In Pictures: The three photographers selected for the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015
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Three artists have been selected for the inaugural Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. Each received £5,000 and technical/curatorial support to produce new work for the Award exhibition. Explore their work below
Joanna Piotrowska
Joanna Piotrowska’s work explores anxiety and the effects of global and political events on the individual. Counteracting the passive role encouraged of adolescent girls, Joanna has enlisted young women to recreate poses from self-defence manuals.
Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled. Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015
Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled. Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015Tereza Zelenkova travelled to her native Czech Republic to explore themes of history, local legend and folklore. Her eerily beautiful, black and white photographs of woodlands, stone structures and relics form their own dream-like, subconscious world, where stories fuel the viewer’s interpretation.
Tereza Zelenkova, Dog Cemetery. Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015
Tereza Zelenkova, Dog Cemetery. Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015
Tereza Zelenkova, Elizabeth Bathory's bedroom, Čachtice Castle. Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015
Tereza Zelenkova, Stairs. Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015Matthew Finn has been photographing his mother in a series of collaborative portraits since 1987. His Jerwood/Photoworks Award has enabled him to revisit this series at an emotional time that has seen his mother move from her family home into an assisted living residence. Matthew’s mother’s mental health has changed her role in the portraits from active participant to one of an observed subject; shifting the focus of his images towards objects and metaphor.
Matthew Finn, Untitled, Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 from the series Mother (1987-present) 
Matthew Finn, Untitled, Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 from the series Mother (1987-present) 
Matthew Finn, Untitled, Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 from the series Mother (1987-present) 
Matthew Finn, Untitled, from the series Mother (1987-present) Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015
Matthew Finn, Untitled, Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 from the series Mother (1987-present)- The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 is at Jerwood Space, London from November 4 – December 13 2015.
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Three places to see great photography in
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
The current exhibition, Defence Through the Lens, showcases the very best work of photographers from the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force. Powerful images range from World War I and Iraq and Afghanistan to peacetime training. Until January 10 2016.
The Photographers' Gallery, London
The largest public gallery in London dedicated to photography. From the latest emerging talent, to historical archives and established artists – this is the place to see photography in all its forms.
Belfast Exposed Photography
Founded in 1983 as a community photography initiative, Belfast Exposed Photography now functions as a gallery for contemporary photography with emphasis on commissioning and publication of new work. It holds a community photography archive.
