Danny Awang

Chasing Stories, Journey into Video & Epic Highlights from the Year

A conversation with Danny Awang, a videographer and photographer whose year is basically built around race weekends, edit deadlines, and figuring out how to keep the story feeling fresh!

Danny takes us from filming skateboard edits in middle school to an early freelance chapter in Southern California (and the burnout that came with it), then into a totally random “marketing manager for bidets” era that somehow helped him level up his skills before jumping back behind the camera.

From there, everything snowballs. A road trip out West leads him to his first gravel race, cyclocross pulls him into the Mid-Atlantic scene, and a cold DM to Jeremiah Bishop opens the door to bigger projects and bigger weekends. We talk about what it looks like to actually spend time with athletes beyond race day, why the “before and after” moments are where the good stuff lives, and how he’s thinking about leveling up creatively when you’ve shot the same iconic races year after year.

We also get into a few epic moments like heading to the Tour de France Femmes with EF to help make daily YouTube episodes, the logistics of shooting a stage race, and the very real push and pull of travel.