(b. Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1971)
Wylie’s photography is often described as 'Archaeologies', and stems primarily fromthe political and social landscape of Northern Ireland, where he grewup. His book The Maze, a photographic survey of the infamous prison inNorthern Ireland, was published to international acclaim in 2004, andbegan Wylie’s ongoing photographic study of military architecture.His photographs look at the specific nature of modern military structures, and reveal the visual relationships they haveto landscape. Wylie’s work engages in subtlerconcepts of history, transience and territory.
Wylie’s solo exhibitions include; The Photographers' Gallery, London (2004) and at National Media Museum, Bradford 1996, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007), and he has participated in numerous group shows including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Pompidou Centre, Paris. His books include, Maze, (Steidl 2009), British Watchtowers (Steidl, 2007), Scrapbook, (Steidl/AMC 2009), and Outposts (Steidl, 2011). In 2001 he won a Bafta for his film The Train. In 2011 he was awarded the Bradford Fellowship in Photography, and in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, London, made a photographic survey of Forward Operating Bases in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. He was a finalist of the 2010 DuetscheBorse Photography Prize. Donovan Wylie is also lecturer in Photography at the University of Ulster, Belfast.
