Dewi Lewis was the founding Director of Cornerhouse, Manchester, a major UK centre for contemporary visual arts and film, where he established Cornerhouse Publications, a winner of the Sunday Times Small Publisher Award. He founded his own publishing company in 1994 and has published many leading international photographers such as Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Paolo Pellegrin and Bruce Gilden as well as emerging photographers. Many of the imprint’s titles have won or been shortlisted for various international prizes. In 2014, Dewi Lewis Publishing received the PHotoEspana award for “Outstanding Publishing House of the Year.”
A regular lecturer and portfolio reviewer and an occasional curator, Dewi was also a founding member of The European Publishers’ Award for Photography, which ran for over twenty years. In 2004 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 2009 he was awarded the inaugural Royal Photographic Society Award for “Outstanding Services to Photography.” In 2012, he was awarded the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Publishing” at the World Photography Awards.
