Quote The idea of photography seemed to come together with the idea that this is how I could be - someone who could have one step in the world while at the same time being one step removed from it.

Donovan Wylie joined Magnum Photos in 1992 and became a full Member in 1997.

British, b. Northern Ireland 1971

Born in Belfast in 1971, Donovan Wylie discovered photography at an early age. He left school at sixteen, and embarked on a three-month journey around Ireland that resulted in the production of his first book, 32 Counties (Secker and Warburg 1989), published while he was still a teenager.

In 1990 Wylie was invited to become a nominee of Magnum Photos and in 1998 he became a full member. Much of his work, often described as 'Archaeo-logies', has stemmed primarily to date from the political and social landscape of Northern Ireland. His book The Maze was published to international acclaim in 2004, as was British Watchtowers in 2007. In 2001 he won a BAFTA for his film The Train, and he has had solo exhibitions at the Photographers' Gallery, London, PhotoEspana, Madrid, and the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford, England. He has participated in numerous group shows held at, among other venues, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Exhibitions

2004/05 The Maze - Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Open
Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK; The Photographers Gallery, London, UK; Brighton
Contemporary Art Centre, Brighton, UK; Red Cross Museum, Geneva, Switzerland;
Festival Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain
1998/99 Losing Ground - National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford,
UK; Galerie Fait and Cause, Paris, France; Post Fuhramt, Berlin, Germany; Photo
Festival, Netherlands; Robert Mann Gallery (Group Show), New York, USA;
Barbican Centre, (Magnum Group Show), London, UK

Books

2004 The Maze, Granta, UK
1998 Losing Ground, 4th Estate, UK
1994 Notes from Moscow, Picador, UK
1994 Ireland: Singular Images, Andre Deutsch, UK
1992 Populations in Danger, J. Libbey, UK
1990 The Dispossessed (with Robert McLiam Wilson), Picador, UK
1989 32 Counties Photographs of Ireland, Secker & Warburg, UK

Films

2003 Jesus Comes To London, Channel 4/October Films
2002 The Train, Channel 4/October Films. (BAFTA: Best New Director for Factual Film)
2002 YoYo, Channel 4/October Films