SELECTED AWARDS
2025 | OD Photo Prize, AJ Page Award
2024 | Magnum X Polaroid, Real Life is Not Black and White
2024 | GUP Magazine FRESH EYES 2024 International Talent
2023 | Winner, International Photography Award Encontros da Imagem
2023 | Then There Was Us, Ones To Watch 2023
SHORTLISTS & MENTIONS
2025 | Kuala Lumpur International Photoaward, Autoportrait Finalist
2025 | Lucie Foundation, Honourable Mention Emerging Fine Art
2024 | Joop Swart Masterclass, Nominee
2024 | Contemporary African Photography Prize, Shortlist
2024 | un/fund 2025, Shortlist
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 | Saint Laurent Babylone, D. M. Terblanche Photography Exhibition, as curated by Anthony Vaccarello
2024 | Encontros da Imagem, Solo Exhibition, Holyday
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2026 | Through the Lens Collective, It’s Been A Year
2025 | Open Doors Gallery, OD Photo Prize Exhibition
2025 | Lucie Foundation, Lucie Scholarship and Book Prize Exhibition
2025 | Gaze, der queere Photo-Award, Wir Existieren und Wir Bleiben
2025 | Photo Elysée, Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze
2024 | Magnum X Polaroid, Paris Photo: Real Life is Not Black and White
2024 | FNB Art Fair, Through the Lens Collective: The Uncanny
2024 | Through the Lens Collective, Salon Show August House
2023 | PhMuseum PhotoLab, The Window Is Always Wide Open
2023 | Der Greif, 15 Year Anniversary Displays
MENTORS & EDUCATION
2023–present | Through the Lens Collective, Mentee under Michelle Loukidis
2022–2023 | PhMuseum Masterclass CRITICAE 2022/2023, under Laura El-Tantawy
2020 | Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Online College of Art and Design, Cambridge
CURATORIAL & EDITORIAL WORK
2024–2025 | Mulberry Literary Journal, Poetry Editor
2023 | Too Tired Project, The Wildest Most Beautiful Ugly
2019 & 2023 | Foto Femme United, Curator
PUBLICATIONS AND FEATURES (SELECTION)
2025 | Prints for Wildlife, Fine Art Print - Fundraiser
2025 | Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze, Photo Elysée
2025 | Fanzine: D. M. Terblanche, as Curated By Anthony Vaccarello, Saint Laurent Rive Droite
2025 | Der Greif, Guest Room: Jo. Trujillo Argüelles & María Santoyo
2025 | Tombe Magazine, Issue Three: What Still Life
2024 | Encontros Da Imagem: Legacies of Colonialism
2024 | Fearless: GUP Fresheyes
2024 | See-Zeen, Issue 13: Visual Dialogue: D. M. Terblanche and Lisa Murray
2024 | Tombe Magazine, Issue One: D. M. Terblanche
2024 | Fisheye, Les coups de coeur #485: D.M. Terblanche et Juliette Seguin
2024 | Der Greif, Guest Room: Christiane Monarchi & Eva Eicker
2024 | See-Zeen, Issue 11
2023 | F-Stop Magazine, Collaboration: Alexa Cushing & DMT
2023 | Der Greif, Guest Room: Damarice Amao & Matthias Pfaller
2023 | IHRAM, Collected Works
2023 | International Human Rights Art Movement, Red
2023 | Unbroken Journal, Issue 38: An Autistic’s Guide To Being Human
2023 | Der Greif, Guest Room: Daniel Boetker-Smith & Tanvi-Mishra
2023 | Nowhere Diary, Holyday
2023 | Float Photo Magazine, Home is Where
2023 | The Curated Fridge, Spring Show
2022 | Color Tag Magazine, Vol V
WORKSHOPS (LED)
2026 (planned) | Erasmus-funded: Creative Writing & Self-Portrait Photography, Piano-Piano, Köln
2025 | Creative Writing: Home, for Persons with Migration Background, Lithuania
2024 | Autoportrait, An Introduction to Self-Portraiture, virtual workshop for students from the Philippines and UAE
INTERVIEWS (SELECTION)
2025 | In Conversation with D. M. Terblanche, The System
2024 | Dani Fez o Retrato da Vida com transtorno de Stress Pós-Traumático, Público
2023 | As Ek n Skoenlapper Was - SA Kunsfotograaf Skitter, Beeld Nuus