History[edit]

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.[1]


Deutsche Börse has sponsored the competition since 2005, with a £30,000 prize.[2] At that point it was renamed the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. It was renamed again to the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2016, "to reflect its new position within the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, a specifically established non-profit organisation focused on the collecting, exhibiting and promoting of contemporary photography."[3]

1997 winner , shortlisted Uta Barth, Mat Collishaw, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Catherine Yass

Richard Billingham

1998 winner , shortlisted Thomas Demand, Paul Graham, Katia Liebmann, Hiroshi Sugimoto

Andreas Gursky

1999 winner , shortlisted Augusto Alves da Silva, Alex Hartley, Yinka Shonibare, Paul M. Smith[4]

Rineke Dijkstra

2000 winner , shortlisted James Casebere, Jitka Hanzlová, Tim Macmillan, Tracey Moffatt

Anna Gaskell

2001 winner , shortlisted Roni Horn, Hellen van Meene, Jem Southam, Hannah Starkey

Boris Mikhailov

2002 winner , shortlisted Roger Ballen, Elina Brotherus, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Thomas Ruff[5]

Shirana Shahbazi

2003 winner , shortlisted Jitka Hanzlová, Bertien van Manen, Simon Norfolk

Juergen Teller

2004 winner , shortlisted Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt

Joel Sternfeld

Winners of the Citigroup Photography Prize (1997–2004):[1]


Winners and shortlisted artists of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2005–present):

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, , Yve Lomax and Jason Evans.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

Official website

at the Photographers' Gallery

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013

Archived 28 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine

A History of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize