He is married and has a daughter and a son; they live in Coombe Hill, Surrey, England.
Dazeley was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen's New Year's Honours List, January 2017, for his services to photography and charity Dazeley studied photography at Holland Park Comprehensive (sometimes called the Socialist Eton)[3] and started assisting the photographer Peter Sowerby at Essex West Studios off Fleet Street, London in 1963.
His work has won awards from organisations across the world, including the Association of Photographers,[4] the Royal Photographic Society in the UK,[5] EPICA[6] in France, Applied Arts Magazine[7] in Canada, Graphis Inc.[8] in the USA .
In June 2013 Dazeley was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society, which is the highest distinction of the RPS and recognises original work and outstanding ability.
He has developed a number of imaging techniques in advertising photography, including the use of limited depth of field and the out of focus anamorphic figures as used in the Assume Nothing Campaign for the Terrence Higgins Trust.