The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize is a prize awarded annually by the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation to a photographer who has made the most significant contribution to the photographic medium in Europe during the past year.
The prize was set up in 1996 by The Photographers' Gallery, London, with the intention of promoting the finest contemporary photography. Between 1997 and 2004, the prize was known as the Citigroup Photography Prize.
Deutsche Börse has sponsored the competition since 2005, with a £30,000 prize. It has been described as "the biggest of its kind in photography in Europe" and "the most prestigious".
Winners and shortlisted artists
Winners of the Citigroup Photography Prize (1997–2004):
1997 winner Richard Billingham, also shortlisted Uta Barth, Mat Collishaw, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Catherine Yass
1998 winner Andreas Gursky, also shortlisted Thomas Demand, Paul Graham, Katia Liebmann, Hiroshi Sugimoto
1999 winner Rineke Dijkstra, also shortlisted Augusto Alves da Silva, Alex Hartley, Yinka Shonibare, Paul M. Smith
2000 winner Anna Gaskell, also shortlisted James Casebere, Jitka Hanzlová, Tim Macmillan, Tracey Moffatt
2001 winner Boris Mikhailov, also shortlisted Roni Horn, Hellen van Meene, Jem Southam, Hannah Starkey
2002 winner Shirana Shahbazi, also shortlisted Roger Ballen, Elina Brotherus, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Thomas Ruff
2003 winner Juergen Teller, also shortlisted Jitka Hanzlová, Bertien van Manen, Simon Norfolk
2004 winner Joel Sternfeld, also shortlisted Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt
Winners and shortlisted artists of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2005–present):
2005 winner Luc Delahaye for his exhibition Luc Delahaye–Photographs at National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK. Also shortlisted were JH Engström, for the publication Trying to Dance (Journal, 2004); Jörg Sasse for his exhibition at Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt; and Stephen Shore, for the publication Uncommon Places: The Complete Works (Thames & Hudson, 2004).
2006 winner Robert Adams for his exhibition Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration at Haus der Kunst, Munich. Also shortlisted were Yto Barrada for his exhibition A Life Full of Holes – the Strait Project at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Phil Collins for his exhibition yeah…..you, baby you at Milton Keynes Gallery, UK; and Alec Soth for his exhibition Sleeping by the Mississippi at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.
2007 winner Walid Raad for his exhibition The Atlas Group Project at Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Also shortlisted were Philippe Chancel for his exhibition DPRK at Les Rencontres d'Arles, France; Anders Petersen for his exhibition À propos de Gap et de Saint-Étienne at Les Rencontres d'Arles, France; and Fiona Tan for her exhibition Mirror Maker at Landesgalerie Linz, Austria.
2008 winner Esko Männikko for his exhibition Cocktails 1990–2007 at Millesgården, Stockholm. Also shortlisted were John Davies for his exhibition The British Landscape at National Media Museum, Bradford, UK; Jacob Holdt, for the publication Jacob Holdt, United States 1970–1975 (Steidl, 2007); and Fazal Sheikh, for the publication Ladli (Steidl, 2007).
2009 winner Paul Graham, for the publication A Shimmer of Possibility (steidlMACK, 2007). Also shortlisted were Emily Jacir for her exhibition Material For A Film at the 52nd Biennale of Art in Venice; Tod Papageorge for his exhibition Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and Taryn Simon for her project An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar.
2010 winner Sophie Ristelhueber for her self-titled exhibition at Jeu de Paume, Paris. Also shortlisted were Anna Fox for her exhibition Cockroach Diaries & Other Stories at Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales; Zoe Leonard for her exhibition Zoe Leonard: Photographs at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and Donovan Wylie for his exhibition MAZE 2007/8 at Belfast Exposed, UK.
2011 winner Jim Goldberg for his exhibition Open See at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Also shortlisted were Thomas Demand for his exhibition Nationalgalerie at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Roe Ethridge for his exhibition at Les Rencontres d'Arles, France; and Elad Lassry for his self-titled exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich.
2012 winner John Stezaker for his self-titled exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, London. Also shortlisted were Pieter Hugo, for the publication Permanent Error (Prestel, 2011); Rinko Kawauchi, for the publication Illuminance (Kehrer, 2011); and Christopher Williams for his exhibition Kapitalistischer Realismus at Dům umění České Budějovice, Budweis, Czech Republic.
2013 winners Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, for the publication War Primer 2 (MACK, 2012). Also shortlisted were Chris Killip for his exhibition What Happened – Great Britain 1970–1990 at Le Bal, Paris; Cristina de Middel, for her self-published photobook The Afronauts (2011); and Mishka Henner for his exhibition No Man's Land at FotoGrafia. Festival internazionale di Roma, MACRO, Rome.
2014 winner Richard Mosse for his exhibition The Enclave at the 55th Biennale of Art in Venice. Also shortlisted were Alberto García-Alix, for the publication Autorretrato/Selfportrait (La Fábrica, 2014); Jochen Lempert for his self-titled exhibition at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; and Lorna Simpson for her exhibition Lorna Simpson (Retrospective) at Jeu de Paume, Paris.
2015 winners Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, for the publication Ponte City (Steidl, 2014). Also shortlisted were Nikolai Bakharev for his exhibition at the 55th Biennale of Art in Venice; Zanele Muholi, for the publication Faces and Phases 2006–2014 (Steidl and The Walther Collection, 2014); and Viviane Sassen for her exhibition Umbra at Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam.
2016 winner Trevor Paglen for his exhibition The Octopus at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. Also shortlisted were Erik Kessels for his exhibition Unfinished Father at Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Laura El-Tantawy, for her self-published photobook In the Shadow of the Pyramids (2015); and Tobias Zielony for his exhibition The Citizen at the 56th Biennale of Art in Venice.
2017 shortlisted artists: Sophie Calle, for her publication My All (Actes Sud, 2016); Dana Lixenberg, for her publication Imperial Courts (Roma, 2015); Awoiska van der Molen for her exhibition Blanco at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam; and Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs for their exhibition Eurasia at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016. London: The Photographers' Gallery, 2016. Photographs by Laura El-Tantawy, Erik Kessels, Trevor Paglen, and Tobias Zielony. With essays on the artists by Yasmine El Rashidi, Francesco Zanot, Tom Holert, and Florian Ebner.
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017 Catalogue. London: The Photographers' Gallery, 2017. Photographs by Dana Lixenberg, Sophie Calle, Taiyo Onarato and Nico Krebs, and Awoiska van der Molen. With texts by Laurie Anderson, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Yve Lomax and Jason Evans.
