Dafna Talmor is an artist and lecturer based in London whose practice encompasses photography, video, curation and collaborations. Her photographs are included in public collections such as Deutsche Bank, Hiscox and in private collections internationally. 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) and has been featured in publications such as 1000 Words, Elephant Magazine, Camera Austria, ArtReview, IMA, BJP, Hotshoe, GUP, Photomonitor and BLOW.
Talmor was recently 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’s recent solo shows include Constructed Landscapes at TOBE Gallery (Budapest, 2018) and Photofusion (London, 2017) and group exhibitions Inner Landscapes at Sid Motion Gallery and Synthetic Landscapes, curated by Meadow Arts at Weston Park. She took part in Unseen Amsterdam 2018 in the CO-OP section with the London Alternative Photography Collective.
Talmor was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award 2018, which was displayed throughout Photo London 2018 at Somerset House, and the Unseen Dummy Award, displayed at Unseen Amsterdam 2018, is 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 is an Associate Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Solent University, leads the annual Fine Art Summer School at Goldsmiths, University of London, works on a freelance basis as a visiting lecturer nationally and internationally and runs workshops across different contexts that have included Unseen Amsterdam, Tate Modern, The Photographers' Gallery, Photofusion, schools and universities.
Talmor was recently 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’s recent solo shows include Constructed Landscapes at TOBE Gallery (Budapest, 2018) and Photofusion (London, 2017) and group exhibitions Inner Landscapes at Sid Motion Gallery and Synthetic Landscapes, curated by Meadow Arts at Weston Park. She took part in Unseen Amsterdam 2018 in the CO-OP section with the London Alternative Photography Collective.
Talmor was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award 2018, which was displayed throughout Photo London 2018 at Somerset House, and the Unseen Dummy Award, displayed at Unseen Amsterdam 2018, is 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 is an Associate Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Solent University, leads the annual Fine Art Summer School at Goldsmiths, University of London, works on a freelance basis as a visiting lecturer nationally and internationally and runs workshops across different contexts that have included Unseen Amsterdam, Tate Modern, The Photographers' Gallery, Photofusion, schools and universities.