
the steel works had closed – but
what they all had to realise was that
they could learn from each other.’
As soon as the writing was on the
wall that the course was to be
turned into a traditional type of
degree David Hurn left, followed
not far behind by Daniel, who went
on to become a lecturer at Cardiff
University, among other things.
Throughout his time at Newport,
and into his tenure at Cardiff,
Daniel became preoccupied by the
coming of what was being called
‘the digital age’, and what this would
mean for photographers and
journalists. Far from being fearful
of what lay ahead, if anything, it
was a chance for him to finally get
recognition for the kind of multi-dimensional stories he favoured.
‘I had always made audio
recordings,’ he says. ‘It was always a
frustration to me that you couldn’t
put the pictures and the sound
together unless, that is, you had
industrial scale equipment and a big
budget. It was really, really hard to
imagine how the old industry would
collapse and what would replace
that.’ At first, this approach was less
than popular with the students- Daniel describes how they
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