Esko Männikkö Wins 2008 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
By Megan • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyLaura Nathan reports forPDN Online:
“Esko Männikkö has received the 2008 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, which is awarded annually to an international photographer who has made a significant contribution to the medium during the past year. Männikkö was presented with the £30,000 (about $60,500) prize during a ceremony on Wednesday, March 5.
The Finnish photographer won the 2008 prize for his retrospective Cocktails 1990-2007, a collection of portraits, landscape and still life shots documenting life on the margins of society. The photographs were drawn from some of Männikkö’s notable series, including The Female Pike, which shows bachelors living in isolation in the Finnish countryside, and his ongoing project Harmony Sisters, which features abstract, still-life-inspired photographs of animals shot in zoos and on farms around the world.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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