Dafna Talmor is an artist and lecturer based in London whose practice encompasses photography, video, curation and collaborations. Talmor completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths (2001) and MA in Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art (2004), London and has been exhibiting work nationally and internationally since 1999. Her photographs are included in public collections such as Deutsche Bank, Hiscox, in numerous private collections internationally and has been featured in publications such as Camera Austria, ArtReview, Hotshoe, Elephant, GUP, UYW, BJP, Photomonitor and BLOW. Talmor's work is included in Post-Photography:The Artist with a Camera by Robert Shore (Laurence King Publishing 2014) and Alternative Photographic Processes:Crafting Handmade Images by Brady Wilks (Focal Press 2015). She has been commissioned by the FT Weekend Magazine for their current Photo London special supplement and will be showing in the concurrent 'My London' group show in Peckham 24 curated by Emma Bowkett (May 2018). Talmor was recently shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award 2018, which will be displayed throughout Photo London 2018 at Somerset House.
Talmor is the recipient of a Breathing SPACE Bursary (2016), Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Awards (2013, 2014 & 2017), the Photofusion Select Bursary Award (2013), selected as a series finalist for the Renaissance Photography Prize 2013, IV Daniela Chappard Biennale Photography Award (2007) and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Artist Award (2005). In March 2014, a collaborative initiative she co-founded with Minna Kantonen and Emma Wieslander, On Landscape Project, presented an Arts Council funded exhibition and programme of events On Landscape #1, at Yinka Shonibare's Guest Projects (London) followed by On Landscape #2 at Matèria Gallery (Rome 2015) and On Landscape #3 at Lower Hewood Farm (Dorset, UK 2016).
Talmor is an Associate Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Southampton Solent University, was recently a PT Lecturer on the Fine Art Extension Degree & co-leads the annual Fine Art Summer School at Goldsmiths, University of London. Talmor also works on a freelance basis as a visiting lecturer and runs workshops in different contexts that have included Tate Modern, The Photographers' Gallery and Photofusion in London.
Talmor is the recipient of a Breathing SPACE Bursary (2016), Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Awards (2013, 2014 & 2017), the Photofusion Select Bursary Award (2013), selected as a series finalist for the Renaissance Photography Prize 2013, IV Daniela Chappard Biennale Photography Award (2007) and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Artist Award (2005). In March 2014, a collaborative initiative she co-founded with Minna Kantonen and Emma Wieslander, On Landscape Project, presented an Arts Council funded exhibition and programme of events On Landscape #1, at Yinka Shonibare's Guest Projects (London) followed by On Landscape #2 at Matèria Gallery (Rome 2015) and On Landscape #3 at Lower Hewood Farm (Dorset, UK 2016).
Talmor is an Associate Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Southampton Solent University, was recently a PT Lecturer on the Fine Art Extension Degree & co-leads the annual Fine Art Summer School at Goldsmiths, University of London. Talmor also works on a freelance basis as a visiting lecturer and runs workshops in different contexts that have included Tate Modern, The Photographers' Gallery and Photofusion in London.