Dafna Talmor

Dafna Talmor is a London-based artist and lecturer whose practice encompasses photography, sculpture, spatial interventions and collaborations.

Her work consists of cutting, splicing and collaging fragments of colour negative film from an archive of landscape photographs she has taken in the past. Fragments of varying source images collide and collude to create new illusory landscapes. The images are interlaced with dark areas, where collaged negatives overlap or fail to meet, creating compositional disruptions and perspectival distortions. The resulting work explores ideas of the construction of memory and reality through the photographic medium, as well as historical methods of photographic production.

Talmor is represented by Sid Motion Gallery in London and her work is included in various public collections including Victoria & Albert Museum, The National Trust, Deutsche Bank and Hiscox. She has been published extensively including The Women Who Changed Photography by Gemma Padley (Laurence King Publishing, 2024), Post-Photography:The Artist with a Camera by Robert Shore (Laurence King Publishing, 2014). Her book Constructed Landscapes was published by Fw:Books in 2020.