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| Christina de Middel, The Afronauts, 2012 |
Work by the artists shortlisted for the 2013 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is on display at The Photographers' Gallery until 30 June 2013. The artists are: Broomberg & Chanarin, Mishka Henner, Chistina de Middel and Chris Killip. Together they represent as diverse an approach to photography as you could wish for:
Broomberg & Chanarin juxtapose contemporary news images with Bertolt Brecht's newspaper clippings of Second World War photographs accompanied by his brief poems; Mishka Henner appropriates images of sex workers around the world caught on Google Street View; Christina de Middel constructs a semi-fictional documentary account of the Zambian space programme; Chris Killip's social documentary pictures record working-class life in the north-east of England in the 1970s and 80s.
Read reviews by Adrian Searle,and Richard Dorment; watch a video in which Sean O'Hagan introduces the artists. Download a copy of Broomberg & Chanarin's book War Primer 2.
See below for entries on the 2012 and 2011 prizes.
Adam Broomberg (b. 1970, South Africa) and
Oliver Chanarin (b. 1971, UK) are nominated for their publication
War Primer 2 (MACK, 2012).
War Primer 2 is a limited edition book that physically inhabits the pages of Bertold Brecht’s remarkable 1955 publication
War Primer.
Brecht’s photo-essay comprises 85 images, photographic fragments or
collected newspaper clippings, that were placed next to a four-line
poem, called ‘photo-epigrams’. Broomberg and Chanarin layered Google
search results for the poems over Brecht’s originals.
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Broomberg & Chanarin, War Primer 2, 2012
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| Broomberg & Chanarin, War Primer 2, 2012 |
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| Broomberg & Chanarin, War Primer 2, 2012 |
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| Broomberg & Chanarin, War Primer 2, 2012 |
Mishka Henner (b. 1976, UK) is nominated for his exhibition
No Man’s Land at Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (20 September – 28 October 2012).
No Man's Land represents isolated women occupying the
margins of southern European environments. Shot entirely with Google
Street View, Henner's method of online intelligence-gathering results in
an unsettling reflection on surveillance, voyeurism and the
contemporary landscape.
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Mishka Henner, No Man's Land, 2011
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| Mishka Henner, No Man's Land, 2011 |
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| Mishka Henner, No Man's Land, 2011 |
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| Mishka Henner, No Man's Land, 2011 |
Cristina De Middel (b.1975, Spain) is nominated for her publication
The Afronauts (self-published, 2011).
In her first book,
The Afronauts, De Middel engages with
myths and truths, reality and fiction. In 1964, after gaining
independence, Zambia started a space programme in order to send the
first African astronaut to the moon.
De Middel sequences her beautiful colour photography with manipulated
documents, drawings and reproductions of letters, presenting them as
almost folkloric inlays alongside fashion illustrations and technical
sketches.
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| Christina de Middel, The Afronauts, 2012 |
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| Christina de Middel, The Afronauts, 2012 |
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| Christina de Middel, The Afronauts, 2012 |
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| Christina de Middel, The Afronauts, 2012 |
Chris Killip (b. 1946, UK) is nominated for his exhibition
What Happened – Great Britain 1970 –1990 at LE BAL, Paris (12 May – 19 August 2012).
British born Killip has been taking photographs for nearly five decades.
What Happened – Great Britain
comprises black and white images of working people in the north of
England, taken by Killip in the 1970s and 1980s. After spending months
immersed in several communities, Killip documented the disintegration of
the industrial past with a poetic and highly personal point of view.
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| Chris Killip, Youth on Wall, Jarrow, Tyneside, 1976 |
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| Chris Killip, Boo and his rabbit, Lynemouth, 1983 |
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| Chris Killip, Bever's First Day Out, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, 1982 |
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Chris Killip, Helen and her hoola-hoop, Lynemouth, 1984
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