Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2011

This prize has been set up in 1996 by The Photographer's Gallery in London and its aim was and is to promote the best contemporary photographers, making in this way the contemporary story of photography. 
This is a great way to get people who are interested in photography to know what's going on in the world and especially in Europe. 
The final winner is the one who left the most significant path in photography in Europe during the last year. 
The location was a warehouse space inside the University of Westminster, a huge place where the viewer had all the space to look at the images.
It was clear that the most interesting work, in general therms of photography, was Jim Goldberg's mix media reportage -indeed he won the prize-
The exhibited work -Open See- was astonishing: raw, emotional, true. All qualities that are hitting violently the observer; from the small polaroids to the big fragmented photo of desolation.
Even if I found Thomas Demand brilliant as usual, I felt that Jim Goldberg's work was the one to give a prize to.
The educational value of this work is high and the depth of his view is interesting as it is the use of different medias. Photo-reportage here uses the help of writings to be more clear than ever, more true and without two-ways. You can see people stories in their eyes and in their words.
Refugee tell their story and their thoughts and show their faces in a reportage that brings contemporary photography from the transcendency of contemporary art's status to the hardness of human experience.

http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pid=4&show=20


http://londonist.com/2011/04/jim-goldberg-wins-deutsche-borse-photography-prize-2011.php


http://www.jimgoldberg.com/


http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R1493TK&nm=Jim%20Goldberg


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