Donald Weber (photographer)

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Donald Weber (born 1973) is a Canadian photographer who focuses on the effects of world power. [1] He is a member of VII Photo Agency. Weber's books include Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl (2008), Interrogations (2011), Barricade: The EuroMaidan Revolt (with Arthur Bondar, 2015) and War Sand (2017).

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Weber has had solo exhibitions at Phodar Foundation, Pleven, Bulgaria; Pikto Gallery, Toronto, Canada; and Alice Austen House, New York City. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, [2] a World Press Photo Award, [3] the Lange-Taylor Prize, [4] a Sony World Photography Award [5] and the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography. [6]

Life and work

Weber was born in 1973 in Toronto, Ontario.

He joined VII Network in 2008 and became a full member of VII Photo Agency in 2013. [7]

Weber focuses on the effects of world power, [1] how state power functions the world over and how those in power use theatre to coerce their subjects; he seeks to uncover the unspoken collaboration between the parties with his photography. [8]

He worked in Ukraine and Russia for seven years, making numerous visits beginning in 2005. In 2010 and 2011 for his book Interrogations he investigated the power relationship between police and criminals by photographing people being interrogated by Ukrainian police and subjected to both psychological and physical abuse in order to extract information. Weber has spoken about how these techniques are not specific to Ukraine but are standard police practice and used elsewhere, for example in Canada. [9] [10] [11] In The Photobook: A History, Vol. 3, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger praised Interrogations, writing "Weber's vision is clear-eyed and unflinching in its sober directness, which makes it both effective and discomforting to look at." [12]

Together with Christopher Nunn and Kateryna Radchenko, Weber has created a series of newspaper-format publications called The Information Front that collates images by Ukrainian photographers and photojournalists of the war in Ukraine. [13] [14]

Publications

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions and exhibitions with others

Awards

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  3. 1 2 "2005, Donald Weber, Honorable mention, Daily Life". World Press Photo . Retrieved 8 December 2014.
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  5. 1 2 "Winners of Sony World Photography awards 2012 – in pictures". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Donald Weber wins Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography from the Canada Council for the Arts". Canada Council . Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Laurent, Olivier (21 May 2014). "VII Photo rises to challenges of changing photographic landscape with dynamic new agency model". British Journal of Photography . Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  8. ↑ "Bio Archived 9 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine ", Donald Weber. Accessed 9 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "Photography: Interrogations, by Donald Weber". The Independent . 15 January 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "Donald Weber's Brutal Ukrainian Interrogation Photos". Vice. 18 April 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  11. ↑ Tharoor, Ishaan (13 February 2012). "A Gun to Your Head: Inside Post-Soviet Interrogation Rooms". Time . Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  12. ↑ Martin Parr; Gerry Badger (2014). The Photobook: A History, Volume III. London: Phaidon. p. 137. ISBN   978-0-7148-6677-2.
  13. ↑ Colberg, Jörg. "The Information Front ensures the war and atrocities taking place in Ukraine are not forgotten". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  14. ↑ "How Ukrainian photographers captured a year of conflict". Financial Times. 17 February 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  15. ↑ "Results from the competition of Phodar Biennial'07". Phodar Biennial. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
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