Exhibition shortlists artists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Don’t miss the chance to see some of Europe’s best photography, brought together in one gallery.
Each year, an artist is chosen as the winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, which picks out the best photography from across Europe from the previous year.
This year the four shortlisted artists are Bieke Depoorter, Samuel Fosso, Arthur Jafa and Frida Orupabo.
All four photographers have their work on show at the Photographers Gallery in Soho.
These artists have been selected for their ability to blur the relationship between photographer and subject.
Some explore gender and sexuality or the ethics of photography while others focus on violence, injustice and the black experience.
Bieke Depoorter, a Belgian photographer, has been shortlisted for her exhibition A Chance Encounter in Berlin.
The exhibition of installations, projections, film and photography explores the life and disappearance of a man she met in Portland, Oregon in 2015.
Samuel Fosson was chosen for his exhibition Samuel Fosso at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
Born in Kumba, Cameroon, and raised in Nigeria, Mr Fosso fled the Biafran War as a young boy.
In 1975, at the age of 13, he opened his Studio Photo Nationale and immediately began a series of self-portraits that show a powerful way of existing in the world.
Arthur Jafa, an American artist and film-maker, has been nominated for his Live Evil exhibition hosted in Arles, France.
It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of his work to date in which he draws upon a substantial archive of film and still images.
Frida Orupabo has been shortlisted for her exhibition which was hosted in Switzerland called I have seen a million pictures of my face and still I have no idea, which is grounded in her own experience of belonging.
The exhibition will be on show until June 11.
Picture: Arthur Jafa, Monster, 1988. Picture: Arthur Jafa and Gladstone Gallery Photography by Andrea Rossetti
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