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The favourite is surely Anna Fox for her diverse themes. She offers honest, colour-drenched close-studies of her raw domestic life; freak-show treatment of local villagers; and the shocking but tender little book, My Mother’s Cupboards and My Father’s Words, which positions neat photographs against her father’s cruel outbursts.

Zoe Leonard’s documentary of New York shop fronts and their equivalents in Uganda, is nondescript compared to her quiet study of tree trunks clamped inside metal frames but defiantly growing into sculptural shapes. Sophie Ristelhueber,unites images from childhood with a presentation of war landscapes and scars, but the frustratingly small selection can’t do justice to this considered work.

But my money is on Donovan Wylie’s photo-documentary of the closure and demolition of Belfast’s Maze Prison. A considered, beautiful, and profound work, with deep resonance to his childhood, it is depicted in uniformly muted colours and repetitive patterns which parallel prison routines. The graphic beauty, reminiscent of the pioneering architectural photography of the Bechers, is aptly cold and detached but by exhibiting his granddad’s Scrapbook of the Troubles, emotion rushes in.

The winner is announced on 17 March. Until 18 April. Information: 0845 262 1618; www.photonet.org.uk

Deutsche Borse Photography Prize
The Photographers' Gallery
Ramillies Street, W1F 7LW