Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 Shortlist Announced with Four Artists
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for 2026 has shortlisted four photographers: Amak Mahmoodian, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Rene Matić, and Weronika Gęsicka. The winner, to be revealed on 14 May 2026, will receive £30,000, while each finalist is awarded £5,000. Their works delve into topics such as exile, memory, gender disparity, and the nature of photographic reality. Matić's AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH was exhibited at CCA Berlin from November 2024 to February 2025. Mahmoodian's One Hundred and Twenty Minutes features in the 2024 Bristol Photo Festival. Atwood's Too Much Time focuses on women in prison during the 1990s, and Gęsicka's Encyclopaedia challenges truth through altered images. An exhibition is scheduled at The Photographers' Gallery from 6 March to 7 June 2026, followed by Deutsche Börse from 3 September 2026 to 17 January 2027.
Key facts
- The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 shortlist includes Amak Mahmoodian, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Rene Matić, and Weronika Gęsicka.
- The winner will be announced on 14 May 2026 and receive £30,000; shortlisted artists get £5,000 each.
- An exhibition of shortlisted works opens at The Photographers' Gallery, London, on 6 March 2026.
- The exhibition will travel to the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Eschborn/Frankfurt from 3 September 2026.
- Rene Matić's exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH was at CCA Berlin from November 2024 to February 2025.
- Amak Mahmoodian's project One Hundred and Twenty Minutes was part of the Bristol Photo Festival in 2024.
- Jane Evelyn Atwood's publication Too Much Time documents female incarceration across forty prisons in nine countries.
- Weronika Gęsicka's Encyclopaedia uses AI-generated imagery to explore fabricated entries in historical publications.
Entities
Artists
- Amak Mahmoodian
- Jane Evelyn Atwood
- Rene Matić
- Weronika Gęsicka
- Arthur Jafa
- Deana Lawson
- Lorna Simpson
- Richard Mosse
- Susan Meiselas
- Eleanor Sutherland
- Lindokuhle Sobekwa
- Lebohang Kganye
- Samuel Fosso
- Juergen Teller
- Adam Broomberg
- Oliver Chanarin
Institutions
- Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation
- The Photographers' Gallery
- Autograph ABP
- Foto Colectania Foundation
- Magnum Photos
- CCA Berlin
- Bristol Photo Festival
- Arcadia Missa
- Jednostka Gallery
- Aesthetica Magazine
- Le Bec En L’Air
- BLOW UP PRESS
- MACK
Locations
- London
- United Kingdom
- Eschborn
- Frankfurt
- Germany
- Berlin
- Iran
- Bristol
- Marseille
- France
- Dijon
- New York
- Poland
- Shiraz
- UK
- South Africa