The winners of Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013 are Broomberg & Chanarin for War Primer 2

The London-based artists won the £30,000 prize, awarded at The Photographers’ Gallery this evening, for their critically acclaimed work, War Primer 2. Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's work physically inhabits the pages of Bertolt Brecht’s 1955 publication War Primer. The original was published in German in 1955 under the title Kriegsfibel. While War Primer was concerned with images of the Second World War, War Primer 2 updates Brecht’s piece with images of the conflict generated by both sides of the so-called ‘War on Terror’.

The work will also feature in the New Photography 2013 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in September.

Adam Broomberg (b.1970, South Africa) and Oliver Chanarin (b.1971, London) have published nine monographs and have participated in numerous international exhibitions. Broomberg and Chanarin teach at the Zurich University of the Arts and are Visiting Fellows at the University of the Arts London. Their work is represented in major public collections including; MoMA, Tate Collection, The Stedelijk Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Musee de l'Elysee.