Scotiabank Photography Award goes to Angela Grauerholz of Montreal

Known for her dreamy, etherealimages and moody portraits, Montreal photographer Angela Grauerholzhas won the fifthannual$50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award.

The juryprize was announced Wednesday in Toronto.

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"For decades, Angela Grauerholz has been consistently building a body of work that evokes place, memory and archives, time past and present," saidphotographerEdward Burtynsky, co-founder of the award. "Many of her images feel as if they were plucked from a dream."

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Grauerholz, who was born in Germany and has been based in Montreal since 1976,has been named a finalist in two of the five years the prize has been handed out. In 2013, she was a runner-up to Vancouver-based Stan Douglas.

This year, Chile-born, Toronto-basedRafael Goldchain and Montreal artist IsabelleHayeur were also named 2015finalists, and receive $10,000 each.

Next year, the Ryerson Image Centre will mount a solo exhibition of Grauerholz's photography in connection with the prize, and a book of her work will be published worldwide.

The National Gallery presented 40 of her images in a 2010 exhibition. Last year, Grauerholz won aGovernor General's Awardin Visual and Media Arts, valued at $25,000.