Donald Weber

Donald Weber (born 1973) is a Canadian photographer who focuses on the effects of world power.

He is a member of VII Photo Agency.

Weber was born in 1973 in Toronto, Ontario.

He worked in Ukraine and Russia for seven years, making numerous visits beginning in 2005.

Weber's books include Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl (2008), Interrogations (2011), Barricade: The EuroMaidan Revolt (with Arthur Bondar, 2015) and War Sand (2017).

Weber has had solo exhibitions at Phodar Foundation, Pleven, Bulgaria; Pikto Gallery, Toronto, Canada; and Alice Austen House, New York City.

He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a World Press Photo Award, the Lange-Taylor Prize, a Sony World Photography Award and the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography.

He joined VII Network in 2008 and became a full member of VII Photo Agency in 2013.

Weber focuses on the effects of world power, how state power functions the world over and how those in power use theatre to coerce their subjects; he seeks to uncover the unspoken collaboration between the parties with his photography.

In 2010 and 2011 for his book Interrogations he investigated the power relationship between police and criminals by photographing people being interrogated by Ukrainian police and subjected to both psychological and physical abuse in order to extract information.

Weber has spoken about how these techniques are not specific to Ukraine but are standard police practice and used elsewhere, for example in Canada.

In The Photobook: A History, Vol. 3, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger praised Interrogations, writing "Weber's vision is clear-eyed and unflinching in its sober directness, which makes it both effective and discomforting to look at."

Together with Christopher Nunn and Kateryna Radchenko, Weber has created a series of newspaper-format publications called The Information Front that collates images by Ukrainian photographers and photojournalists of the war in Ukraine.