Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 broadcasts nominees.

The Photographers’ Gallery in London has introduced the 4 artists shortlisted for the 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize: Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, Amak Mahmoodian, and Rene Matić. The prestigious annual award acknowledges artists whose work has made a major impression on pictures over the previous 12 months.

Now in its third decade, the prize is understood for celebrating artists whose work challenges the boundaries of photographic observe. Previous winners have included Juergen Teller, Andreas Gursky, and Deana Lawson. The 2026 shortlist spans long-term documentary, conceptual experimentation, multimedia set up, and collaborative initiatives.

Atwood, an American artist, is acknowledged for Too Much Time / Trop de Peines, a newly revised bilingual version of her landmark e-book initially printed in 2000. Based on a decade spent documenting the lives of incarcerated girls throughout 9 international locations, the work stays well timed as world charges of feminine incarceration proceed to rise.

Polish artist Gęsicka is shortlisted for Encyclopaedia, printed in 2024 by BLOW UP PRESS and Jednostka Gallery. The e-book compiles actual faux entries—deliberate fabrications as soon as used primarily by editors of reference works similar to dictionaries to lure plagiarists—and reimagines them utilizing manipulated inventory pictures and AI-generated imagery, elevating questions on misinformation and visible reality.

Mahmoodian’s “One Hundred and Twenty Minutes,” proven on the 2024 Bristol Photo Festival, displays on exile by way of dreamscapes shared by migrants throughout 14 international locations. Using pictures, poetry, and video, the exhibition by the Iranian artist thought-about how desires maintain connections to residence within the face of displacement.

British artist Matić, the youngest identify on the checklist, is nominated for his or her exhibition “AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH,” at CCA Berlin, for which they had been additionally shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025. Through diaristic pictures, sound, and installations, Matić explores id, class, and household in Britain at present. Their work facilities intimacy and vulnerability as types of resistance in a fractured social panorama.

An exhibition of the shortlisted initiatives might be on view at The Photographers’ Gallery from March sixth to June seventh, 2026, and on the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Frankfurt from September third, 2026, to January seventeenth, 2027. The winner might be introduced on May 14th, 2026, and obtain £30,000 ($40,244). Each shortlisted artist will obtain £5,000 ($6,707).