Anna Fox, Country Girls 1999 From the series Country Girls 1996 - 2001 © Anna Fox and Alison Goldfrapp
The Photographers’ Gallery in London has announced the shortlist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010.
The annual award of £30,000 rewards a living photographer of any nationality who has made the most significant contribution in exhibition or publication format to the medium of photography in Europe between October 2008 and September 30 2009.
Donovan Wylie, Deconstruction of the Maze prison. Northern Ireland. 2009.© Donovan Wylie/ Magnum Photos
This year’s shortlisted artists are: Anna Fox for her exhibition Cockroach Diaries and Other Stories, Zoe Leonard for her retrospective exhibition ZOE LEONARD: photographs, Sophie Ristelhueber for her retrospective Sophie Ristelhueber and Donovan Wylie for his exhibition MAZE 2007/8.
“The four finalists all manifest a sustained commitment to investigating the nature and role of the photographic image,” said Brett Rogers Chair of the Jury and Director of the Photographers’ Gallery.
“Each of them in their own way explores pertinent ideas around gender, nationality surveillance and political conflict.”
(Above) Zoe Leonard, Image from Analogue, 1998-2009 © Zoe Leonard. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
He added: “Donovan Wylie investigates the psychology of architecture through one of Ireland’s most oppressive institutions, the Maze prison; Zoe Leonard traverses photographic genres in her unique approach to urban anthropology; Anna Fox dissects the bizarre and the ordinary in British life; and Sophie Ristelhueber reveals the marks of history on the physical and human landscape.”
The exhibition will be on display from February 12 2010 until April 18 2010 and the winner will be announced on March 17 2010.
(Above)Sophie Ristelhueber, WB (n°7), 2005 © Sophie Ristelhueber/adagp
This year’s Jury is: Olivia Maria Rubio (Director of Exhibitions, La Fàbrica, Spain); Gilane Tawadros (Chief Executive, Design Artists Copyright Society, curator and writer); James Welling (artist, USA); and Anne-Marie Beckmann (Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany). Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, is the non-voting Chair.
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