David Lurie (born 1951) is a South African photographer, living and working in

Cape Town Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...

."About"
, David Lurie's personal website. Lurie has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East.

Life and career

Born in Cape Town in 1951,David Lurie
, South African History Online. Lurie studied economics, politics and philosophy at the

University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...

, and graduated with a BA Honours degree. He went on to teach philosophy at the University, before moving to the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

in London in 1980, where he undertook research at the Department of International Relations. From 1985, he worked as a consultant–economist in London.David Lurie
, South African History Online. In 1990, Lurie, self-taught in photography, began taking on documentary projects part-time. This became his full-time job in 1995, following the publication of his first book ''Life in the Liberated Zone.''"Life In The Liberated Zone"
Cornerhouse.

Books

* ''Life in the Liberated Zone''. Manchester:

Cornerhouse Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a booksho ...

, 1994. . * ''Cape Town Fringe: Manenberg Avenue is where it's happening''. Cape Town: Double Storey, 2004. . * ''Images of Table Mountain''. Cape Town: Bell-Roberts, 2006. .

Exhibitions

*''South African Photographs'': 1990 (toured UK) *''Working the Surface of the Earth'': 1990 (Group show) *''Bitter Harvest'': 1992 (UK, Europe, US, South Africa) *Portfolio Gallery, London (with

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and

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) (1992) *''Life in the Liberated Zone'': 1993 (UK, Europe, US, South Africa) *''Crisis in South Africa's Health Services'': 1994 (UK) *''After Apartheid: South Africa's black middle class'': 1995 (US tour, with ''Life in the Liberated Zone'', commissioned by the Getty Center, Los Angeles) *''Struggling to Share the Promised Land'': 2001-2 (UK, Germany, Bahrain, South Africa) *''Offside: Cape Town 2010'' at the AVA Gallery, Cape Town, on the peripheries of Cape Town society. "This selection of photographs deconstructs and explores the irony and inherent contradictions promulgated by the media that has turned a blind eye to the realities of poverty, mass inequality and xenophobia in order to line the pockets of the chosen few." *''The Right To Refuge'', with supporting text by Steven Robins and poetry by

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Cape Town Holocaust Centre The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre began as Africa's first Holocaust centre founded in 1999. The Centre works towards creating a more caring and just society in which human rights and diversity are respected and valued. Through exhibitions ...

, 2010."The Right to Refuge"
South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation.

Collections

Iziko South African National Gallery The Iziko South African National Gallery is the national art gallery of South Africa located in Cape Town. It became part of the Iziko collection of museums – as managed by the Department of Arts and Culture – in 2001. It then became an agenc ...

Side Gallery Side Gallery is a photography gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, run by Amber Film & Photography Collective. It opened in 1977 as Side Gallery and Cinema with a remit to show humanist photography "both by and commissioned by the group along with ...

(Newcastle upon Tyne) * Getty Center (Los Angeles) * Black Gallery (Los Angeles)

Awards

Pictures of the Year International Pictures of the Year International (POYi) is a professional development program for visual journalists run on a non-profit basis by the Missouri School of Journalism's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. POYi began as an annual competition f ...

"Cape Town Fringe, Manenberg Ave Is Where It's Happening"
Pictures of the Year International archive. *The World Understanding Award for ''Cape Town Fringe: Manenberg Avenue is where it’s happening'' * Arts Council of Great Britain grant awards

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lurie, David South African photographers People from Cape Town Academic staff of the University of Cape Town Living people 1951 births Documentary photographers