Originally from Toronto, Canada, Don is an award-winning photographer currently residing between Moscow and Kiev. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and has also received the Lange-Taylor Documentary Grant, awarded annually by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, with writer Larry Frolick, and a World Press Award. Amongst other citations, Weber is listed in the Magenta Foundation’s Carte Blanche, a compendium of the best in Canadian photography and Flash Forward, an annual survey of emerging photographers from Canada, the USA and the United Kingdom.

Prior to photography, Don worked as an architect for Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has also received a Governor’s General Gold medal for Architecture while working in Canada.

Don has exhibited widely and has had his work shown during the Voies Off Festval at Rencontres des Arles, France. His work won the Grand Prize for the 2007 PHODAR Photography Biennial in Bulgaria. He has completed assignments for such international publications as: Business Week, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, The London Times, Maclean’s, The New York Times, Newsweek, Conde Nast Portfolio, Rolling Stone, Stern, The Sunday Telegraph, Time and the NGO’s Medecins sans Frontieres and War Child. Don is represented by the VII Network.

His Guggenheim Fellowship is allowing him to continue work on a book about life in Russia. It’s about the curse of power, and the wounds it inflicts on those who don’t have it. It’s the 18th Century with jets flying overhead. His first book, ‘Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl’, will be released in Spring 2008.