Media Release

Cologne, 28 October 2025

Jointly with the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie will be presenting the two awards “Thinking Photography” and “Writing Photography” at the Goethe-Institut Paris on November 14, 2025.

  •  Dzifa Peters receives the DGPh Research Award “Thinking Photography
  • Esther Gabrielle Kersley wins the DGPh Award for Innovative Publication “Writing Photography

Dzifa Peters was recognized with the “Thinking Photography” award for the research conducted for her dissertation “Tropes of Polarity: Visual Representation and Afrodiasporic Identities”  and Esther Gabrielle Kersley received the “Writing Photography” award for her journalistic commentary “The hooded man at the computer: What are cyber images telling us?”.

In conversation with Lucia Halder, head of the DGPh History and Archives section and curator at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne and Nela Eggenberger, art historian specializing in contemporary photography and founding editor of the magazine P.IN.E.A Photography Intermedia Et Al., the two winners will present their respective works and discuss their research approaches.

The winners of both awards were announced earlier this year. Anoucement January 2025

We are delighted about the publication and cordially invite you to attend the award ceremony. Please register here (Eventbride)

Contact: 
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie e. V. (DGPh) 
Regina Plaar (Press & Public Relation) 
Tel.: +49(0)221 923 20 69 
regina.plaar@dgph.de 

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Dzifa Peters. Josef Zky_Being a guest
Dzifa Peters. Josef Zky_Being a guest
Dzifa Peters. Carolina Arantes_First Generation
Dzifa Peters. Carolina Arantes_First Generation
Portrait Dzifa Peter © Luna Peters
Portrait Dzifa Peter © Luna Peters
Portrait Esther Gabrielle Kersley
Portrait Esther Gabrielle Kersley
Composite of the "cliched" cyber image: Clockwise from left to right: Image 1, Flickr, Christoph Scholz, Image 2, Pixaby, Image 3, PICSHADOW8672, Pixahive, Image 4, Flickr, Richard Patterson, Image 5, Pixaby, Image 6, Wikimedia Commons, David Whelan.
Composite of the "cliched" cyber image: Clockwise from left to right: Image 1, Flickr, Christoph Scholz, Image 2, Pixaby, Image 3, PICSHADOW8672, Pixahive, Image 4, Flickr, Richard Patterson, Image 5, Pixaby, Image 6, Wikimedia Commons, David Whelan.
The "cliched" image, image-text composite, Image: Pixaby
The "cliched" image, image-text composite, Image: Pixaby