About
Jade is a freelance director, photographer, and filmmaker working in commercials, social, and branded content, often with a focus on sports and community.
Jade brings their own artistic ideas, documentary perspective and a creative flair to each piece of commissioned work. A new talent in commercials, their first football film was shortlisted at the Shiny Awards and was featured in a Directors Showcase at the APA for their first Football Ad.
Open to working with production companies, they are currently a Freelance Director on open rosters in the UK with Visionaries, Papaya Films, Annex and CZAR in Belgium.
They have been regularly pitching and receiving briefs trying to win that opportunity to break through from social content.
This year Jade had their first photography exhibition which was featured as August's Dazed Art shows to leave the house for Pride of Britain that included Darkroom Handprints, Painting and a 3 minute Film.
Companion Artists now represent Jade for photographic commercial commissions for new clients. Alongside Jade is working on their first photography book with Studio Small to be published 2026.
Contact@Jadedaniellesmith.com
Instagram/Jadesm1th
Previous Clients:
Adidas, Adobe, Agent Provocateur, Kappa, Nike, Timberland, Lucozade, Puma, Xero,
Features:
Gay Times, Amateur Photographer, Fujifilm, The Modern House, Portrait of Britain, Fotofilmic, Numero, Notion, Man About Town, BoysbyGirls, Metal, Fucking Young, Rain, Client Magazine, Vanity Teen, Dazed Digital
Education:
Ways into Playwriting: City Lit (2026)
Six Months Episodic TV Scriptwriting: Life in a Story (2024-2025)
Introduction to Scriptwriting: Life in a Story (2024)
BA Contemporary Photography:
Southampton Solent University (2013)
City and Guilds Photography Level 1 Evening Course: Tresham College (2008)
Awards and Prizes:
FotoFilmic Photographic JRNL 22 (2024)
Fujifilm Life As We See It, Shortlist
Fujifilm House of Photography (2024)
Shiny Awards New Directors Talents, Shortlist, (2022)
APA Under-Represented Directors Showcase (2022)
Fujifilm IWD Top Talents to Follow (2020)
British Journal of Photography Portrait of Britain,Shortlist (2019)
Fujifilm Student Photographer of the Year, Curators Choice Award, Finalist (2013)
Southampton Solent Enterprise Photography Graduate Award(2013)
People of Print New Talent Graduate Picks, Finalist (2013)
Solo Exhibitions:
Pride of Britain Photobook Cafe, London, (2025)
featured on Dazed August shows to leave the house for
Group Exhibitions:
The Visionaries, All is Joy, London, 2025
Fujifilm House of Photography,
Group Show, London , (2024)
Then & Now, Winns Gallery, London (2022)
Portrait of Britain, Shortlisted, British Journal of Photography Exhibition, London (2019)
Contemporary Photography, Southampton Solent Group Show, The Print Space, London (2013)
