Europe

European Central Bank Annual Photography Award 2008.

Europe stands for unity in diversity, for common roots and individual forms of expression, for shared traditions and regional variations. As 2008 marks the tenth anniversary of the European Central Bank (ECB), this year’s Cultural Days of the ECB and in its framework the ECB Annual Photography Award were dedicated not to a single country, but rather to the whole of the European Union and its 27 Member States.

‘Europe’ therefore is the theme of the ECB Annual Photography Award 2008. The ECB invited photographers to present their vision of Europe today and asked 27 country curators to each nominate three photographic works dealing with that subject. The submitted photographs were assessed by an international jury of experts.

The ten photographic works shortlisted for the ECB Annual Photography Award 2008 are presented for the first time to the public in an exhibition at the Photokina trade fair in Cologne which is accompanied by this catalogue.