Danielle Jackson

Photographer / Based in Bronx, New York

    Danielle Jackson is passionate about ideas, culture and community. She is the co­-founder of the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC), an internationally­-recognized gallery and educational space that uses... read on
  
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Danielle Jackson is passionate about ideas, culture and community. She is the co­-founder of the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC), an internationally­-recognized gallery and educational space that uses photojournalism and documentary film to create conversation on social change. Formerly, she ran the cultural department at Magnum Photos NY where she coordinated a range of exhibitions, lectures, and screenings for museums, universities, and photo festivals in more than a dozen countries. Her projects have been covered in The New York Times, Time Out New York,  Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Washington Post, and numerous international and trade publications. She is a graduate of New York University and holds a BFA in Film and Television and MA in Africana Studies.

At the Bronx Documentary Center she was instrumental to developing the organization’s vision, infrastructure, approach to community-based work. In its first three years she oversaw operations, development, marketing, and secured over $450K in support from the Ford Foundation, NYSCA, NEA, Leonian Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Kickstarter and corporate sponsors and individual donors. She also organized exhibitions and film screenings, and panel discussions with a notables including Sam Pollard, Albert Maysles, Nina Berman, Gary Knight, Peter Maass, Grace Lee, POV, and the "Central Park Five." 

At Magnum Photos, she coordinated a number of high-profile exhibitions including Josef Koudelka's Invasion 68: Prague, Rene Burri’s retrospective, Un Mundo, and Access to Life, which helped raise billions for free antiretroviral treatment.

Danielle has taught for Stanford University, Museum of Modern Art, and New York University. She has served on grant panels for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Brooklyn Arts Council, and has reviewed portfolios for the New York Times, Aperture, ASMP and Powerhouse.

In her spare time she is working on essays on urbanism and visual culture. Her observations can be seen on Medium and on Twitter at @makerthinker.