The Woman Behind the Lens

Danielle Domond

Danielle smiling behind her Canon camera, one eye at the viewfinder Danielle Domond photographing with a Canon camera and telephoto lens, in black and white

I am a published photojournalist and storyteller based in South Florida. My first byline landed in The Cobra Chronicle when I was sixteen, and Quill & Scroll inducted me before I could vote. Since then my photography has appeared in National Geographic, The Palm Beach Post, Caribbean National Weekly, and The Gleaner, and hung on the walls of the Island SPACE Caribbean Museum. In 2018 I represented my state as a National Youth Correspondent at the Washington Journalism & Media Conference, where a studio session at National Geographic headquarters with staff photographer Becky Hale produced my first published NatGeo image. I have been chasing that feeling ever since.

The civic thread runs just as deep. I interned with the Florida House of Representatives during the 2016 session in the office of State Representative Hazelle P. Rogers, now a Broward County Commissioner, and with the office of Miramar Vice Mayor Yvette Colbourne, arranged my own Capitol Hill meetings at eighteen, and have spent years inside Broward's Affordable Housing Task Force, where I built the coalition's website and was honored with its Champions of the Community Award. In 2026 I became a Founding Member of the Obama Foundation, the year the Presidential Center opens its doors.

By day I have spent six years as Marketing & Outreach Manager for a HUD-certified housing counseling nonprofit, where I manage the grant pipeline and direct campaigns for English-, Spanish-, and Creole-speaking audiences. I run operations for a second HUD-certified housing nonprofit, Gateway to Housing, and behind the camera I have carried my own workflow since 2015, from weddings and portraits to editorial assignments, owning every step from on-set direction through Lightroom, Photoshop, and the final cinematic cut.

And for twelve years I have been involved with and coached tennis and surfing with Special Olympics athletes, photographed for the Gold Coast Down Syndrome Society, and co-founded a peer-mentorship inclusion program that presented to the Florida Inclusion Network. Everything I offer through this studio, I have done in the real world first, usually with a camera around my neck.

National Geographic The Palm Beach Post Caribbean National Weekly The Gleaner Island SPACE Museum Obama Foundation · 2026 WJMC Correspondent Champions of the Community FL House Intern Special Olympics Coach Quill & Scroll
Danielle holding her camera in front of the wall of National Geographic covers at the magazine headquarters
The Origin StoryAt National Geographic headquarters, camera in hand, in front of the wall of yellow borders. A studio session there with staff photographer Becky Hale produced my first published NatGeo image, and I have been chasing that feeling ever since.
Island SPACE Caribbean Museum poster for the Through the Caribbean Lens exhibition featuring the works of Danielle Domond
On the Museum WallThrough the Caribbean Lens at the Island SPACE Caribbean Museum, curated by C.W. Griffin and Carl Juste, featuring my work alongside David I. Muir, Ryan Jiha, Gregory Reed, and G. Wright Muir.
"This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw

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