Dewi Lewis Publishing
2025 marks Dewi Lewis Publishing’s 32nd anniversary as an independent publisher. Founded in 1994, it is a partnership owned and run by husband and wife, Dewi Lewis and Caroline Warhurst.
Best known as a photobook publisher, the company has also published award-winning fiction with titles shortlisted and longlisted for the Booker Prize. It has also ventured into Sports publishing with titles that have included the highly successful biography of José Mourinho, Made in Portugal.
Its photography list has an international reputation and includes books by leading British and international photographers, such as Laia Abril, William Klein, Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Fay Godwin, Tom Wood, Sergio Larrain, Frank Horvat, John Blakemore, Paolo Pelegrin, Simon Roberts, and Bruce Gilden. The ambition of the company is to bring to the attention of a wider public, accessible but challenging contemporary photography by both established and lesser known practitioners.
It publishes up to 20 new titles each year, and its books are distributed worldwide. It was a founding member of the European Publishers Award for Photography, which ran from 1994 to 2016. In 2014, Dewi Lewis Publishing received the PHotoEspaña’s prize for Outstanding Publishing House of the Year. In 2018, the company won both the Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Photobook of the Year Award and the Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Prize.
Caroline Warhurst has been involved in the company for most of its 30-year history. Her father and grandfather, both known as Bill Warhurst, were press photographers with The Times, London, for many decades. Her grandfather was the Times photographer who was present at the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Caroline began working in photography at Manchester Studies, where, in addition to her role as a researcher, she also programmed a photographic gallery at Manchester Polytechnic. She later became a key member of The Documentary Photography Archive, where she was involved in commissioning several contemporary photographers, including Martin Parr, Clement Cooper, and John Darwell.
Before establishing the imprint, Dewi Lewis was the founding Director of Cornerhouse (now known as HOME), one of the major UK Centres for Contemporary Visual Arts and Film, based in Manchester. In 1987 he established Cornerhouse Publications which achieved recognition internationally for its ambitious and imaginative publishing programme and was a winner of the Sunday Times Award for Small Publisher of the Year. Since 1994, many titles published by Dewi Lewis Publishing have been shortlisted for a range of international prizes, and several have won awards.
Dewi Lewis is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 2009 he received the inaugural Royal Photographic Society Award for Outstanding Services to Photography. He has also been awarded the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Publishing.
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Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
