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Mounting Rene Mati?’s snapshots in Perspex isn’t really enough to make them interesting | Charlotte Jansen

The fact a queer, working-class person of colour has won the Deutsche Börse prize is cheering, but what is on display at the Photographers’ Gallery resembles a student’s Tumblr feed

At 29, Rene Mati? is the youngest ever person to win the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize. They were nominated for their solo exhibition As Opposed to the Truth at CCA Berlin – there is currently a much smaller reconfiguration representing part of the show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London. Mati? was also the youngest artist ever to be nominated for the Turner prize last year.

There are things I like about Mati?. I like the way they challenge what counts in life and art, and what counts as British. Their 2022 work, Upon This Rock (shown in Berlin though not in the current display in London) – a photographic installation and a film exploring the artist’s father, Paul, and his involvement with the skinhead movement – felt like it was breaking new ground, conceptually and materially. Mati?’s yearning to understand masculinity and fatherhood as forces shaping national identity, and the way they incorporate new stories into the folds of Britain’s historical fabric, felt original and exciting.

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May 15, 2026 The Photographers' Gallery Deutsche Börse photography prize Art

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