About Dana Popa

Dana Popa (Romania, 1977) is a documentary photographer working mostly in Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. She specialises in contemporary social issues, with a particular emphasis on human rights. Popa's work has been exhibited in solo shows in the UK at the Impressions Gallery in Bradford, Photo8 Gallery and Photofusion London, as well as in multiple international group shows. Her photographs are part of museums' permanent collections, including Musee de l'Elysee, Portland Art Museum, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts,
Her series not Natasha received the First Prize Project Competition at Center
Santa Fe, NM, the Jerwood Photography Award, as well as the Jury Prize in the
Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards. This series has been
commissioned by Autograph ABP, London and published as an artist book(2009). Her photographs appear in other books, such as: Body, by Natalie Herschdorfer, Thames and Husdon 2019, New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature, by Pietr

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