Originally from Toronto, Canada, Don is an award-winning photographer currently residing in Kiev, Ukraine. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, he also received the Lange-Taylor Documentary Prize and a World Press Award. Amongst other citations, Weber was named one of PDN’s 30 in 2008 and an Emerging Photo Pioneer by American Photo Magazine.
Prior to photography, Don worked as an architect for Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has also received a Governor’s General Gold Medal for Architecture while working in Canada.
Don has exhibited his work in over 50 cities worldwide, at galleries and festivals, including traveling exhibits at the United Nations and the 60th Anniversary Celebration of the Declaration of Human Rights with the VII Network photo agency. His work won the Grand Prize for the 2007 PHODAR Photography Biennial in Bulgaria. He has completed assignments for such international publications as: Business Week, Der Spiegel, Maclean’s, the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Condé Nast Portfolio, Rolling Stone, Stern and Time, as well as the NGO’s Medecins sans Frontieres, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and War Child. Don is represented by the VII Network.
His Guggenheim Fellowship allowed him to continue working on a book about life in Russia. It’s about the curse of power, and the wounds it inflicts on those who don’t have it. It’s the 18th Century with jets flying overhead.
His first book, Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl, was released in 2008.
