Dewi Lewis

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Dewi Lewis established his publishing house in 1994. Internationally known, its authors have included photographers such as Martin Parr, Bruce Gilden, Pentti Sammallahti, Paolo Pellegrin, Sergio Larrain and Anders Petersen as well as many younger emerging photographers. He was a founding member of the European Publishers Award for Photography which ran until 2016, working in close collaboration with a number of other European publishers.

 An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, he was awarded the Society’s inaugural RPS Award for Outstanding Service to Photography and the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation presented him with the Outstanding Contribution to Publishing award at the Sony World Photography Awards. Dewi Lewis Publishing has received the PHotoEspana prize for Outstanding Publishing House of the Year and its titles have won numerous awards including the Aperture/Paris Photo Book Award and the Rencontres d’Arles Book Award.

He has acted as Jury member for several major competitions and as a portfolio reviewer at innumerable international photography events. For three years he was a ‘Master’ for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclasses. As well as his own book, Publishing Photography, he writes occasional texts on photography and has curated exhibitions including a survey show of the famous UK magazine, Picture Post, for the Atri Festival in Italy.