David KaufmanDavid Kaufman is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Toronto. His photographic work focuses primarily on the architectural image and the urban landscape. His work in Eastern Europe is represented in a traveling exhibitio entitled The Posthumous Landscape: Jewish Historical Sites in Poland and Western Ukraine. His 2013 photo exhibition depicting Toronto heritage streetscapes, Early Sunday Morning, was named a must-see show of the prestigious CONTACT Photo Festival by Toronto Life and NOW Magazine. Other recent exhibitions include Architectural Devolution: Industrial Buildings in a Post-Industrial World, Built to Last: Montreal’s Enduring Architecture, and Vessels of Song: Faces of New Jewish Music.

Kaufman’s first film was the widely distributed biography A. M. Klein: The Poet as Landscape. He subsequently spent eighteen years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation working as a producer/director on two of its top programs, The Journal and The Fifth Estate, before moving to the independent film sector. Kaufman’s documentaries have appeared on CBC, PBS, Bravo!, and the History Channel and include feature programs about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Klezmer music revival. His most recent film, Song of the Lodz Ghetto, is a feature length work about the Łódź Ghetto and its famous street singer, Yankele Herszkowicz, with music performed by Brave Old World.