Dominic Nahr was born in 1983 in Switzerland and raised in Hong Kong where he established himself as a photojournalist. There, he worked for the South China Morning Post as a staff photographer. In 2005 he was accepted into the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York, in which he won the Getty Images Assignment Award in recognition of his work.
In 2007, while still attending university in Toronto, Dominic became a freelance photographer, being commissioned by magazines such as Newsweek, GQ Magazine, The Fader, The Globe and Mail, among others. His photographs also appeared in TIME, Sunday Times Magazine, British Journal for Photography and others.
Dominic graduated from Ryerson University in June 2008. Recently he has been awarded an Award of Excellence in Photographer of the Year International in 2008. Dominic became a member of Oeil Public in September 2008. He recently has appeared in Stern, Spiegel, Internazionale, Le Monde 2, The Telegraph, Vanity Fair Germany and Italy.
Dominic is based out of Nairobi, Kenya.
AWARDS
2009 Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award presented at the Arles Photo Festival
2009 Sony World Photography Awards, 2nd place, Current Affairs.
2009 Winner PDN 30 under 30, Photo District News Magazine
2008 Selected Canada Winner Fast Forward 2008, Magenta Foundation.
2008 Winner, Award of Excellence, ‘Magazine News Picture Story', Pictures of the Year International
2008 Winner, Photo District News Magazine, Photo Annual
2007 Runner-Up College Photographer of the Year and 1st Place International Picture Story; 62nd College Photographer of the Year Award
2007 Finalist, Honorable Mention, Ian Parry Scholarship (England)
2007 Selected Canada Winner Fast Forward 2007, Magenta Foundation.
2007 Winner, Photo District News Magazine, Photo Annual.
2006 1st Place International Picture Story; 61st College Photographer of the Year Award.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2009 The Road to Nowhere, Visa pour l'image, Perpignan, France
2009 Solo Exhibition TBA (October), O'Born Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2009 Solo Exhibition TBA (October), FCC, Hong Kong, China
2008 When Brothers Fight, Feature Exhibition, CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Recent Work, Nuit Blanche, Camera, Toronto, Canada
Group
2009 Sony World Photography Awards Finalists Exhibition, Cannes, France.
2009 Rendez-Vous, O'Born Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2009 Contemporary at Kultura, Toronto, Canada.
2008 Pont des Arts - 60th Anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration, Amnesty International, Paris, France.
2008 document, O'Born Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2008 When Brothers Fight, LOOK3 Photo Festival, IX Warehouse, Charlottesville, USA
2008 The Tears of Timor, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia
2007 Ian Parry Scholarship - Finalist Group Exhibition, Getty Images Gallery, London, England
Table ronde le mardi 3 mai à 19 heures sur le Printemps Arabe avec Khadija Mohsen-Finan (chercheur et enseignante à Paris VIII), Olivier Piot (grand reporter, auteur de La Révolution Tunisienne) et Jean-François Leroy (fondateur de Visa pour l’Image).
La rencontre aura lieu en présence de plusieurs des photographes ayant couvert les conflits et participé à l’exposition.
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Twelve young photographers will meet with a group of masters for the 17th annual World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass to be held from 29 October to 4 November 2010 in Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam. The 12 participants were selected among 162 candidates who had been nominated to submit their portfolios. During the masterclass meeting, the participating photographers will interact with six prominent experts, discussing technical, journalistic and ethical aspects of their work. A selection of their photography has been compiled in the photo book Persistence.
Persistence book launch
The publication of Persistence presents the masterclass participants’ photo essays, each with its distinctive – often widely diverse – interpretation of the theme. The hardcover book also puts the stories into persp...
The Swiss-born photographer Dominic Nahr has won the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award’, for the first time awarded this year, for his photographic essay from the Congo, titled ‘The Road to Nowhere’.
The portfolio ‘The Road to Nowhere’ – documents the dramatic situation of refugees in the east of the Republic of Congo at the end of 2008. From 2004, Laurent Nkunda, the then leader of the Tutsi rebels, fought against the country’s government and sowed fear and terror in the hearts of the local population. Amongst other things, his troops are alleged to have been responsible for numerous rapes, killings and episodes of torture. The situation escalated in October and November of 2008 as Laurent Nkunda took control of the most important roads and cities in the province of N...
Fishbar Gallery is proud to present Peter Van Agtmael, Olivia Arthur, Dominic Nahr and Moises Saman. The four most recent photographers to join the Magnum cooperative present their work from the streets of Tripoli and Cairo during the uprisings, about the lives of young women in Saudi Arabia and on the after effects of America’s longest war. Curated by Philipp Ebeling.
© Moises Saman, Tripoli 2011
© Dominic Nahr, Cairo 2011
The opening of the exhibition coincides with the launch of Olivia Arthur’s debut book ‘Jeddah Diary’.
‘Jeddah Diary’ is the extraordinary debut of Magnum photographer Olivia Arthur. Having worked extensively on women’s issues throughout Eastern Europe, iran, Turkey and north Africa, this is her first book on t...
Pour sa seconde édition, les Magnum Days investissent le cœur du quartier de Montmartre à Paris. Une semaine d’événements inédits autour de la photographie avec :
- Un studio éphémère unique pour obtenir son portrait réalisé par l’immense Martin Parr, chez Magnum Photos - 19 rue Hégésippe Moreau 75018 Paris
- Des projections vidéo de films produits par Magnum Photos dans les années 1960 suivi de débats & discussions sur la photographie, au Bal - 6 Impasse de la Défense 75018 Paris
- 3 jours dédiés aux Master Classes & lectures de Portfolios, au Lycée Auguste Renoir - 21-24 rue Ganneron 75018 Paris
Une nouvelle opportunité de découvrir, ...
The tragedy in Japan unfolds in news and documentary images by:
Christoph Bangert/Redux, Carlos Barria/Reuters, Peter Blakely/Redux, David Butow/Redux, Adam Dean/Panos, James Whitlow Delano/Redux, Digital Globe, Shiho Fukiama, GeoEye, David Guttenfelder/Associated Press, Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters, Kyodo News, Dominic Nahr/Magnum, Jake Price, Damir Sagolj/Reuters, Hiroto Sekiguchi/Associated Press, Mainichi Shimbun Daily, Q. Sakamaki/Redux, Ko Sasaki, Toshiyki Tsunenari/Associated Press, & Donald Weber/VII.
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Sur la place Tahrir (Caire), des manifestants, fantomatiques sous des bâches en plastique, campent depuis des jours. A Benghazi (Libye), la place du tribunal où sont regroupés les insurgés a été rebaptisée place Tahrir. A Tunis, un vieil homme digne et élégant reçoit la puissance d’un jet d’eau glacée dirigé par la police, et se redresse, muet et inflexible. « Pendant une révolution, on est plus beau, plus grand, plus courageux », crie Alaa El Aswani, l’auteur de L’immeuble Yacoubian.
Le monde est en train de changer sous nos yeux. Les révolutions des pays arabes ont fait irruption dans nos vies et rien ne sera plus comme avant. Les révolutions, moments rares et incertains...