2023 sees Dewi Lewis Publishing celebrate 30 years as an independent publisher. Founded in 1994, it is a partnership owned and run by husband and wife, Dewi Lewis and Caroline Warhurst.
Best known as a photobook publisher the company has also published award winning fiction with titles shortlisted and longlisted for the Booker Prize. It has also ventured into Sports publishing with titles that have included the highly successful biography of José Mourinho, Made in Portugal.
Its photography list has an international reputation and has included books by leading British and international photographers such as Laia Abril, William Klein, Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Fay Godwin, Tom Wood, Sergio Larrain, Frank Horvat, John Blakemore, Paolo Pelegrin, Simon Roberts and Bruce Gilden. The ambition of the company is to bring to the attention of a wider public, accessible but challenging contemporary photography by both established and lesser known practitioners. It publishes up to 20 new titles each year and its books are distributed worldwide. It was a founding member of The European Publishers Award for Photography, which ran from 1994 to 2016. In 2014 Dewi Lewis Publishing received the PHotoEspana’s prize for Outstanding Publishing House of the Year and in 2018 the company won both the Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Photobook of The Year Award and the Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Prize.