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Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022
Exhibition
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022
25 Mar 2022 – 12 Jun 2022
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 19:00
Cost of entry
£5 / £2.50 Concession
Address
- 16-18 Ramillies Street
- Soho
- London
- W1F 7LW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Just off Oxford Street so accessible by bus services to Oxford Street and a 2 minute walk from Oxford Circus Tube Station.
The 2022 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize exhibition presents the nominated projects from this year’s shortlisted artists, Anastasia Samoylova, Jo Ractliffe, Deana Lawson and Gilles Peress.
About
Each of the projects display a unique perspective on pictorial representation, with the artists taking a distinctive approach to the medium of photography and focusing on subject matter linked to a specific region or community. What the projects share is an approach that is monumental in ambition and scale whether that be personal, practical, philosophical or political. The extensive research and commitment reflected in the work of Jo Ractliffe and Gilles Peress, whose focus on post-Apartheid South Africa and on the streets of Northern Ireland respectively, propose new ways to picture, and to historicise, conflict and its aftermath. Deana Lawson’s reframing and reclaiming of the Black experience positions a potent iconography that underlines and undermines received histories of representation; while for Anastasia Samoylova, personal experience of climate change in Florida reveals the stark dissonance between idealised imagery and the reality of rising tides.
The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced at a special award ceremony held at the Gallery on 12 May 2022, with the other finalists each receiving £5,000.
The exhibition, curated by Katrina Schwarz, opens at The Photographers’ Gallery, London on the 25 March and runs until the 12 June 2022. It then tours to Deutsche Börse’s headquarters in Eschborn, Frankfurt on 30 June 2022, home to an internationally renowned collection of contemporary photography.
