Dafna Talmor is an artist and lecturer based in London whose practice encompasses photography, spatial interventions, curation and collaborations. Her photographs are included in public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Deutsche Bank, Hiscox and in private collections internationally. Talmor's work is included in Look at This If You Love Great Photography by Gemma Padley (Ivy Press 2021), 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) and has been featured in publications such as Architectural Review, Paper Journal, c4 journal, American Suburb X, 1000 Words, Elephant Magazine, Camera Austria, ArtReview, IMA, BJP, Hotshoe, GUP, Photomonitor, Artra and BLOW. Her first monograph - Constructed Landscapes - published by Fw:Books was released in October 2020 and longlisted for the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award.
Talmor’s recent solo shows include Straight Lines are a Human Invention at Sid Motion Gallery (London 2019), Constructed Landscapes at TOBE Gallery (Budapest, 2018) and Photofusion (London, 2017). Recent group exhibitions include Women in Photography: Lay of the Land at Informality Gallery (2020), Her Ground: Women Photographing Landscape at Flowers East (London 2019) ...on making at Gdansk National Museum (Poland 2019) curated by Sian Bonnell, Moving the Image: Photography and its Actions curated by Duncan Wooldridge at Camberwell Space (London 2019), Unseen Amsterdam in the CO-OP section with the London Alternative Photography Collective (Amsterdam 2018) and Synthetic Landscapes, curated by Meadow Arts at Weston Park (2017). Talmor was commissioned by the FT Weekend Magazine for the Photo London 2018 supplement and showed work in the concurrent My London group show in Peckham 24 curated by Emma Bowkett (May 2018).
Talmor was a finalist of the BNL BNP Paribas Group Award 2019, shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award 2018 and the Unseen Dummy Award 2018, was the recipient of a Breathing SPACE Bursary (2016), Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Awards (2017, 2014 & 2013), 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 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).
Alongside her practice, Talmor works as an Associate Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts on the Foundation Course and leads the annual Fine Art Summer School at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also teaches on a freelance basis across institutions nationally and internationally, doing lectures and workshops across different contexts that have included Unseen Amsterdam, Tate Modern, The Photographers' Gallery, Photofusion,
schools and universities.
Talmor is represented by Sid Motion Gallery in London, and presented a solo booth with the gallery in the recent edition of Photo London 2021 at Somerset House and was in-conversation with Beate Gütschow, chaired by Olga Smith, as part of the talks programme curated by William A. Ewing. She is represented by TOBE Gallery, based in Budapest, and took part in a group presentation with the gallery at Unseen Photo Fair 2021 and in Filling the Cracks, a group exhibition curated by Marcel Feil for Unseen Unbound, a new extension of the fair.
Talmor’s recent solo shows include Straight Lines are a Human Invention at Sid Motion Gallery (London 2019), Constructed Landscapes at TOBE Gallery (Budapest, 2018) and Photofusion (London, 2017). Recent group exhibitions include Women in Photography: Lay of the Land at Informality Gallery (2020), Her Ground: Women Photographing Landscape at Flowers East (London 2019) ...on making at Gdansk National Museum (Poland 2019) curated by Sian Bonnell, Moving the Image: Photography and its Actions curated by Duncan Wooldridge at Camberwell Space (London 2019), Unseen Amsterdam in the CO-OP section with the London Alternative Photography Collective (Amsterdam 2018) and Synthetic Landscapes, curated by Meadow Arts at Weston Park (2017). Talmor was commissioned by the FT Weekend Magazine for the Photo London 2018 supplement and showed work in the concurrent My London group show in Peckham 24 curated by Emma Bowkett (May 2018).
Talmor was a finalist of the BNL BNP Paribas Group Award 2019, shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award 2018 and the Unseen Dummy Award 2018, was the recipient of a Breathing SPACE Bursary (2016), Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Awards (2017, 2014 & 2013), 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 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).
Alongside her practice, Talmor works as an Associate Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts on the Foundation Course and leads the annual Fine Art Summer School at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also teaches on a freelance basis across institutions nationally and internationally, doing lectures and workshops across different contexts that have included Unseen Amsterdam, Tate Modern, The Photographers' Gallery, Photofusion,
schools and universities.
Talmor is represented by Sid Motion Gallery in London, and presented a solo booth with the gallery in the recent edition of Photo London 2021 at Somerset House and was in-conversation with Beate Gütschow, chaired by Olga Smith, as part of the talks programme curated by William A. Ewing. She is represented by TOBE Gallery, based in Budapest, and took part in a group presentation with the gallery at Unseen Photo Fair 2021 and in Filling the Cracks, a group exhibition curated by Marcel Feil for Unseen Unbound, a new extension of the fair.