Last weekend I went to the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize exhibition at the Photographers Gallery in London. This prize is rewarded to a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution, in exhibition or public format, to the medium of photography over the past year. Shortlisted this year are - Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber and Donovan Wylie. I was already a fan of Donovan Wylie for his Losing Ground series, but The Maze which was at the exhibition looked like is was by a different photographer and I wasn't very impressed by it.
Ristelhueber's work was interesting. For the last 25 years she has been investigating the impact of human conflict on architecture and landscapes. I do wonder why she chose to photograph the effects on the landscape though, rather than the effects conflict has on people. 
Ristelhueber's work was interesting. For the last 25 years she has been investigating the impact of human conflict on architecture and landscapes. I do wonder why she chose to photograph the effects on the landscape though, rather than the effects conflict has on people. I've never heard of Zoe Leonard before but I was intrigued by her 'anti-digital' urban landscapes. She says "I am interested in making a record of an urban landscape as a way of looking at who we are as people, who we are as a culture, understanding the city as a social space...as an economic space." 
I don't have much to say about Anna Fox, except that I found Cockroach Diary & Other Stories extremely pretentious and boring.
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