Zoe Leonard (b.1961, USA) is nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 for her retrospective exhibition Zoe Leonard: Photographs, at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (1 April – 5 July 2009), initiated by Fotomuseum Winterthur.

A chronicler of the overlooked, for the last 30 years Leonard has recorded urban landscapes, creating an eclectic and personal inventory of our material world.

Using a variety of traditional printing techniques and always including the distinct border of the negative, Leonard’s work is also a commentary on photography itself. Through series such as Analogue (1998 – 2009) she tracks the disappearance of photographic film’s unique language at the onset of the digital age.