Thomas Ruff Awarded The International Photography Lishui Award

The International Photography Lishui Award, established by the Lishui Photography Museum, is a global tutorial prize. The inaugural honoree in 2023 was the internationally famend American photographer Stephen Shore, who took occasions through the 2023 Lishui Photography Festival.

A jury of 9 senior consultants from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Japan performed a rigorous choice and formally introduced photographer Thomas Ruff because the 2025 laureate.

The jury evaluated candidates based mostly on a spread of standards, together with creative achievement, tutorial affect, cultural background, and nationwide identification, unanimously recognizing Thomas Ruff’s distinctive contributions to modern pictures.

Over a profession spanning greater than forty years, Ruff has persistently performed philosophical inquiries and systematic evaluation of the medium of pictures. He has consistently challenged the boundaries of pictures, delving deeply into the image-making mechanisms, technical properties, and methods of seeing photographs. Through his sustained experimental follow, he has supplied invaluable methodological insights to modern picture follow worldwide, and his achievements and worldwide affect totally benefit this honor.

During the Lishui Photography Festival, programming will embrace a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s private works, a particular lecture with the artist, and thematic seminars, selling in-depth dialogue and alternate throughout the worldwide pictures neighborhood.

Learn extra on the Lishui Photography Museum.