Deutsche Börse photography prize 2010: the shortlist

Anna Fox, from the series The Village (1991-1993)
Fox was nominated for the way she 'dissects the bizarre and the ordinary in British life', said chair of the judges and director of the Photographers' Gallery Brett Rogers Photograph: Anna Fox

Anna Fox, Country Girls (1999) from her series of the same name Photograph: Anna Fox and Alison Goldfrapp

Zoe Leonard, an image from her Analogue series (1998-2009)
'Leonard traverses photographic genres in her unique approach to urban anthropology', the judges said Photograph: Courtesy of Zoe Leonard and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Another of Leonard's Analogue photographs Photograph: Courtesy of Zoe Leonard and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Donovan Wylie, Sterile, Phase 1 (2003)
Granted exclusive access to Northern Ireland's Maze prison, Wylie captures what the judges referred to as 'the psychology of architecture' Photograph: Donovan Wylie/Magnum

Donovan Wylie, Deconstruction of the Maze prison (2009) Photograph: Donovan Wylie/Magnum

Sophie Ristelhueber, Fait No 31 (1992)
Ristelhueber photographs war zones after the combatants have long since departed, recording the impact of battle Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber/adagp

Sophie Ristelhueber, WB No 7 (2005)
The judges were impressed by the way she 'reveals the marks of history on the physical and human landscape', commented Rogers Photograph: Sophie Ristelhueber/adagp