The Photographers’ Gallery in London has opened an exhibition of the four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015: Nikolai Bakharev, Zanele Muholi, Viviane Sassen, and Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse.Nikolai Bakharev has been nominated for his exhibition at the 55th Biennale of Art in Venice, Zanele Muholi for her publication “Faces and Phases 2006 – 2014,” Viviane Sassen for her exhibition “Umbra” at Nederlands Fotomuseum, and Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse Nominated for their publication “Ponte City.”The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is an annual prize established by The Photographers’ Gallery in 1996. Since 2005 Deutsche Börse has sponsored the £30,000 prize which showcases new talents and highlights the best of international photography practice.The aim of the highly prestigious prize is to reward a contemporary photographer of any nationality who has made the most significant contribution (exhibition or publication) to the medium of photography in Europe in the previous year.Candidates are nominated by the Academy, a group of more than one hundred international experts of photographic art, each of whom nominates one contemporary photographer of any nationality. An international jury then selects four finalists.The members of the 2015 jury are: Chris Boot, Executive Director, Aperture Foundation; Rineke Dijkstra, artist; Peter Gorschlüter, Deputy Director, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst and Anne Marie Beckmann, Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Börse. Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, is the non-voting Chair.Works by the shortlisted photographers will be exhibited at The Photographers’ Gallery from 17 April until 7 June 2015 and subsequently presented at the Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum for Modern Art) in Frankfurt from 20 June until 20 September.
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