Dafna Talmor is a London-based artist and lecturer whose practice encompasses photography, spatial interventions, curation and collaborations. Her photographs are included in public collections such as the National Trust, 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, The Guardian, Paper Journal, c4 journal, American Suburb X, 1000 Words, Elephant Magazine, Arena, Camera Austria, ArtReview, IMA, BJP, Hotshoe, GUP, Photomonitor, Artra and BLOW. Her first monograph - Constructed Landscapes - published by Fw:Books in October 2020 - was longlisted for the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award and she was recently awarded a Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship (2022)..
Current group exhibitions include Glossaries, a duo show with artist Hannah Hughes at Sid Motion Gallery (London) and Known & Strange: Photographs from the Collection at the V&A Museum (London) curated by Lisa Springer. Recent group shows include Stories We Live With - Selection from the Somlói–Spengler Collection at QContemporary (Budapest) curated by Mónika Zsikla and Occupying Photography: To the Milky Way via the Sea at NŌUA (Bodø) curated by Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo, No Place is an Island curated by Rodrigo Orrantia for Photo50 at the London Art Fair (all in 2022), Women in Photography: Lay of the Land at Informality Gallery (Henley-upon-Thames, 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). Recent solo exhibitions include Constructed Landscapes at Carmen Araujo Arte (Caracas, Venezuela, 2022) curated by Ricardo Baez, Constructed Landscapes (vol. III) at TOBE Gallery (Budapest, 2022), Straight Lines are a Human Invention at Sid Motion Gallery (London, 2019), Constructed Landscapes at TOBE Gallery (Budapest, 2018) and Photofusion (London, 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 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 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. Her most recent posts were at Camberwell College of Arts on the Foundation Course and since 2008, leading 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.
Current group exhibitions include Glossaries, a duo show with artist Hannah Hughes at Sid Motion Gallery (London) and Known & Strange: Photographs from the Collection at the V&A Museum (London) curated by Lisa Springer. Recent group shows include Stories We Live With - Selection from the Somlói–Spengler Collection at QContemporary (Budapest) curated by Mónika Zsikla and Occupying Photography: To the Milky Way via the Sea at NŌUA (Bodø) curated by Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo, No Place is an Island curated by Rodrigo Orrantia for Photo50 at the London Art Fair (all in 2022), Women in Photography: Lay of the Land at Informality Gallery (Henley-upon-Thames, 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). Recent solo exhibitions include Constructed Landscapes at Carmen Araujo Arte (Caracas, Venezuela, 2022) curated by Ricardo Baez, Constructed Landscapes (vol. III) at TOBE Gallery (Budapest, 2022), Straight Lines are a Human Invention at Sid Motion Gallery (London, 2019), Constructed Landscapes at TOBE Gallery (Budapest, 2018) and Photofusion (London, 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 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 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. Her most recent posts were at Camberwell College of Arts on the Foundation Course and since 2008, leading 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.