Hydar Dewachi’s practice fuses photography, film, design, and poetry, often in a documentary, semi-autobiographical context.
Whether a commissioned or self-produced project, Hydar’s work spans documentary, portraiture and photographing live performances. His latest work includes the flora portraits series Adagio; his experiments in colour and abstraction capturing the energy of music; and his life-long journaling project. Hydar’s film works – often an artistic interpretation of art projects – include art films, performances, profiles and short documentaries. In 2016 he undertook a year-long artist residency with Jerwood Arts to explore the documentation of art projects.
Since 2017, Hydar has been the photographer for the V&A’s flagship Friday Late programme. Other long term and regular clients include Art Fund (including Museum of the Year award), The National Gallery, Tate, Acme, and Camden Art Centre.
Hydar has been a guest lecturer on postgraduate courses at universities in London and internationally, and in 2018 and 2019 he mentored artists as part of University of Agder’s Arts-based Ethnography course in Lesvos.
Hydar lives in London and has a MSc (1999) and BSc (1996) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Baghdad.
Full list of clients (past and present)
Acme • Arab British Centre • arebyte • Art Fund • Artsadmin • Barbican Centre • Bow Arts • Brent Biennial 2020 • Camden Art Centre • CGP London • City, University of London • Corali Dance Company • Culture+Conflict • Feedback Theatre • Film and Video Umbrella • Freelands Foundation • Furtherfield • Gasworks • Grizedale Arts • Hayward Touring • The National Lottery Heritage Fund • The House of St. Barnabas • Ibraaz • ICA • Jerwood Arts • Kamel Lazaar Foundation (Tunisia) • Kingston Centre for Independent Living • Leighton House • Lower Hewood Farm • The National Gallery • The PappyShow • Parasol Unit • Picturehouse Cinemas • Platform Nord (Norway) • Serpentine Galleries • Spitalfields Music Festival • Station House Opera • Tate • Thames Festival • Theatre with Legs • Townhouse Gallery (Cairo) • UCL • University of Agder (Norway) • University of Westminster • UP Projects • V&A Museum.
» Download the full CV (PDF) (updated February 2017)