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Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse have been
awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015, and along with it, a £30,000
(roughly $45,785 US) prize. The award was announced at The Photographer’s
Gallery in London on May 28.
Subotzky, a South African and a member of Magnum
Photos, and Waterhouse, a Briton, were nominated for their publication Ponte
City (Steidl, 2014), which documents life in a 54-floor apartment block in Johannesburg,
built in 1976 for the white bourgeoisie under South Africa’s apartheid regime.
During the country’s transformation in the 80s and 90s, it became a refuge for
immigrants from Zimbabwe and other African nations, before decaying into a
poignant metaphor of South Africa’s history.
The pair began their project in 2007, after a project
to revitalize the building failed, in part due to the global financial crisis.
Working with the remaining residents, they documented the stories of the
building’s residents, turning the photos into the eponymous book, plus an
additional sequence of 17 booklets containing essays and personal stories.
The other artists on the shortlist for the 2015 prize
were Nikolai Bakharev, Zanele Muholi and Viviane Sassen.
The annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize was first
established by The Photographer’s Gallery in London in 1996, supporting
reportage, portraiture, fine art and multimedia work. This year’s jury included
Chris Boot, executive director of the Aperture Foundation; photographer Rineke
Dijkstra; Anne Marie Beckmann, curator of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse;
and Peter Gorschlüter, deputy director of MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst.
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