In 1997, Richard  Billingham was the first recipient of the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize and the following year BBC2 broadcast his film Fishtank, produced by Artangel and filmmaker Adam Curtis. He exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2001 and was nominated for the Turner Prize, also 2001. He has made  work  about  his  immediate  family,  about  animals  in  zoos  around  the  world  and  about  the British landscape. Recently he has written and directed his first feature film for cinema called “Ray & Liz”, shot on location in the Midlands where he grew up. His work is held in many collections including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, V & A and Tate Galleries, London.