Diana Lawson, a photographer whose work is currently the subject of a US travel survey, has won the Deutsche Boerse Photography Award.
Although it only comes in at £30,000 (about $36,600), the award is considered among the most important prizes dedicated to photography. It has previously been won by artists such as Trevor Baglin, Walid Raad, Juergen Teller, Cao Fay and Andreas Gursky.
Lawson is known for her portraits of black men and women who are often photographed in home environments. Although these photos may seem documentary, they tend to involve sitters who did not know each other before Lawson took their photo. Periodically, Lawson’s work also included ready-made photographs that she placed alongside photographs she had taken of herself. She has also branched out into the film industry.
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In recent years, Lawson’s work has received more attention in the United States, winning the Guggenheim Museum’s $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize in 2020, becoming the first female photographer to receive the award, and has a display of her work now at MoMA PS1 in New York, which she co-curated with Boston Institute of Contemporary Art.
Lawson won the Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Award for her 2020 show at Kunsthalle Basel, which focused on states of chaos and order. Pictures of him later appeared in the Bienal de São Paulo and in its exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 2021, held after he won the Hugo Boss Prize.
Brett Rogers, director of the Photographers Gallery London and chair of this year’s award jury, said in a statement: “Her work, which paraphrases and restores the Black experience, harnesses the traditional and the experimental and opens a very unique connection between the everyday and the mystical. Her subject matter lies somewhere in between ‘the here and now’.” and the past, person and people, in stages and natural, in a way that is not didactic or cause-driven, but really radical.”
Photographers Anastasia Samoilova, Jill Pires and Joe Raktliffe were also shortlisted for this year’s award.
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