SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER WINS DEUTSCHE BORSE PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
French photographer Sophie Ristelhueber has won this year’s Deutsche Borse Photography prize, reports the BBC. Ristelhueber won for her retrospective exhibition which was shown at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, last year.
For the past twenty-five years, Ristelhueber has examined the impact of human conflict on architecture and landscape in places such as Bosnia and Iraq. She was awarded the forty-eight-thousand-dollar prize at the Photographers’ Gallery, in London, by film director Terry Gilliam.
The international prize is awarded to a photographer for their work in Europe through either an exhibition or publication over the past year.
Ristelhueber was short-listed from more than one hundred submissions alongside Anna Fox (UK), Zoe Leonard (USA), and Donovan Wylie (UK), who each receive approximately forty-eight hundred dollars. This year’s jury was made up of Oliva Maria Rubio, director of exhibitions at La Fàbrica, Spain; Gilana Tawadros, chief executive of Design and Artists Copyright; Anne-Marie Beckmann, curator of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany; and artist James Welling.
Brett Rogers, nonvoting chair of the jury and director of the Photographers’ Gallery, said, on behalf of the jury: “Sophie Ristelhueber’s fragmented images explore the terrain of the real and imagined, addressing urgent issues of trauma, loss, memory, and conflict. Devoid of drama, her surgically precise images, radically installed, push the boundaries of the photographic medium.”
All the short-listed works are on show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London until April 8.
2009 Paul Graham (UK)
2008 Esko Männikkö (Finland)
2007 Walid Raad/the Atlas Group (Lebanon)
2006 Robert Adams (USA)
2005 Luc Delahaye (France)
2004 Joel Sternfeld (USA)
2003 Juergen Teller (Germany)
2002 Shirana Shahbazi (Iran)
2001 Boris Mikhailov (Ukraine)
2000 Anna Gaskell (USA)
1999 Rineke Dijkstra (Netherlands)
1998 Andreas Gursky (Germany)
1997 Richard Billingham (UK)
