Dewi Lewis (born 10 March 1951) is a Welsh publisher and curator of photography.

In 1975, Lewis was the founding director of the Bury Metropolitan Arts Association which operates the Met.^{[citation needed]}

Lewis also founded and was the first director of Cornerhouse, an arts centre in Manchester, England.^[1]

Lewis was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004^[2] and was awarded the Society’s inaugural RPS Award for Outstanding Service to Photography in 2009.^[3] In 2012, the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation presented him with an award for Outstanding Contribution to Photography Publishing.^[1][4][5]

Lewis has acted as a jury member for several major competitions and as a portfolio reviewer at international photography events including Fotofest and Review Santa Fe (both USA), Lodz Festival (Poland) and PHotoEspaña (Spain). He was a ‘Master’ for the 2009, 2010 and 2011 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclasses.^[6] Along with his own book, Publishing Photography (1992), he writes occasional texts on photography and has curated exhibitions including a survey show of the British magazine Picture Post for the 2010 Atri Festival.^[7]

In 1994 Lewis established Dewi Lewis Publishing, a publisher of photobooks run by Lewis and his wife Caroline Warhurst from their home in Manchester.^[8][1]

Photographers whose books have been published by Dewi Lewis Publishing include Bruce Gilden^[9] William Klein,^[10] Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen,^[11] Sergio Larrain,^[12] Simon Norfolk,^[13] Martin Parr,^[14] and Simon Roberts. Lewis works in close collaboration with a number of European publishers and is a founding member of the European Publishers Award for Photography, established in 1994.^[15]

In 2014 Dewi Lewis Publishing won PhotoEspaña's Outstanding Publishing House of the Year award.^[16]

• Publishing Photography. Manchester: Cornerhouse, 1992. ISBN 9780948797811.

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