New Work Commissioned for 'Ten Artists, Ten Images', Tate Modern, London, (2000)

New work was commissioned for 'Ten Artists, Ten Images', Tate Modern, London, (2000). To celebrate the opening of Tate Modern in 2000, Tate Publishing invited ten international contemporary artists working with photography make an image inspired by the Bankside building and its surroundings. Besides Billingham, the other commissioned artists were Jeff Wall, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Rineke Dijkstra, Sam Taylor-Wood, Hannah Collins, Uta Barth, Craigie Horsfield, Catherine Yass, The resulting pictures charted different aspects of the site’s development from power station to museum of modern art under the direction of Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron. With the exception of Craigie Horsfield, all the contributors photographed in colour. All ten images were exhibited in the Members Room, Tate Modern, London