Tag: The Photographers’ Gallery

Mark Neville reflects on his practice and the importance of giving back

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Neville’s Deutsche Börse-nominated project, Parade, is a portrait of a community in which farming is central to their way of life. In his new publication, the photographer calls for changes to land policy, and here, he reflects on his motives, and the importance of giving back

Anton Kusters: The Blue Skies Project

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Nominated for this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, Kusters reframes memory in a work that maps the atrocities of the Holocaust

Anders Petersen on Soho, Cafe Lehmitz, and intention

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“It has to hit you in the stomach — my interest is in the heart, not the brain,” says Anders Petersen, the Swedish photographer known for his intimate engagement with the underbelly of society

Photo London and beyond

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On the event of Photo London, BJP-online presents a round-up of exhibitions taking place in London this weekend

The 2019 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize goes on show

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Now in its 22nd year, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is awarded each year to image-makers who’ve made the biggest contribution to the medium in the previous 12 months in Europe. This year the shortlisted artists are: Laia Abril, for her publication On Abortion; Susan Meiselas, for the retrospective exhibition Mediations; Arwed Messmer, for his exhibition RAF – No Evidence / Kein Beweis; and Mark Ruwedel, for the exhibition Artist and Society: Mark Ruwedel. The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced at The Photographers’ Gallery on 16 May 2019.

Maria Sturm wins the 2018 PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant

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“It’s a bit hard to find words for this – You don’t look Native to me won the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant,” says Maria Sturm. “I feel exponentially happy and glad to be sharing the list with other women photographers whose work I admire.”

Sturm has won the prize in a strong year for the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant, with the 31 shortlisted photographers including Magnum Photos’ Diana Markosian, Sputnik Photos’ Karolina Gembara, and Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize-winner Alice Mann. But her long-term project You don’t look Native to me, which shows young Native Americans in Pembroke, North Carolina impressed the judges with its sensitive approach to its subjects.

31 women to watch out for

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Now in its second year, the PHmuseum Women Photographer Grant has a simple premise – to recognise and award world-class photographers, who also happen to be women. Judged this year by a prestigious panel including Magnum photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti and The Photographers’ Gallery senior curator Karen McQuaid, the Grant has two main sections – The Women Photographer Grant and the New Generation Prize for those under 30 years of age. BJP takes a look at those who have made the shortlist.