Career
Weber focuses on the effects of world power, how state power functions the world over and how those in power use theatre to coerce their subjects. He seeks to uncover the unspoken collaboration between the parties with his photography. He worked in the Ukraine and Russia for seven years, making numerous visits beginning in 2005.
In 2010 and 2011 for his book Interrogations he investigated the power relationship between police and criminals by photographing people being interrogated by Ukrainian police and subjected to both psychological and physical abuse in order to extract information.
Weber has spoken about how these techniques are not specific to the Ukraine but are standard police practice and used elsewhere, for example in Canada. In The Photobook: A History, Volume
3, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger praised Interrogations, writing "Weber"s vision is clear-eyed and unflinching in its sober directness, which makes it both effective and discomforting to look at."
Solo exhibitions
2009: The Drunken Bride, Russia Unveiled, Pikto Galllery, Toronto, Canada, 29 April – 31 May 2009. 2009: Russian Archive, Alice Austen House, New York, New New York
2007: PHODAR Photography Biennial, PHODAR Foundation, Pleven, Bulgaria.
Group exhibitions and exhibitions with others
2013: Interrogations, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, England, 21 February – 2 April 2013. With Maciej Dakowicz. 2014: Shift: Ukraine in crisis, Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, 3 May – 29 June 2014.
Photographs by Alexander Chekmenev, Maxim Dondyuk, Corentin Fohlen, Louisa Gouliamaki, Brendan Hoffman, Tom Jamieson, Marco Kesseler, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Donald Weber and Emine Ziyatdinova.