The DZ Bank AG has been promoting the work of young artists in the field of contemporary artistic photography since 1993. Prizes are presented in the disciplines “artistic photography” and “accelerated photography/video art” and each is endowed with 12,000 Euros. The awards for 2002/2003 went to Elias Hassos and Salla Tykkä.
Tykkä received the award for video works demonstrating an obvious autobiographical content. She illuminates the conflicts and emotions that every one of us may experience in the course of life: futility, disappointment, pain, speechlessness – but also hope.
