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A young man standing on a city sidewalk, looking at his reflection in a tall glass window, which creates a mirror image of him. The photo is in black and white.

KAIRO (Daniel Smith, London 1988) is a photographer creating minimalist urban landscapes and cinematic street scenes. His work romanticises the everyday, capturing fleeting moments in warm light and infusing them with a sense of whimsy and optimism, like friezes from a daydream. ☁️

Inspired by the calm found in spaces and moments in-between, Daniel explores a nostalgia often felt only in film. By stripping the world back to its compositional elements, his photographs uncover a quiet human connection; proof that minimalism can still feel deeply human.

Graphic yet soft, his imagery carries a signature sense of cinematic stillness that has been featured in collaborations and editorials with La Piazza Monaco and Relentless Magazine. His fine-art photography has been widely exhibited and awarded internationally, from London to Sydney, establishing KAIRO as a distinctive voice in contemporary visual storytelling.

Photography is how I move through the world quietly, attentively, finding stillness in the spaces most people overlook.