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Dan Burwood

Dan Burwood is a Birmingham-based photographer, whose practice includes documentary, portraiture and fine art image making. He produces traditional hand prints, and also works digitally. Dan has developed substantial bodies of documentary photography on diverse subjects with social, political and environmental concerns. He also undertakes portrait commissions and works in educational and socially engaged contexts. Still Standing (2006-) is an examination of a culture of repair and improvised reuse becoming an investigation of political and material life in Cuba; and City Squares (2006-), is a series of landscape works that engage with urban redevelopment in Birmingham. Dan is currently researching, photographing and writing about food production and consumption and the culture of rural markets in the West Midlands.

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