Dana Lixenberg
photographer
Dana Lixenberg is a Dutch photographer and filmmaker born in Amsterdam in 1964. She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Lixenberg studied photography at the London College of Printing (1984–1986) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (1987–1989). Her work primarily focuses on long-term projects documenting individuals and communities on the margins of society, often using a large format 4x5-inch field camera. Notable works include 'Jeffersonville, Indiana' (2005), which documents the homeless population of a small town over seven years, and 'The Last Days of Shishmaref' (2008), which portrays an Inupiaq community on an eroding island in Alaska facing climate change.
- marginalized communities
- environmental photography
- portraiture
- climate change
Books
Works by Dana Lixenberg
- 2005 Jeffersonville, Indiana
- 2008 The Last Days of Shishmaref
- 2011 Set Amsterdam
- 2011 De Burgemeester/The Mayor
- 2015 Imperial Courts With texts by Kenneth Cox, Lixenberg, and Carla Williams.
Exhibitions
- 2015 Imperial Courts, 1993-2015
Awards
- 2017 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
- 2021 Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society
References
- Dana Lixenberg link