The four shortlisted photographers for the annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is now announced. They are: Philippe Chancel, Anders Petersen, Fiona Tan and The Atlas Group.
The work represented ranges from photojournalism to intimate social photography and from the exploration of the complexity of culture and place to the documentation of contemporary history.
The Photography Prize is presented by The Photographers’ Gallery and the exhibition will open in London from
9 February - 9 April 2007. The £30,000 award will be announced and presented to the winner at the Gallery on
21 March 2007.
Anders Petersen is the headline speaker for Vision, the British Journal of Photography's annual and essential event for aspiring photographers. Click here for further information.
Click here for the press release.
Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon) nominated for the
exhibition The Atlas Group Project at Hamburger
Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin, Germany,
22 September 2006 - 7 January 2007.
The Atlas Group, a project undertaken by Walid Raad between 1989 and 2004, researched and documented the contemporary history of Lebanon. However, the authenticity of the photographic and video documents in this archive is continuously queried, leaving the viewer uncertain how history — in particular one marked by the trauma of civil war — can be told and visually represented. The exhibition includes a selection from We decided to let them say, “we are convinced,” twice,a series of large-scale photographs taken by Walid Raad in the summer of 1982 of the Israeli Army’s invasion and siege of Beirut. Walid Raad/The Atlas Group can be seen in No 5.
Alan Gilbert, an independent scholar and poet based
in New York City, has contributed a thought-provoking
essay on Raad’s work to the exhibition catalogue.
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