Daniel Wheeler

Daniel Benjamin Wheeler is a British journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. He was born in 1988 in Stockport, England. Daniel's work focuses mainly on armed conflict and human rights issues and has covered topics including child labour in Sierra Leone, women's rights in Afghanistan, the fight against ISIS in Iraq, the civil war in South Sudan, and child marriage in Syrian refugee camps. His work has been widely published by the international media outlets such as the BBC, Sky News, Bloomberg, and El Pais. In May 2021, his short documentary film, Stressed: A Pandemic of Fear, highlighting the alarming rise in stress levels amongst displaced children in the Middle East due to COVID-19, was awarded the Grand Prix at the World Health Organization's Health for All Film Festival.