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DALE YUDELMAN

DALE YUDELMAN (b. 1958) grew up in Johannesburg and began photographing at a young age under the tutelage of his father.

He was barely out of his teens in 1979 when he started working as a staff photographer for The Star Newspaper. In 1986 he moved to London and then Los Angeles, working freelance for various newspapers and magazines. Returning to a newly democratic South Africa in 1996, he began collaborating with artist Arlene Amaler-Raviv. Together they produced three major exhibitions and a number of commissions – their final show, ‘Livestock’ was exhibited at the 8th Havana Biennale in Cuba.

Yudelman then ventured into uncharted territory drawing on his photojournalism background and a growing interest in digital technology. The resulting series ‘Reality Bytes’ are works that reclaim and freeze the emotional content of daily experience rather than merely regurgitating actual events. A number of projects followed - including ‘ I am…’ , a portrayal of the ongoing plight of refugees in South Africa. For his series 'Life under Democracy' he won the inaugural Ernest Cole Award in 2012 - the country’s most prestigious prize for social documentary photography.

Yudelman’s work is a consequence of a studied eye, brokered over forty years of incessant image making. Enthralled with the many aspects, nuances and dimensions of reality – his images are a manifestation of how modern photography is able to escape the bounds of the ‘record’ - creating an authentic and evocative account of recent times.

AWARDS:

Ernest Cole Award
Sony Profoto Award - Portfolio of the Year
Professional Photographers of South Africa Award
Fuji Film Professional Photographers Award
Commonwealth Photographic Award
Advertising Photographers of America Award
Photo/Design Magazine Award
Nikon International Award
Shell Press Pictures of the Year Award
World Press Award
National Schools Salon Award

CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Sasol, Standard Bank, Old Mutual, South African Breweries, Davis Langdon Farrow Laing,
British American Tobacco, Webber Wentzel Bowens, JP Morgan, Cadiz, Coronation, Anglo