David Campany
International Center of Photography
David Campany is a writer, curator and artist, working mainly with photography.
This website is an archive of David’s published writings, with information about curatorial projects.
His books include A Handful of Dust (2015), The Open Road: photographic road trips across America (2014), Walker Evans: the magazine work (2014), Gasoline (2013), Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (2010), Photography and Cinema (2008) and Art and Photography (2003). He also writes for Frieze, Aperture, Art Review, FOAM, Source, Photoworks and Tate magazine.
Recent curatorial projects include Dust (Le Bal, Paris, 2015) Walker Evans: anonymous (Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France, 2015), Lewis Baltz: Common Objects (Le Bal, Paris 2014), Victor Burgin: A Sense of Place (AmbikaP3 London, 2013), Mark Neville: Deeds Not Words (The Photographers’ Gallery London, 2013) and Anonymes: Unnamed America in Photography and Film (Le Bal Paris, 2010).
David has a Phd and teaches at the University of Westminster, London.
Alan Burles 10 photographs that found me. This project is about ideas and narrative. It is because I feel that street photography can be more than colours, shapes, silhouettes etc. It can be rich in ideas and humour. But it is a collection that I didn’t look for, I feel that these photographs found me. [...] 
Alan Burles I was an advertising art director but I have now turned to photography and since my early twenties I have carried a camera everywhere I go. Being in advertising had an extraordinary influence on me because I was fortunate enough to work at Saatchi & Saatchi in London which created a vibrant and [...] 
