Fang-tastic! Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist – in pictures

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Tooth versus fiction … Near Dark, from the Encyclopaedia series, 2023-2025

From retro images altered with AI to a blistering series on the state of women’s prisons, this year’s nominees for the prestigious £30,000 prize showcase their best work

Tooth is stranger than fiction … Near Dark, from the Encyclopaedia series, 2023-2025. Photograph: Weronika Gęsicka

Wed 22 Oct 2025 08.00 CEST

Black and white photograph of two people kissing

Black and white self-portrait photograph of Rene Matić holding a camera to their face

Colour photograph of bunches of flowers around a lamppost on top of a floral arrangement of the Jamaican flag.

Colour photograph of a woman in cowboy attire posing with a gun in her hand. In the picture you can also see she has extended incisors and reddened eyes

Colour photograph of three children sat at a table with lemons spread out, along with a grater and a jug

Set of three photographs of a monster-like figure in shallow waters. The image on the far left also has a little boy paddling in the water.

Colour photograph of a man sat on a desk with a pen and paper in hand. The photo has a hologram of a woman in view.

Black and white photograph of a woman behind a net curtain, holding two babies in each of her arms.

Black and white photograph of a woman behind a net curtain, holding two babies in each of her arms.

Black and white close-up photograph of a person’s mouth open and smiling. The person wears grills on their teeth.

Black and white photograph of two children standing in the middle of a forest. The person on the right is obscuring the eyes of the person on the left, and the person on the left is obscuring the eyes of the person on the right

Black and white photograph of a woman sat on a prison bed staring into the distance

Black and white photograph of a woman handcuffed in a bed with tubes and straps taped to her stomach

Black and white photograph of an unidentified couple mid embrace

Black and white photograph of someone pouring liquid into a cup held by a prisoner through a small opening in a door.

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