David Lurie (born 1951) is a South African photographer, living and working in

Cape Town Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest ...

."About"
, David Lurie's personal website. Lurie has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East.

Life and career

Born in Cape Town in 1951,David Lurie
, South African History Online. Lurie studied economics, politics and philosophy at the

University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) (, ) is a public university, public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest univer ...

, and graduated with a BA Honours degree. He went on to teach philosophy at the University, before moving to the

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in London in 1980, where he undertook research at the Department of International Relations. From 1985, he worked as a consultant–economist in London.David Lurie
, South African History Online. In 1990, Lurie, self-taught in photography, began taking on documentary projects part-time. This became his full-time job in 1995, following the publication of his first book ''Life in the Liberated Zone.''"Life In The Liberated Zone"
Cornerhouse.

Books

* ''Life in the Liberated Zone''. Manchester:

Cornerhouse Cornerhouse was a cinema and contemporary visual arts centre next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, from 1985 to 2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a bookshop, bar and café. Cornerhouse was ...

, 1994. . * ''Cape Town Fringe: Manenberg Avenue is where it's happening''. Cape Town: Double Storey, 2004. . * ''Images of Table Mountain''. Cape Town: Bell-Roberts, 2006. .

Exhibitions

*''South African Photographs'': 1990 (toured UK) *''Working the Surface of the Earth'': 1990 (Group show) *''Bitter Harvest'': 1992 (UK, Europe, US, South Africa) *Portfolio Gallery, London (with

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and

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) (1992) *''Life in the Liberated Zone'': 1993 (UK, Europe, US, South Africa) *''Crisis in South Africa's Health Services'': 1994 (UK) *''After Apartheid: South Africa's black middle class'': 1995 (US tour, with ''Life in the Liberated Zone'', commissioned by the

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, Los Angeles) *''Struggling to Share the Promised Land'': 2001-2 (UK, Germany, Bahrain, South Africa) *''Offside: Cape Town 2010'' at the AVA Gallery, Cape Town, on the peripheries of Cape Town society. "This selection of photographs deconstructs and explores the irony and inherent contradictions promulgated by the media that has turned a blind eye to the realities of poverty, mass inequality and xenophobia in order to line the pockets of the chosen few." *''The Right To Refuge'', with supporting text by Steven Robins and poetry by Patricia Schonstein,

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, 2010."The Right to Refuge"
, South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation.

Collections

Iziko South African National Gallery The Iziko South African National Gallery is the national art gallery of South Africa located in Cape Town. It became part of the Iziko collection of museums – as managed by the Department of Arts and Culture – in 2001. It then became an agenc ...

Side Gallery Side Gallery is a photography gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, run by Amber Film & Photography Collective. It opened in 1977 as Side Gallery and Cinema with a remit to show humanist photography "both by and commissioned by the group along with wo ...

(Newcastle upon Tyne) *

(Los Angeles) *

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(Los Angeles)

Awards

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"Cape Town Fringe, Manenberg Ave Is Where It's Happening"
Pictures of the Year International archive. *The World Understanding Award for ''Cape Town Fringe: Manenberg Avenue is where it’s happening'' *

Arts Council of Great Britain The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain. It was divided in 1994 to form the Arts Council of England (now Arts Council England), the Scottish Arts Council (l ...

grant awards

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lurie, David South African photographers People from Cape Town Academic staff of the University of Cape Town Living people 1951 births Documentary photographers