Dana Lixenberg has been announced as winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017.

The Dutch-born photographer and filmmaker was selected as the recipient of the £30,000 prize for her bold, unsentimentalised black and white portraits of the residents and community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts, Los Angeles.

"This was a radical and necessary approach for an area that, on film, was seen by the rest of America through a frantic helicopter camera."

Dana Lixenberg, The Guardian