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Sophie Ristelhueber Wins 2010 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

Sophie Ristelhueber (b.1949, France) has been awarded the 2010 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. At a special ceremony on Wednesday 17 March 2010, the film director Terry Gilliam presented the £30,000 award. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 is organised by The Photographers’ Gallery and is on show until 18 April 2010.

The Prize is awarded to a photographer of any nationality for their significant contribution to the medium of photography through either an exhibition or publication, in Europe, between 1 October 2008 and 30 September 2009. Sophie Ristelhueber won for her retrospective Sophie Ristelhueber at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (20 January – 22 March 2009).


Sophie Ristelhueber, “Eleven Blowups #10”, 2006. ©Sophie Ristelhueber/adagp

For over 25 years, using photography and, more recently, moving image, Ristelhueber has investigated the impact of human conflict upon architecture and landscape in places such as Bosnia, France, Iraq, Lebanon and Kuwait. Often playing with an ambiguity of scale in her installations, Ristelhueber’s work confounds traditional photographic genres and unsentimentally draws attention to the scars and traces we leave behind, addressing the essence of our human existence.

Sophie Ristelhueber was chosen by the Jury members, Oliva Maria Rubio (Director of Exhibitions, La Fàbrica, Spain); Gilane Tawadros (Chief Executive, Design and Artists Copyright Society, curator and writer, UK); James Welling (artist, USA); and Anne-Marie Beckmann (Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany).

The other shortlisted artists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010, each awarded £3,000, are: Anna Fox (b.1961, UK), Zoe Leonard (b.1961, USA) and Donovan Wylie (b.1971, UK). The selection this year again highlights the diversity of contemporary photography, incorporating both conceptual practice as well as more traditional photographic approaches. For further information on each of the photographers’ work on display please visit the gallery website: www.photonet.org.uk