Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon - Nuclear Waste

The Deutsche Borse Photography prize shortlisted artists are being exhibited at The Photographers Gallery in London until April 12th. I went to see it yesterday in-between picking up a repaired Mac and browsing cameras I can't afford. For me the most engaging work was "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar" by Taryn Simon. Her images are beautifully conceived, individually and as a set, and beautifully realised. It's a work with a clear, but not simplistic or one-dimensional vision, it tells us stuff but it has ambiguities to illuminate rather than to obscure. I hope it wins (even though I was born the same year as Taryn and usually that prevents me from enjoying another photographers success).