The C/O Berlin Talent Award is the only prize of its kind in Europe. It recognizes out- standing 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 (to be shared between both po- sitions). 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 has been made possible by the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung.

THE 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 nar- ratives and a more diverse use of different media in museums and galleries. To what extent does photography still function as a means of documentation? How has our 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 winning project of the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2023 in the Artist category can be located in the field of artistic research and visual archives and deals with the themes of anthropology and sociality as well as the relationship between human and nature.

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