Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012
Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker, Christopher Williams
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, worth £30,000, is awarded annually at The Photographers’ Gallery in London to a living photographer of any nationality who has made an outstanding contribution, by an exhibition or a publication, to photography in Europe in the past year. This year’s finalists, Pieter Hugo (b. 1976, South Africa), Rinko Kawauchi (b. 1972, Japan), John Stezaker (b. 1949, UK) and Christopher Williams (b. 1956, USA) represent the broad artistic spectrum of contemporary photography. In his publication Permanent Error, Pieter Hugo documents the unsettling impact of electronic waste in Ghana. In Illuminance, Rinko Kawauchi brings her highly personal sensitivity to bear on issues of life, death and day-to-day routine. The collages that John Stezaker exhibited in London rigorously explore the subversive force of the found image. Finally, in his exhibition Kapitalistischer Realismus (Capitalist Realism), Christopher Williams uses the language of commercial photography to question the aesthetic conventions that influence our perception of reality.
C/O Berlin . International Forum for Visual Dialogues
10.11. – 13.01.2013
Vernissage 9.11.2012 7:00 pm
Location
C/O BerlinOranienburger Straße 35/36
Postfuhramt
10117 Berlin
T 030 . 28 44 41 60
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Mon-Sun 11 am-8 pm
Public transport
U6 Oranienburger Tor, S1, S2, S25, Tram M1, M6 Oranienburger Straße
Admission price
10 € / reduced 5 €
Organizer
C/O Berlin . International Forum for Visual DialoguesAuguststraße 5A
10117 Berlin
T 030 . 28 44 41 60
Sponsors
Deutsche Börse GroupPartners
The Photographers' Gallery, LondonCatalog
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012 (with essays by Parveen Adams, David Campany, Jeremy Millar, Sean O'Toole), London: The Photographers’ Gallery, 2012