Donald Weber
PhD candidate / Guest
- Name
- D. Weber
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- d.weber@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Donald Weber is a visiting PhD candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts.
Profile
Prior to photography, Donald Weber (1973, CA) was educated at the Ontario College of Art and Design University and worked as an architect with Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Weber is the author of four photography books. Interrogations is included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s seminal ‘The Photobook: A History, Volume III.’ He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lange-Taylor Prize, the Duke and Duchess of York Prize, two World Press Photo Awards, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Prize.
His diverse photography projects have been exhibited as installations, exhibitions and screenings worldwide including the United Nations, Museum of the Army at Les Invalides in Paris, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum. Weber serves on the photography faculty at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
PhD candidate / Guest
- Faculty of Humanities
- Academie der Kunsten