Dave Southwood is a photographer who has concerned himself with many aspects of the medium and how it is consumed.
His photos can be viewed at The South African National Gallery, The Finnish Museum of Photography, The Christoph Merian Stiftung, The Spier Art Collection and private collections in South Africa and abroad.
His work made up part of three shows at The South African National Gallery in 2010, two of which were broad surveys of South African art.
In 2003 he was awarded first prize by the Bauhaus for an interdisciplinary project which he co-authored. Three short films he made about some architecture were shown at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010. These two projects are representative of a deep concern for architecture and cities which culminated in a project called citiesincrisis which he co-curated.
He has contributed to, and been featured in, publications like Adbusters, COLORS and Wallpaper, and has edited photo editions of magazines. He has taught at Universities and written for the art press.
Together with some black photographers he set up the first non-profit organisation for ‘street photographers’ in the Western Cape called Umlilo in 2000. He still works with these freelancers.
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