The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and

The Photographers' Gallery The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London by Sue Davies opening on 14 January 1971, as the first public gallery in the United Kingdom devoted solely to photography. It is also home to the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, established i ...

to a photographer who has made the most significant contribution to the photographic medium in Europe during the past year. The prize was set up in 1996 by The Photographers' Gallery, London. From 1997 to 2004 it was called the Citigroup Photography Prize or Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize.

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has sponsored the competition since 2005, with a £30,000 prize. At that point it became the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. It was renamed the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2016 to reflect its new position within the a specifically established non-profit organisation. It has been described as "the biggest of its kind in photography in Europe" and "the most prestigious".

History

The prize was set up in 1996 by

, London, with the intention of promoting the finest contemporary photography. Between 1997 and 2004, the prize was known as the Citigroup Photography Prize.

has sponsored the competition since 2005, with a £30,000 prize. At that point it was renamed the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. It was renamed again to the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2016, "to reflect its new position within the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, a specifically established non-profit organisation focused on the collecting, exhibiting and promoting of contemporary photography."

Winners and shortlisted artists

Winners of the Citigroup Photography Prize (1997–2004): *1997 winner Richard Billingham, shortlisted

Uta Barth Uta Barth (born 1958) is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place. Her early work emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s, "inverting the notion of background and foreg ...

Mat Collishaw Matthew "Mat" Collishaw Hon. FRPS (born 6 January 1966) is an English artist based in London. Collishaw's work uses photography and video. His best known work is ''Bullet Hole'' (1988), which is a closeup photo of what appears to be a bull ...

Philip-Lorca diCorcia Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) is an American photographer, living in New York City. He teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.Release: David Zwirner - Philip-Lorca diCorcia: ''Thousand'' (February 27 - March 28, 2009). Retrieved ...

Catherine Yass Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an English artist known for her wall-mounted lightboxes. Biography Catherine Yass was born in 1963 in London. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and Goldsmiths College. ...

*1998 winner

Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view. His works ...

, shortlisted

Thomas Demand Thomas Cyrill Demand (born 1964) is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. Demand had his first solo exhibition at Tanit Galerie in Munich ...

, Paul Graham, Katia Liebmann,

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory. Early life and education Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He reportedly took his earliest photographs ...

*1999 winner

Rineke Dijkstra Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam.Alex Hartley,

Yinka Shonibare Yinka Shonibare (born 9 August 1962), is a British-Nigerian artist living in the United Kingdom. His work explores cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. A hallmark of his art is t ...

, Paul M. Smith *2000 winner

Anna Gaskell Anna Gaskell (born October 22, 1969) is an American art photographer and artist from Des Moines, Iowa. She is best known for her photographic series that she calls "elliptical narratives" which are similar to the works produced by Cindy Sherman. ...

, shortlisted

James Casebere James Casebere (born 1953) is an American contemporary artist and photographer living in New York and Canaan, New York. Biography Casebere, born in Lansing, Michigan, grew up outside of Detroit. He attended Michigan State University and gradua ...

, Jitka Hanzlová, Tim Macmillan,

Tracey Moffatt Tracey Moffatt (born 12 November 1960) is an Indigenous Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video. In 2017 she represented Australia at the 57th Venice Biennale with her solo exhibition, "My Horizon". Her works are held in th ...

*2001 winner Boris Mikhailov, shortlisted

Roni Horn Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955) is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels an ...

Hellen van Meene Hellen van Meene (born 28 September 1972) is a Dutch photographer known especially for her portraits. For her portraits, she most often approaches girls on the street. She chooses her subject matter by finding girls who "could be said to have � ...

Jem Southam Jem Southam (born 1950) is a British landscape photographer and educator. He has had solo exhibitions at Tate St Ives, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Lowry, and the Royal West of England Academy. Southam's work is held in the collections of t ...

Hannah Starkey Hannah Starkey (born 1971) is a British photographer who specializes in staged settings of women in city environments, based in London. In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. ''Hannah Starkey: In Real L ...

*2002 winner

Shirana Shahbazi Shirana Shahbazi (; born 1974) is an Iranian-born photographer who now lives in Switzerland. Her work includes installations and large prints of conceptual photography. Biography Born in Tehran, Shahbazi moved to Germany in 1985, studying photogr ...

, shortlisted

Roger Ballen Roger Ballen (born April 11, 1950) is an American artist living in Johannesburg, South Africa, and working in its surrounds since the 1970s. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, began with the documentary photography field but evolved into the ...

Elina Brotherus Elina Brotherus (born 29 April 1972) is a Finnish photographer and video artist specializing in self-portraits and landscapes. Life Brotherus was born in Helsinki. She earned an M.S. in analytical chemistry from the University of Helsinki in 199 ...

Thomas Ruff Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images". Ruff shares a studio on Düsseldorf's Hansaallee, with fellow German ...

*2003 winner

Juergen Teller Juergen Teller (born 28 January 1964) is a German fine-art and fashion photographer. He was awarded the Citibank Prize for Photography in 2003 and received the Special Presentation International Center of Photography Infinity Award in 2018. Maj ...

, shortlisted Jitka Hanzlová, Bertien van Manen,

Simon Norfolk Simon Norfolk (born 1963) is a Nigerian-born British architectural and landscape photographer. He has produced four photo book monographs of his work. His photographs are held in over a dozen public museum collections. Life and work Norfolk was b ...

*2004 winner

Joel Sternfeld Joel Sternfeld (born June 30, 1944) is an American fine-art color photographer. He is noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. Sternfeld's work is ...

, shortlisted Robert Adams,

Peter Fraser Peter Fraser (; 28 August 1884 – 12 December 1950) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 24th prime minister of New Zealand from 27 March 1940 until 13 December 1949. Considered a major figure in the history of the New Zealand La ...

David Goldblatt David Goldblatt HonFRPS (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid.Weinberg, Paul.David Goldblatt: Photographer Who Found the Human in an Inhuman ...

Winners and shortlisted artists of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2005–present): *2005 winner Luc Delahaye for his exhibition ''Luc Delahaye–Photographs'' at National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK. Shortlisted were

JH Engström JH Engström (born 1969) is a Swedish photographer and artist based in Stockholm. He was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2005. Biography Engström was born 1969 in Karlstad, Sweden. He graduated in 1997 from the Photograp ...

, for the publication ''Trying to Dance'' (Journal, 2004); Jörg Sasse for his exhibition at Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt; and Stephen Shore, for the publication ''Uncommon Places: The Complete Works'' ( Thames & Hudson, 2004). *2006 winner Robert Adams for his exhibition ''Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration'' at Haus der Kunst, Munich. Shortlisted were

Yto Barrada Yto Barrada (born 1971) is a Franco-Moroccan multimedia visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco and New York City. Barrada cofounded the Cinémathèque de Tanger in 2006, leading a group of artists and filmmakers. Barrada also wor ...

for his exhibition ''A Life Full of Holes – the Strait Project'' at

Open Eye Gallery Open Eye Gallery is a photography gallery and archive in Liverpool, UK that was established in 1977. It is housed in a purpose-built building on the waterfront at Mann Island, its fourth location. Open Eye Gallery comprises an exhibition space ...

, Liverpool; Phil Collins for his exhibition ''yeah…..you, baby you'' at Milton Keynes Gallery, UK; and

Alec Soth Alec Soth (born 1969) is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis. Soth makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. ''New York Times'' art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic care ...

for his exhibition ''Sleeping by the Mississippi'' at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. *2007 winner

Walid Raad Walid Raad (Ra'ad) (Arabic: وليد رعد) (born 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad. He lives and works in New York, where he is curr ...

for his exhibition ''The Atlas Group Project'' at Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Shortlisted were Philippe Chancel for his exhibition ''DPRK'' at Les Rencontres d'Arles, France; Anders Petersen for his exhibition ''À propos de Gap et de Saint-Étienne'' at Les Rencontres d'Arles, France; and

Fiona Tan Fiona Tan (born 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia) is a visual artist primarily known for her photography, film and video art installations. With her own complex cultural background, Tan's work is known for its skillful craftsmanship and emotional int ...

for her exhibition ''Mirror Maker'' at Landesgalerie Linz, Austria. *2008 winner Esko Männikkö for his exhibition ''Cocktails 1990–2007'' at

Millesgården Millesgården is an art museum and sculpture garden, located on the island of Lidingö in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located in the grounds of the former home of sculptor Carl Milles (1875–1955) and his wife, the artist Olga Milles (1874–1967). ...

, Stockholm. Shortlisted were John Davies for his exhibition ''The British Landscape'' at

National Media Museum The National Science and Media Museum (formerly The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1983–2006 and then the National Media Museum, 2006–2017), located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is part of the national Science Museum G ...

, Bradford, UK;

Jacob Holdt Jacob Holdt (born 29 April 1947) is a Danish photographer, writer and lecturer. His mammoth work, ''American Pictures'', gained international fame in 1977 for its effective photographic revelations about the hardships of America's lower classes. ...

, for the publication ''Jacob Holdt, United States 1970–1975'' (

Steidl Steidl is a German-language publisher, an international publisher of photobooks, and a printing company, based in Göttingen, Germany. It was started in 1968 by Gerhard Steidl and is still run by him. Overview The company was started by Ger ...

, 2007); and

Fazal Sheikh Fazal Sheikh (born June 27, 1965 in New York City) is an artist who uses photographs to document people living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world. Life and career Fazal Sheikh is an artist who uses photographs to document ...

, for the publication ''Ladli'' (

, 2007). *2009 winner Paul Graham, for the publication ''A Shimmer of Possibility'' ( steidlMACK, 2007). Shortlisted were

Emily Jacir Emily Jacir ( ar, املي جاسر) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker. Biography Jacir was born in Bethlehem in 1973, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She attended the University of Dallas, Memp ...

for her exhibition ''Material For A Film'' at the 52nd Biennale of Art in Venice;

Tod Papageorge Tod Papageorge (born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire United States, 1940) is an American photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and two NEA Visu ...

for his exhibition ''Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park'' at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and

Taryn Simon Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975) is an American multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Currently residing and maintaining a studio practice in New York City, Simon has had work featured in the Ve ...

for her project ''An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar''. * 2010 winner Sophie Ristelhueber for her self-titled exhibition at

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, Paris. Shortlisted were

Anna Fox Anna Fox (born 1961) is a British documentary photographer, known for a "combative, highly charged use of flash and colour". In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Career and work Fox completed her degr ...

for her exhibition ''Cockroach Diaries & Other Stories'' at

Ffotogallery Ffotogallery is the national development agency for photography in Wales. It was established in 1978 and since June 2019 has been based in Cathays, Cardiff. It also commissions touring exhibitions nationally and internationally. Its current dire ...

, Cardiff, Wales;

Zoe Leonard Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an American artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture. She has exhibited widely since the late 1980s and her work has been included in a number of seminal exhibitions including Documenta IX and Document ...

for her exhibition ''Zoe Leonard: Photographs'' at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and Donovan Wylie for his exhibition ''MAZE 2007/8'' at

Belfast Exposed Belfast Exposed is a photography gallery in Belfast, established in 1983. It was Northern Ireland's first dedicated photographic gallery and in 2018 Sean O'Hagan in ''The Guardian'' described it as "the key independent space for contemporary pho ...

, UK. * 2011 winner Jim Goldberg for his exhibition ''Open See'' at

, London. Shortlisted were

for his exhibition ''Nationalgalerie'' at

Neue Nationalgalerie The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century. It is part of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. The museum building and its s ...

, Berlin; Roe Ethridge for his exhibition at Les Rencontres d'Arles, France; and Elad Lassry for his self-titled exhibition at

Kunsthalle Zürich The Kunsthalle Zürich is a contemporary art exhibition centre in Zurich, Switzerland. It is located on Limmatstrasse, near the city centre. A number of temporary exhibitions are organized each year. In 2014 Daniel Baumann replaced Beatrix Ruf ...

. * 2012 winner

John Stezaker John Grenville Stezaker (born 1949) is a British conceptual artist. Biography and career Stezaker attended the Slade School of Art in London in his early teens, he graduated with a Higher Diploma in Fine Art in 1973. In the early 1970s, he was am ...

for his self-titled exhibition at

Whitechapel Gallery The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The original building, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opened in 1901 as one of the fir ...

, London. Shortlisted were Pieter Hugo, for the publication ''Permanent Error'' (

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, 2011);

Rinko Kawauchi Rinko Kawauchi HonFRPS (川内倫子, ''Kawauchi Rinko,'' born 1972) is a Japanese photographer. Her work is characterized by a serene, poetic style, depicting the ordinary moments in life. Life and work Kawauchi became interested in photograp ...

, for the publication ''Illuminance'' ( Kehrer, 2011); and Christopher Williams for his exhibition ''Kapitalistischer Realismus'' at Dům umění České Budějovice, Budweis,

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

. * 2013 winners

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin Adam Broomberg (born 1970) and Oliver Chanarin (born 1971) are artists living and working in London. Together they have had numerous international exhibitions. Their work is represented in major public and private collections. They were awarded th ...

, for the publication ''War Primer 2'' ( MACK, 2012). Shortlisted were

Chris Killip Christopher David Killip (11 July 1946 – 13 October 2020) was a Manx photographer who worked at Harvard University from 1991 to 2017, as a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies. Killip is known for his black and white images of people ...

for his exhibition ''What Happened – Great Britain 1970–1990'' at Le Bal, Paris; Cristina de Middel, for her self-published photobook ''The Afronauts'' (2011); and Mishka Henner for his exhibition ''No Man's Land'' at FotoGrafia. Festival internazionale di Roma, MACRO, Rome. * 2014 winner

Richard Mosse Richard Mosse (born 1980) is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer. Early life and education Mosse was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. He lives and works in New York and Berlin. He received a first class BA in English literature from Ki ...

for his exhibition ''The Enclave'' at the 55th Biennale of Art in Venice. Shortlisted were Alberto García-Alix, for the publication ''Autorretrato/Selfportrait'' (La Fábrica, 2014);

Jochen Lempert Jochen Lempert (born 1958 in Moers) is a German photographer whose work is about the world of nature and animals. Lempert first studied as a biologist before turning to photography in the early 1990s. Accordingly, his pictures are marked with sc ...

for his self-titled exhibition at

Hamburger Kunsthalle The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. The museum consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869 (main building), 1921 (Kuppelsaa ...

, Hamburg; and

Lorna Simpson Lorna Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is an American photographer and multimedia artist. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as ''Guarded Conditions'' and ''Square Deal''. Simpson is most well-known for her work in c ...

for her exhibition ''Lorna Simpson (Retrospective)'' at

, Paris. * 2015 winners

Mikhael Subotzky Mikhael Subotzky (born Cape Town, South Africa, 1981) is a South African artist based in Johannesburg. His installation, film, video and photographic work have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries, and received awards including the KLM ...

and Patrick Waterhouse, for the publication ''Ponte City'' (

, 2014). Shortlisted were Nikolai Bakharev for his exhibition at the 55th Biennale of Art in Venice;

Zanele Muholi Zanele Muholi (born 19 July 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000's, documen ...

, for the publication ''Faces and Phases 2006–2014'' (

and The Walther Collection, 2014); and

Viviane Sassen Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is a Dutch artist living in Amsterdam. She is a photographer who works in both the fashion and fine art world. She is known for her use of geometric shapes, often abstractions of bodies. She has been widely published an ...

for her exhibition ''Umbra'' at Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam. * 2016 winner

Trevor Paglen Trevor Paglen (born 1974) is an American artist, geographer, and author whose work tackles mass surveillance and data collection. In 2016, Paglen won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and he has also won The Cultural Award from the ...

for his exhibition ''The Octopus'' at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. Shortlisted were

Erik Kessels Erik Kessels (1966) is a Dutch artist, designer and curator with a particular interest in photography, and co-founder of KesselsKramer, an advertising agency in Amsterdam. Kessels and Johan Kramer established the "legendary and unorthodox" Kessels ...

for his exhibition ''Unfinished Father'' at Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Laura El-Tantawy, for her self-published photobook ''In the Shadow of the Pyramids'' (2015); and

Tobias Zielony Tobias Zielony (born 1973) is a German photographer and short filmmaker, living in Berlin. He has made work about communities at the margins of society, such as young people. In 2015, Zielony's series on African refugees in Germany, ''the Citizen' ...

for his exhibition ''The Citizen'' at the 56th Biennale of Art in Venice. * 2017 winner

Dana Lixenberg Dana Lixenberg (born 1964)Hay, David ''The New York Times'', May 30, 1999 is a Dutch photographer and filmmaker.Knight, Christopher ''Los Angeles Times'', May 28, 1999 She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Lixenberg pursues long-term proje ...

, for her publication ''Imperial Courts'' (Roma, 2015). Shortlisted:

Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. ...

, for her publication ''My All'' (Actes Sud, 2016);

Awoiska van der Molen Awoiska van der Molen (born 1972) is a Dutch photographer, living in Amsterdam. She has produced three books of black and white landscape photographs, made in remote places. Van der Molen has been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography ...

for her exhibition ''Blanco'' at

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Foam or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam is a photography museum located at the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The museum has four different exhibitions at any given time in which different photographic genres are shown, such as documen ...

; and Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs for their exhibition ''Eurasia'' at

Fotomuseum Winterthur Fotomuseum Winterthur is a museum of photography in Winterthur, Switzerland. History The museum was founded in 1993 and is dedicated to photography as art form and document, and as a representation of reality. Fotomuseum Winterthur is an art g ...

, Switzerland. * 2018 winner Luke Willis Thompson for his exhibition ''autoportrait'' at Chisenhale Gallery, London. Shortlisted: Mathieu Asselin, for his publication ''Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation'' (Actes Sud, 2017); Rafał Milach for his exhibition ''Refusal'' at Atlas Sztuki Gallery,

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, Poland; and Batia Suter, for her publication ''Parallel Encyclopedia #2'' (Roma, 2016). * 2019 winner

Susan Meiselas Susan Meiselas (born June 21, 1948) is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. Currently she is the President of the Magnum Foundation. She is best known for h ...

, for her exhibition ''Mediations'' at

Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume Jeu de Paume ( en, Real Tennis Court) is an arts centre for modern and postmodern photography and media. It is located in the north corner (west side) of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. In 2004, Galerie Nationale ...

, Paris. Shortlisted:

Laia Abril Laia Abril (born 1986) is a Catalan artist whose work relates to bio-politics, grief and women rights. Her books include ''The Epilogue'' (2014), which documents the indirect victims of eating disorders; and a long-term project ''A History of Misog ...

, for her publication ''On Abortion'' (

Dewi Lewis Publishing Dewi may refer to either a Welsh or Southeast Asian name. Neither is pronounced as "dewy". Welsh name Dewi (, also or ) is an alternate or diminutive form of the Welsh masculine given name Dafydd ("David"). It is most famously borne by the p ...

, 2017); Arwed Messmer, for his exhibition ''RAF – No Evidence / Kein Beweis'' at Zephyr – Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim; and Mark Ruwedel, for his exhibition ''Artist and Society: Mark Ruwedel'' at

Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It ...

, London. * 2020 winner: Mohamed Bourouissa for his exhibition ''Free Trade'' at

Rencontres d'Arles The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly called ''Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles'') is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historia ...

. Shortlisted: Anton Kusters for his exhibition ''The Blue Skies Project'' at

Fitzrovia Chapel The Fitzrovia Chapel is situated in Pearson Square, in the centre of the Fitzroy Place development, bordered by Mortimer Street, Cleveland Street, Nassau Street and Riding House Street in Fitzrovia, Westminster. The chapel was designed by John Lo ...

, London; Mark Neville for his publication ''Parade'' (Centre d'Art GwinZegal, 2019); and Clare Strand for her exhibition ''The Discrete Channel with Noise'' at

PHotoEspaña PHotoEspaña, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts of Madrid, is a photography forum that began in 1998. The Festival’s program presents work by Spanish and international image-makers. It runs an awards programme with sever ...

, Madrid. *2021 winner:

Cao Fei Cao Fei ( zh, 曹斐; born 1978) is a Chinese multimedia artist born in Guangzhou. Her work, which includes video, performance, and digital media, examines the daily life of Chinese citizens born after the Cultural Revolution. Her work explores Chi ...

's exhibition ''Blueprints'' at

Serpentine Galleries The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Central London. Recently rebranded to just Serpentine, the organisation is split across Serpentine South, previously known as the Serpentine Gallery, ...

, London in 2020. Shortlisted: Poulomi Basu's ''Centralia'' (

Dewi Lewis Dewi Lewis (born 10 March 1951) is a Welsh publisher and curator of photography. Career In 1975, Lewis was the founding director of the Bury Metropolitan Arts Association which operates the Met. Lewis also founded and was the first director o ...

, 2020); Alejandro Cartagena's ''A Small Guide to Homeownership'' (Velvet Cell, 2020); and Zineb Sedira's exhibition ''Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go'' at

, Paris in 2019. *2022 shortlist:

Bieke Depoorter Bieke Depoorter (born 1986) is a Belgian photographer. The relationships she establishes with her subjects lie at the foundation of her practice. Depoorter is a member of Magnum Photos and has published the books ''Ou Menya'' (2011), ''I am About ...

for her exhibition ''A Chance Encounter'' at C/O Berlin; Samuel Fosso for his exhibition ''Samuel Fosso'' at the

Maison européenne de la photographie The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP; European house of photography), located in the historic heart of Paris, is a center for contemporary photographic art opened in February 1996. Location and activities The Hotel Henault de Cantobre, ...

; Arthur Jafa for his exhibition ''Live Evil'' at Luma, Arles; and for her exhibition ''I have seen a million pictures of my face and still I have no idea'' at

Associated publications

*''Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016.'' London: The Photographers' Gallery, 2016. Photographs by Laura El-Tantawy, Erik Kessels, Trevor Paglen, and Tobias Zielony. With essays on the artists by Yasmine El Rashidi, Francesco Zanot, Tom Holert, and Florian Ebner. *''Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017 Catalogue.'' London: The Photographers' Gallery, 2017. Photographs by Dana Lixenberg, Sophie Calle, Taiyo Onarato and Nico Krebs, and Awoiska van der Molen. With texts by Laurie Anderson, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Yve Lomax and Jason Evans.

References

External links

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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013
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A History of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
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