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Lebohang Kganye has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024 for her exhibition titled, Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home.Kganye, from Johannesburg, South Africa, was awarded the £30,000 prize on Thursday at a ceremony at The Photographers’ Gallery in London.The annual award recognises artists and projects for their contributions to the world of photography over the past year. Source link

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The napkin on which Barcelona committed to sign a 13-year-old Lionel Messi has been sold in an auction for £762,400.The starting price was £300,000 for the ‘standard Spanish waxy napkin’ which is 16.5 x 16.5cm and was laminated and framed.The napkin, signed in blue ink in December 2000, carries a pledge from then Barcelona director Carles Rexach to sign Messi.It was also signed by Josep Minguella, a transfer adviser to the Spanish club, and agent Horacio Gaggioli, who recommended the Argentine youngster.The napkin in blue ink was offered in an online auction by London-based Bonhams on behalf of Gaggioli.Messi joined…

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