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2009-03-30
Paul Graham has been awarded the 2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. At a special ceremony on Wednesday 25 March 2009, Jefferson Hack, co-founder of Dazed & Confused, presented the £30,000 award.
The Prize is awarded to an international photographer for their significant contribution to the medium of photography through either an exhibition or publication, in Europe between1 October 2007 and 30 September 2008. Paul Graham won for his publication a shimmer of possibility (steidlMACK, October 2007).
A shimmer of possibility comprises twelve individual volumes of photographic short stories of life in contemporary America. Graham infuses lyricism into the most mundane of everyday human activities – fetching mail or lighting a cigarette – and creates quiet photographic moments, ‘filmic haikus’, which suggest and hint at a narrative but ultimately remain open-ended. At once poetic and political, his photographs manage to draw out something truly profound from the almost-nothingness of everyday life.
An exclusive portfolio of Paul Grahams work can be seen in the forthcoming Spring/Summer issue of Exit publishing April 2009
This exhibition runs until the 12th of April, 2009
The Photographers Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
www.photonet.org.uk
