Now in its 14th year, The Photographers’ Gallery’s annual price of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution to photography in Europe, between 1 October 2008 and 30 September 2009.
I went this morning to The Photographers’ Gallery to see the exhibition, specially Donovan Wylie work, one of the nominated. As I have been selected to do a workshop next week with the Mangun Photographer, I became more interested in his job, I knew his Losing Ground photo story, but not much about The Maze Prison one (a symbol for the conflict between loyalists and nationalists).
He documents the fabric and physical structure of the eponymous Maze Prison and its subsequent demolition in 2007. Wylie spent almost a hundred days between 2002 and 2003 photographing inside the Maze prison. He was then the only photographer granted official and unlimited access to the site, when the demolition of the prison began, symbolizing the end of the conflict in 2007.
DONOVAN WYLIE, „The Maze Prison. Sterile, Phase 1″, 2003 NORTHERN IRELAND © Donovan Wylie/ Magnum Photos
If you do not want to miss this exhibition, you should go soon as it will be until Sunday.
The next time I just read a blog, This particular that going barefoot doesnt disappoint me nearly this. I mean, Yes, it was my alternative to popular read, but I just thought youd have something interesting to imply. All I hear is often a ton of whining about something that you could fix when you werent too busy in search of attention.