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.
Deutsche Börse
Deutsche Börse AG () or the Deutsche Börse Group, is a German company offering marketplace organizing for the trading of shares and other securities. It is also a transaction services provider. It gives companies and investors access to gl ...
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
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 ...
, London, with the intention of promoting the finest contemporary photography. Between 1997 and 2004, the prize was known as the Citigroup Photography Prize.
Deutsche Börse
Deutsche Börse AG () or the Deutsche Börse Group, is a German company offering marketplace organizing for the trading of shares and other securities. It is also a transaction services provider. It gives companies and investors access to gl ...
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
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,
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
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,
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
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Demand had his first solo exhibition at Tanit Galerie in Munich ...
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
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Anna Gaskell
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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 ...
Tracey Moffatt
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In 2017 she represented Australia at the 57th Venice Biennale with her solo exhibition, "My Horizon". Her works are held in th ...
Roni Horn
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,
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
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Southam's work is held in the collections of t ...
,
Hannah Starkey
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''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
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,
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 ...
,
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 ...
,
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
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Maj ...
Simon Norfolk
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Life and work
Norfolk was b ...
*2004 winner
Joel Sternfeld
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Sternfeld's work is ...
Peter Fraser
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,
David Goldblatt
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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
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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'' (
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).
*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
Jeu de Paume
''Jeu de paume'' (, ; originally spelled ; ), nowadays known as real tennis, (US) court tennis or (in France) ''courte paume'', is a ball-and-court game that originated in France. It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets, a ...
, 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 ...
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
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 ...
, London. Shortlisted were
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 ...
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 ...
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'' (
Prestel
Prestel (abbrev. from press telephone), the brand name for the UK Post Office Telecommunications's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979. It achieved a maxim ...
, 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
Jeu de Paume
''Jeu de paume'' (, ; originally spelled ; ), nowadays known as real tennis, (US) court tennis or (in France) ''courte paume'', is a ball-and-court game that originated in France. It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets, a ...
, Paris.
* 2015 winners
Mikhael Subotzky
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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 ...
, 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'' (
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 ...
Viviane Sassen
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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 ...
Erik Kessels
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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 ...
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...
, 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
Jeu de Paume
''Jeu de paume'' (, ; originally spelled ; ), nowadays known as real tennis, (US) court tennis or (in France) ''courte paume'', is a ball-and-court game that originated in France. It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets, a ...
, 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
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 ...
.
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.