Recognition
In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer and also the first non-English artist to be awarded the Turner Prize. In 2009 he was awarded the Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie (The Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography).
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