Deana Lawson Wins 2022 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize – RisePEI

Deana Lawson, a photographer whose work is at present the topic of a touring survey within the U.S., has gained the Deutsche Börse Pictures Basis Prize.

Although it solely comes with £30,000 (about $36,600), the award is taken into account to be among the many most essential ones dedicated to images. It has beforehand been gained by artists equivalent to Trevor Paglen, Walid Raad, Juergen Teller, Cao Fei, and Andreas Gursky.

Lawson is greatest identified for her portraits of Black women and men who are sometimes posed in home settings. Whereas these photographs might look like documentary ones, they have a tendency to contain sitters who didn’t know one another earlier than Lawson took their image. Periodically, Lawson’s work has additionally concerned ready-made imagery that she locations alongside the images she herself has shot. She has additionally branched out into filmmaking as properly.

In recent times, Lawson’s work has obtained better consideration within the U.S. She gained the Guggenheim Museum’s $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize in 2020, turning into the primary photographer to take the award, and she or he has a present of her work now on view at MoMA PS1 in New York, which it co-organized with the Institute of Up to date Artwork Boston.

Lawson gained the Deutsche Börse Pictures Basis Prize for her 2020 present on the Kunsthalle Basel, which targeted on states of chaos and order. Photos from it later appeared on the Bienal de São Paulo and in her Guggenheim Museum present in 2021, held after profitable the Hugo Boss Prize.

Brett Rogers, the director of London’s Photographers’ Gallery and chair of the prize’s jury this 12 months, stated in a press release, “Her work, which reframes and reclaims the Black expertise, harnesses the standard and the experimental and opens up a really distinctive connection between the on a regular basis and the paranormal. Her material sits someplace between the ‘right here and now’ and the previous, an individual and a folks, the staged and the naturalistic, in a fashion which isn’t didactic or situation pushed, however genuinely radical.”

Photographers Anastasia Samoylova, Gilles Peress, and Jo Ractliffe had been additionally shortlisted for this 12 months’s award.