She is a graduate of religious studies at the Jagiellonian University and of a school of photography, a talented portrait photographer. She has cooperated with the weekly "Tygodnik Powszechny" and the Znak and Wydawnictwo Literackie publishing houses since 1992. She cooperated with the monthly "Kino" for many years, she has also published in "Allgemeine Zeitung".

If by seizing the moment one can make candid photographs, then Danuta Węgiel's portraits are certainly not that. However, if candidness also signifies reverie and unostentatious but thorough search for the essence of the subject, then no other photograph is more natural and what emanates from them pervades the surroundings. Her portraits show Stanisław Lem's auto-irony, professor Jacek Woźniakowski's deep insight, Olga Tokarczuk's feminine warmth, and the witty goodness of Marian Stal. Looking at these photos, which are not contrived but rather discovered, we become a part of them.