Work by the four international artists: Bieke Depoorter, Samuel Fosso, Arthur Jafa and Frida Orupabo will go on display for the 2023 edition of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, from 3 March until 11 June 2023.
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize exhibition will feature a selection of work from the nominated projects of the four 2023 shortlisted artists.
The complex ethical relationship and boundaries which have rarely been explored between the photographer and their subject provide the focus for Bieke Depoorter’s (for her exhibition A Chance Encounter at C/O Berlin (30 April –7 September 2022) intense scrutiny of her relationship with her subjects.
Drawing upon the West African tradition of studio portraiture, Samuel Fosso (for his exhibition Samuel Fosso at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 10 November 2021 – 13 March 2022) repurposes this genre through self portraiture by creating startling new identities, based on social archetypes as well as real historical figures.
Drawing from a rich collection of images, film footage and music, Arthur Jafa (for his exhibition Live Evil at Luma, Arles, 14 April – 13 November 2022) uncompromisingly articulates Black experience, providing us with an exercise in visual literacy, confronting us with a new Black aesthetic which avoids fixed hierarchies and linear storytelling.
Giving sculptural form to photo collage, Frida Orupabo (for her exhibition I have seen a million pictures of my face and still I have no idea, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 26 February – 29 May 2022) reimagines the historical Black female body through her extraordinary multilayered collages and Instagram posts using material circulated online.
Originally established in 1996 and organised in partnership with the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Frankfurt/Main since 2016, this long-standing and influential annual Prize identifies and rewards artists and their projects considered to have made the most significant contribution to photography over the previous 12 months.
The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced at a special evening award ceremony on 11 May 2023, with the other finalists each receiving £5,000.
The exhibition will tour to the Muzeum Fotografii w Krakowie, Krakow, Poland (30 June to 17 September 2023).
