Dale Washkansky

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Dale Washkansky (b. 1980) is an emerging contemporary South African artist. Working primarily in the medium of photography, he graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2006 and his graduate exhibition, Surface Tension, was received well with one review from ARTTHROB stating that his "harshly discordant photographs were especially convincing. His exercise in dark-room collage highlighted an incongruent relationship between the architecture of hallowed spaces and the sexual body. The result was a brilliant confrontation that conveyed the complexity of our interaction with the sacred." The work was singled out as an outstanding photographic contribution.

Previous exhibitions include a series of photographs that were part of the Cape Town Month of Photography.

Washkansky is descended from Lithuanian Jews, and his grandfather, Louis Washkansky, the recipient of the world's first human heart transplant, migrated with his family to South Africa in 1922.