Deutsche Borse Photography Prize

Four photographers have been shortlisted for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. The £30,000 prize rewards a living photographer who has made the most significant contribution to the medium.

Paul Graham is nominated for his publication A Shimmer of Possibility, comprising of 12 individual volumes of photographic short stories of life in contemporary America.

US photographer Tod Papageorge is nominated for the exhibition Passing Through Eden - Photographs of Central Park, which was exhibited at Michael Hoppen Gallery, in London, last year.

Papageorge's black and white images of Manhattan's Central Park, taken between 1969 and 1991, offer "an urban version of the Garden of Eden".

Emily Jacir's installation Material for a Film was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2007, and documents the assassination of the Palestinian intellectual Wael Zuwaiter by Israeli agents in Rome in 1972.

Jacir uses photographs, objects, texts and interviews in her installation, described as "intensely personal and deeply political".

Taryn Simon's solo exhibition An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar was shown at The Photographers' Gallery, London, in 2007. Her works "reflect on and reveal a national identity".

The winner will be announced at a special ceremony on Wednesday at The Photographers' Gallery, London.

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