georg koppmann prize for hamburg city photography

The “Georg Koppmann Prize for Hamburg City Photography” scholarship was announced for the first time in autumn 2018. The Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation awards it annually together with the Department of Urban Development and Housing in honour of the Hamburg photographer Georg Koppmann (1842-1909), who continuously documented Hamburg's development into a major city at the end of the 19th century.

It is awarded for an artistic-documentary examination of the changing cityscape of Hamburg. In the spirit of Koppmann, the work should make a contribution to the continuous documentation of these changes. An independent photographic perspective on the city as a living space should be developed in order to deal with its processes of change, whereby a reflection of current discussions about the development of Hamburg is desirable. The focus of your work should, however, be on the built city and its aesthetic-spatial qualities.