August Sander Prize
The August Sander Prize is a prize for portrait photography awarded by the Photography Collection of the SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne .
Characteristic
The photographer August Sander (1876–1964) gave the award his name, which was first awarded in 2018, donated by Ulla Bartenbach and the lawyer and university professor Kurt Bartenbach. The award is made in cooperation with the Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne. The prize, which is awarded every two years, aims to promote young, contemporary artistic approaches in the sense of factual, conceptual photography with a special focus on the human portrait. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros. National and international artists up to and including 40 years of age with a focus on photography are allowed to take part. Thematically related groups of images or sequences that have not yet received a prize in other competitions are taken into account.
Jury (2020)
The jury consists of five members:
- Rineke Dijkstra , Dutch photographer, Amsterdam
- Jeff Rosenheim, curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York
- Ursula Frohne , art historian, Westphalian Wilhelms University , Münster
- Anja Bartenbach, donor family, Cologne
- Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Head of the Photography Collection / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
Award winners
- 2020: Rebecca Unz with the Sensibelchen series
- 2018: Francesco Neri with the series Farmers
Web links
Single receipts
- ↑ Professional photo from November 3, 2019: SK Foundation Culture: August Sander Prize , accessed on May 1, 2020
- ↑ SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn: Rebecca Unz is awarded the August Sander Prize 2020 , accessed on May 1, 2020
- ^ Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur: August Sander Prize Winner 2020: Rebecca Unz will be awarded the August Sander Prize 2020 (PDF; 130 kB), accessed on May 1, 2020
- ^ Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur: Winner of the first August Sander Prize: Francesco Neri , accessed on May 1, 2020