What interests me in particular about these photo graphs of 8-12 -year-old children, from the series "Krux", is not their sociological and societal conditions, so much as the child as theme. Childhood readily lends itself as a utopian site for man's inspiring and graphic self-ascertainment. Through their formal reduction, the emotional charge and concentrated repetition of the naked torsos and the associated myth of utopian purity and lost innocence, these photographs examine, and lend ambivalent expression to, the model character of a childlike perspective.
- Bernhard Prinz -

Nominated by Klaus Biesenbach, Artistic Director of Kunst-Werke Berlin, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.