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The Photographers’ Gallery awarded Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse with the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 in London on Thursday night at a special ceremony in the Gallery. The announcement was made by the artist duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, who won the award in 2013. The annual award comes with a prize of 30,000 GBP and recognizes photographers who have made an important contribution to contemporary photography in Europe in the previous twelve months. Mikhael Subotzky (b. 1981, South Africa) and Patrick Waterhouse (b. 1981, UK) won for their publication Ponte City.
The artists were chosen by jury members Chris Boot, Executive Director, Aperture Foundation; Rineke Dijkstra, Artist; Peter Gorschlüter, Deputy Director, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, and Anne Marie Beckmann, Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Börse.
The other shortlisted artists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015, each awarded 3,000 GBP, are: Nikolai Bakharev, Zanele Muholi and Viviane Sassen.
Brett Rogers, chair of the Jury and Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, said on behalf of the jury: “The jury praised Subotzky and Waterhouse for introducing new ways of photographic storytelling and presentation in book form. They have drawn together a rich and diverse array of archival and documentary approaches, to reveal, layer by layer, the complex stories concealed within one of Johannesburg’s most iconic buildings, Ponte City. This long-term, creatively ambitious project, serves as a compelling metaphor for South African society as it transitioned from Apartheid to post-Apartheid era and importantly explores the wider issues relating to the global migration of peoples today.”
Andreas Preuss, Deputy CEO of Deutsche Börse, said: “The cooperation between The Photographers’ Gallery and Deutsche Börse since 2005 has proven very successful – the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is a prestigious award, well-established and widely recognised. I’m happy to announce that Deutsche Börse will continue to support this award also for the next three years.”
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 is organised by The Photographers’ Gallery and is on display there until 7 June followed by presentations at the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art) in Frankfurt during the RAY 2015 Photo Festival (20 June – 20 September 2015).
