David Burdeny
About
David Burdeny (b. 1968, Winnipeg, Canada) graduated with a Master's in Architecture and Interior Design and spent the early part of his career practicing in his field before establishing himself as a photographer. Burdeny translates his intimate appreciation for space's structure, details, and symbolic value into sublime observations about how the contemporary world remains pregnant with mystery and potential. His early square-format black-and-white work rendered space in stark, elemental terms. The spare landscapes seemed modeled as liminal spaces, thresholds, portals, and points of departure that lead the viewer into a complex intimacy with the expressive force of empirical awareness. In subsequent series, Burdeny has explored opulent and austere interior scenes that use color's sensuality to full effect. Whether focused on ordinary spaces or iconic settings, Burdeny's photographs occupy an artistic middle ground between the physical and the atmospheric, the concrete and the spiritual, the actual and the idealized. They represent not strictly what he found, but his personal experience of these enigmatic, luminous locations.
Burdeny has featured his photographic series in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the US, and throughout Europe. His work has also been widely published, including, most recently, Casa Vogue, The Guardian, The Corriere della Sera, and the Moscow Times, and has received multiple International Photography Awards. In 2016, David was selected as International Nature Photographer of the Year for his series Salt.
David Burdeny lives in Delta, B.C., and works from his Vancouver studio.
