Danylo Demutsky was a legendary Ukrainian photographer and an experimental cameraman who filmed Two Days (1927), Arsenal (1929) and Earth (1930).

He was born in Cherkasy region in a family of a doctor, Nikolay Lysenko’s student and collector of the Ukrainian folk music. From his childhood, he was fond of music and dreamt of a conductor career. Fascinated by photography, he joined Kyiv society of amateur photographers Dagger.