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The Photographers’ Gallery in London has been exhibiting works by the four finalists of the “Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007” since Thursday. The four artists are Philippe Chancel, Anders Petersen, Fiona Tan and Walid Raad / The Atlas Group. The candidates were nominated by an international academy, a group of 75 European photography experts that were invited by the Photographers’ Gallery to propose artists for the award. Deutsche Börse has been the main sponsor of this major international photography award since 2005.
The prize, worth GBP 30,000, will be awarded on 21 March in the Photographers’ Gallery. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize goes every year to a photographer who has made a key contribution to European contemporary photography over the past year.
Works by the four finalists can be viewed from 9 February to 9 April in the Photographers’ Gallery in London. The exhibition will then be presented in Berlin’s Altem Postfuhramt (Old Post Office) from 9 May until 8 July, and then at Neue Börse in Frankfurt/Main over September and October.
The four finalists:
Philippe Chancel (France) was nominated for his DPRK exhibition, which includes images taken by the photographic journalist in North Korea in 2005. Chancel’s lively color photographs provide a link between art, documentation and journalism.
Anders Petersens (Sweden): The pictures from his "About Gap" and "St Etienne" series show images from two cities in southern France, taken in 2005. Petersens’ work focuses mainly on people living at the edge of society, and his style is characterized by a rugged charm and poetic melancholy.
Fiona Tan (Indonesia) is presenting her "Mirror Maker" exhibition. Tan combines elements of photography and film and always focuses on human beings and their cultural origins.
The Atlas Group, a project by Walid Raad (Lebanon), was nominated for the exhibition entitled "The Atlas Group Project". The project, created between 1989 and 2004, documents contemporary Lebanese history using photographic and video material. Observers are given an impressive insight into the development of the country, and, in particular, the trauma caused by the Lebanese Civil War.
Deutsche Börse Art Sponsoring
Deutsche Börse Group’s commitment to photographic art forms a key part of its sponsoring activities. The Group holds regular temporary exhibitions, primarily by younger photographic artists, at Neue Börse in Frankfurt-Hausen, and also sponsors exhibition projects in international museums and institutions. Deutsche Börse has been collecting contemporary photography since 2000. The company’s Art Collection currently comprises around 600 predominantly large-format works by 60 international artists. The artwork is exhibited in the Group’s main locations in Frankfurt, London and Luxembourg. The collection does not focus on any particular theme, and the artwork includes landscapes, architecture and cityscapes, as well as interiors and portraits.
