Deadline: 26 April 2024
If you write about photography and are interested in postcolonial discourses as well as linguistics, communication and sign systems? Apply for the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2024 in the category Theory!
Since 2006, C/O Berlin Foundation has been promoting young fine-art photographers and photography theorists. Since then, more than 80 talents have been presented to a wider audience through exhibitions and publications, including the artists Karolina Wojtas, Anna Ehrenstein, Stefanie Moshammer, Sebastian Stumpf, and Tobias Zielony as well as the photo theorists Emmanuel Iduma, Jule Hillgärtner, Christin Müller, Heide Häusler.
The C/O Berlin Talent Award is the only prize of its kind in Europe. It recognizes outstanding work in both photographic practice and theory. It is awarded annually in the disciplines of artistic photography (Artist) and photo-theoretical writing (Theorist) and is endowed with prize money of totally €10,000 (€7,000 for the Artist/ €3,000 for the Theorist). C/O Berlin produces a solo exhibition with the award-winning Artist and a publication with Spector Books to accompany it. The task of the Theorist is to write an essay on the selected artwork and to conduct an interview with the Artist, both of which will appear in the book. Since 2020, the C/O Berlin Talent Award is made possible by the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung.
Theme
- The C/O Berlin Talent Award’s central theme is New Documentary Strategies. The aim is to support and encourage a critical approach to traditional documentary narratives. To what extent does photography still function as a means of documentation? How has the trust in the medium changed through the use of “networked images”? What new narrative strategies are being developed to understand and remember the events taking place in the world around us?
- The work that received the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2024 in the Artist category addresses the rootedness of language and sign systems in colonial power structures. By combining past and present, the project sheds light on how Africa’s colonial oppression is still reflected today in the use of ‘Western’ communication systems.
Eligibility Criteria
- Under 35 years old (exceptions may apply)
- Experience in writing about postcolonial discourses as well as an interest in linguistics, communication and sign systems
- Familiarity with the overall theme of the C/O Berlin Talent Award: New Documentary Strategies.
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