Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019
Interesting exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery featuring the four finalists in this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. The competition identifies and rewards innovation an excellence in photography. This is not only for the photographs themselves but also in exhibitions, projects or books by the photographers nominated. Two of the photographers have recorded conflicts. Arwed Messmer showed how pictures used in the investigation of the Red Army Faction in Germany now provide a different insight into the history of this period. OK I admit as I didn’t know this bit of history so the photographs didn’t mean a lot to me and the display didn’t really enlighten me. Having said that I liked the tall pictures of the bookcases in cells. Susan Meiselas was nominated for a retrospective of her work including her ongoing project on Kurdistan. Laia Abril’s work was for a book investigating abortion throughout the world. I found it a hard watch. There were m...