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Dewi Lewis, 2014

Dewi Lewis (born 10 March 1951) is a Welsh publisher and curator of photography.

Career

In 1975, Lewis was the founding director of the Bury Metropolitan Arts Association which operates the Met.Шаблон:Citation needed

Lewis also founded and was the first director of Cornerhouse, an arts centre in Manchester, England.[1]

Lewis was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004[2] and was awarded the Society’s inaugural RPS Award for Outstanding Service to Photography in 2009.[3] In 2012, the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation presented him with an award for Outstanding Contribution to Photography Publishing.[1][4][5]

Lewis has acted as a jury member for several major competitions and as a portfolio reviewer at international photography events including Fotofest and Review Santa Fe (both USA), Lodz Festival (Poland) and PHotoEspaña (Spain). He was a ‘Master’ for the 2009, 2010 and 2011 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclasses.[6] Along with his own book, Publishing Photography (1992), he writes occasional texts on photography and has curated exhibitions including a survey show of the British magazine Picture Post for the 2010 Atri Festival.[7]

Dewi Lewis Publishing

In 1994 Lewis established Dewi Lewis Publishing, a publisher of photobooks run by Lewis and his wife Caroline Warhurst from their home in Manchester.[8][1]

Photographers whose books have been published by Dewi Lewis Publishing include Bruce Gilden[9] William Klein,[10] Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen,[11] Sergio Larrain,[12] Simon Norfolk,[13] Martin Parr,[14] and Simon Roberts. Lewis works in close collaboration with a number of European publishers and is a founding member of the European Publishers Award for Photography, established in 1994.[15]

In 2014 Dewi Lewis Publishing won PhotoEspaña's Outstanding Publishing House of the Year award.[16]

Book by Lewis

See also

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  9. Haiti (1996, Шаблон:ISBN); After the Off (1999, Шаблон:ISBN).
  10. Life is Good and Good for You in New York! Trance Witness Revels, new ed. (1995, Шаблон:ISBN).
  11. Writing in the Sand: On the Beaches of North East England (2000, Шаблон:ISBN).
  12. London 1958–59 (1998, Шаблон:ISBN).
  13. For Most of It I Have No Words (1998, Шаблон:ISBN).
  14. The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton, 2nd ed (1998, Шаблон:ISBN); Common Sense (1999, Шаблон:ISBN).
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