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

Career

In 1975, Lewis was the founding director of the Bury Metropolitan Arts Association which operates the Met. Lewis also founded and was the first director of

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, an arts centre in Manchester, England. He ran the organisation until 1994 when he left to establish Dewi Lewis Publishing. In 2015 Cornerhouse merged with the Library Theatre Company to create a new venue 'Home'. . ref name=ManchesterNews /> Lewis was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004 and was awarded the Society’s inaugural RPS Award for Outstanding Service to Photography in 2009. In 2012, the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation presented him with an award for Outstanding Contribution to Photography Publishing. Lewis has acted as a jury member for several major competitions and as a portfolio reviewer at international photography events including Fotofest and

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(both USA), Lodz Festival (Poland) and

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(Spain). He was a ‘Master’ for the 2009, 2010 and 2011 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclasses. 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 ''

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'' for the 2010 Atri Festival.

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

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. Photographers whose books have been published by Dewi Lewis Publishing include

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William Klein,

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, Sergio Larrain,

Simon Norfolk Simon Norfolk (born 1963) is a Nigerian-born British architectural and landscape photographer. He has produced four photo book monographs of his work. He lives and works in Brighton & Hove. He also lived in Kabul. His work is featured regularly ...

Martin Parr Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in p ...

, and Simon Roberts. Lewis has worked in close collaboration with a number of European publishers and was a founding member of the

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, which was established in 1994 and ran until 2015. In 2014 Dewi Lewis Publishing won

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's Outstanding Publishing House of the Year award.

Book by Lewis

*''Publishing Photography''. Manchester: Cornerhouse, 1992. .

References

External links

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