Photography Prize 2021
Photography Prize 2021
From
November 26, 2021
Till
December 12, 2021
Location
Kühlhaus Berlin Luckenwalder Straße 3, 10963 Berlin
Description
About the 2021 edition
Now in its 4th year, the BBA Photography Prize honours talented photographers. Together with an international jury, Berlin-based BBA Gallery has selected 24 photographers for the shortlist and 37 nominees for the One Shot Award, whose works can was seen in a joint exhibition in the Kühlhaus Berlin. The first prize winner Jens Juul will receive his solo exhibition in BBA Gallery in March 2023 during EMOP, the European Month of Photography.
Exhibition at the Aletto hotel
We were invited by Aletto hotel to exhibit a curated selection of the Photography Prize shortlist photographers. A paired back minimal exhibition that complimented the high quality stylish interior paired with the aesthetics of the photographic selects.
2021
2021 Winners
Jens Juul
1st Prize was awarded to Jens Juul from Denmark for his black and white photo series ’Six degrees of Copenhagen’, which is located somewhere between documentation and artistic portraits and impresses due to its simultaneous harshness and vulnerability.
Camille Gharbi
Joint 2nd Prize was awarded to Camille Gharbi from France for her conceptual work ‘Proofs of love’ that addresses the topic of femicide and violence against women in their partnerships.
Dirk Hardy
Joint 2nd Prize was awarded to Dirk Hardy from the Netherlands, who creates detailed whimsical, life-size, fictional portraits in the form of contemporary tableaux vivants under the title ‘Vivarium'.
Kristina Varaksina
3rd Prize was awarded to Kristina Varaksina from the UK for her carefully designed portraits of women, which illuminate the female psyche and pose questions of beauty, self-perception and self-discovery.
Richard Tuschman
The People's Choice Award was awarded to Richard Tuschman from the US for a meticulously staged series with which he portrays memories of his childhood and also honours his mother and his deceased wife.
Calogero Cammalleri
The One Shot Award was awarded to Calogero Cammalleri from Italy, for a timeless black & white portrait.
Meet the exhibiting photographers
Jury spotlight
50 made the longlist
