The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, now in its 15th year, will be on show from 02 April 2011 for one month only at the University of Westminster's Ambika P3 space. The change of venue comes as the Photographers' Gallery is closed until October 2011 as it expands its Soho premises.

This year, two US photographers, Roe Ethridge and Magnum's Jim Goldberg, are joined by German Thomas Demand and Israeli Elad Lassry to compete for the £30,000 cash prize. Each year, the award goes to a living photographer that has made "the most significant contribution, in exhibition or publication format, to the medium of photography in Europe" over the past 12 months.

Demand is nominated for his exhibition, Nationalgalerie, at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (18 September 2009 – 17 January 2010). Ethridge has been selected for his solo exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography 2010, France (3 July – 19 September 2010). Goldberg is nominated for his exhibition Open See, which went on show last year at The Photographers’ Gallery. Finally, Lassry is in the running for his show at Kunsthalle Zürich (13 February – 25 April 2010).

The four nominees were selected by Alex Farquharson, director of Nottingham Contemporary; Marloes Krijnen of Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam; artist Joel Sternfeld; and Anne-Marie Beckmann, the curator of Art Collection Deutsche Börse.

Brett Rogers, director of The Photographers’ Gallery, was the non-voting chair of the jury. She says of this year's selection: "Ranging from the conceptual to the politically engaged, each nominee interrogates the photographic medium in their own distinct way. Thomas Demand’s clear yet strangely enigmatic constructed images explore German history since 1945. Infused with an element of nostalgia and the uncanny, Roe Ethridge blurs the commercial with the editorial to create a new sense of Americana. Open See continues Jim Goldberg’s experimental approach to storytelling combining image and text to document the plight of refugees and immigrants to Europe. Elad Lassry’s work plays with ideas of authorship, originality and appropriation through the innovative use of photography and film."

The winner will be announced on 26 April 2011.

Haltestelle, 2009 © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / DACS, London.

Man 071, 2007 © Elad Lassry/ Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.