Daniel Arnold (photographer)


Daniel Arnold is a New York City street, Instagram, and fashion photographer. His work appears regularly in Vogue and The New York Times.

Work

Arnold's work was initially distributed on Instagram, where he had 1,500 followers as of 2012. He gained visibility when a 2012 Gawker article about him went viral. The article's headline called him "the best photographer on Instagram," and described how he was banned from the photo sharing service. Returning to Instagram under a new account, Arnold attracted over 60,000 followers by 2014.
His work received increasing acclaim in mainstream publications, including MTV and especially Vogue Magazine. In March 2014, he sold over US$15,000 in print photographs on the first day he made them available. The New York Times profiled his street photography work, calling Arnold "the William Eggleston of Instagram" A profile in Wired Magazine named him "Instagram's ultimate street photographer," while The New Yorker turned over their Instagram feed to Arnold for a week to document activity on New York City subways.
In 2017 his work was featured in the documentary "Daniel Arnold’s New York" and a large spread in Vogue that examined life in Middle America through Arnold's work. In 2018, he covered the 2018 Women's March for Vogue.