Harnessing the power of photography to draw global attention to issues of sustainability.

Founded in 2008 by Pictet, the Prix Pictet has become the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. To date, there have been nine cycles of the award, each of which has highlighted a particular facet of sustainability.

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The Prix Pictet aims to uncover photographs that communicate important messages about global environmental and social issues within the broad theme of sustainability. No preference is given to any particular kind of photographic material, technique or creative route, nor are any of these excluded from consideration. An artist using photographs, for example, is judged by precisely the same criteria as a photojournalist or a commercial photographer,or a professional in another field for whom photography may be no more than one of many tools. In arriving at their final decision on the award, the judges make no distinction between photographs of different genres, nor do they assume different potential types of audience for any class of photograph.

2008

Launch of the first Prix Pictet - theme Water

Kofi Annan appointed President

The Financial Times becomes global media partner

Prix Pictet awards exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Benoit Aquin’s The Chinese Dust Bowl wins inaugural award

teNeues publishes first Prix Pictet book

2009/10

Munem Wasif completes first Prix Pictet Commission (Bangladesh)

Nadav Kander wins Prix Pictet Earth for his series Yangtze, The Long River

First shortlist presentation at Les Rencontres d’Arles

First Prix Pictet touring exhibitions in Eindhoven, Thessaloniki, Hong Kong and Dubai

First Prix Pictet exhibitions in Russia and India

2011

Mitch Epstein’s American Power wins Prix Pictet Growth

Collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, London begins with a series of conversations on photography

2012/13

Chris Jordan completes third Prix Pictet Commission (Kenya)

Luc Delahaye wins Prix Pictet Power

First Prix Pictet exhibitions in USA and Lebanon

Prix Pictet exhibitions in Turkey and Israel

2014

First Prix Pictet awards exhibition at the V&A, London

Michael Schmidt’s Lebensmittel wins Prix Pictet Consumption

Juan Fernando Herrán awarded final Prix Pictet Commission (Colombia)

Les Rencontres d’Arles stages first Prix Pictet Laureates exhibition

Prix Pictet Consumption at the National Museum of Art, Mexico City attracts a record audience of over 100,000

2015/15

First Prix Pictet awards exhibition at the V&A, London

Michael Schmidt’s Lebensmittel wins Prix Pictet Consumption

Juan Fernando Herrán awarded final Prix Pictet Commission (Colombia)

Les Rencontres d’Arles stages first Prix Pictet Laureates exhibition

Prix Pictet Consumption at the National Museum of Art, Mexico City attracts a record audience of over 100,000

2017

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2018/19

Mitch Epstein’s American Power wins Prix Pictet

Growth Collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery

London begins with a series of conversations on photography

2020

Mitch Epstein’s American Power wins Prix Pictet

Growth Collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery

London begins with a series of conversations on photography

2022

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Founded in 2008 by Pictet, the Prix Pictet has become the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability.1 To date, there have been nine cycles of the award, each of which has highlighted a particular facet of sustainability

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Entry

Each nominator proposes between two to five photographers. Other photographers wishing to submit their work may contact the secretariat.

Selection

The Jury looks for work, arranged in a coherent series, that fits the theme of the particular cycle, which has a high artistic quality and considerable narrative power.

Winner announcement

Once the submission process has been completed, the independent jury are responsible for drawing up a Shortlist and selecting a winner.

Change starts with planting a seed. When Pictet launched its water equity investment strategy back in 2000, investments targeting positive change and sustainability were virtually unheard of. Two decades later, such strategies are mainstream and thriving

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I have a recurring daydream. Bodiless, I float in outer space and watch from a distance as the sun swallows up the Earth. Everything that has ever breathed or been built now burns away. I recognize the thrumming of life just before it returns to its disintegrated and silent state of origin. The dream is a strangely calm chance of recognition of all that would have been worth saving. Similarly, I am drawn to moments of reflection in my photographs.

With _self portraiture^as starting point, my aim is to recognize myself in others, and to have them see themselves in me. In The Wake in particular speaks of destruction and rebirth. Digitally stripping places from clear historic and geographic markers, and bodies from the confines of their social reality, I imagine what core remains when layers of our everyday are dissolved one by one.

With characters visually submersed in landscapes, separation between their inside and outside melts away. Vulnerability permeates it all. Webs of dark smoke up in the air and deep in one’s lungs: in the words of Judith Butler, the potential of being hurt is an undeniable connection between humans and other ecosystems, one that can and should not be overcome. The strength in being fundamentally endangered is an intrinsic entanglement that calls into question ideas of one neatly defined self. Rather, every self expands into its relations to its environment.

The series is also informed by reflections on the construction of nature – and how tales of its entanglement with bodies have been as romanticized as dangerous. What is this ideal state supposedly preceding culture? Who profits from the idea of untouched wilderness – and thus of the opposing concept of civilization? How has it assisted the construction of Blackness and the exploitation of what is perceived as other? How can Black people think of themselves as complete outside a white matrix, when we are constantly tethered by social reality, and thrown back onto images of Blackness conjured by whiteness? If the fire’s touch has seeped beneath skin, how can you escape it?

IN THE WAKE is set after the blaze, and refers to a space in which these constraints have been left behind. Through fantasy, I want to visualize that bodies and their environments extend into each other, and that being fundamentally hurt and fundamentally whole are not mutually exclusive states for either of them – they hold intrinsic worth. Soot drifts through the air, sticks to skin, mingles with Blackness. Yet, the figure in A Hollow Burn floats far above the fire. The character in Wildfire has long inhaled it, the fire will continue to burn within and dark whips adorn their head – but their gaze is propelled forward, meets the viewer. None of us should have to burn. Since we do, let the ashes paint a clear picture of our belonging. Every body is a means of the universe to witness itself.

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Entry

Each nominator proposes between two to five photographers. Other photographers wishing to submit their work may contact the secretariat.

Selection

The Jury looks for work, arranged in a coherent series, that fits the theme of the particular cycle, which has a high artistic quality and considerable narrative power.

Winner announcement

The Jury looks for work, arranged in a coherent series, that fits the theme of the particular cycle, which has a high artistic quality and considerable narrative power.

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Entry

Each nominator proposes between two to five photographers. Other photographers wishing to submit their work may contact the secretariat.

Selection

The Jury looks for work, arranged in a coherent series, that fits the theme of the particular cycle, which has a high artistic quality and considerable narrative power.

Winner announcement

Once the submission process has been completed, the independent jury are responsible for drawing up a Shortlist and selecting a winner.

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Brent Stirton, Burns Capital Of The World, 2013

Stojna Oreshkova Andrioska, QA, 12/10/2022

Sally Mann, Blackwater, 2008-2012

Joana Hadjithomas and Khail Joreige, Wonder Beirut, 1998-2006

David Brown, Artworks title, 2022

Carla Rippey, Immolation, 2009-2019

David Uzochukwu, In The Wake, 2020

Rinko Kawauchi, Hanabi, 2001

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Founded in 2008^by Pictet, the Prix Pictet has become the world_’s leading award for photography and sustainability. To date₁, there have been nine cycles of the award, each² of which has highlighted a particular facet of sustainability.

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