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The theme for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet is Hope – a theme that offers a wide range of creative possibilities and a strong set of connections to the Prix Pictet’s overriding theme of sustainability. Hope in the face of adversity. Recycling. Reforestation. Rewilding. Science – advances in medicine – and technological solutions for global environmental problems. Falling poverty levels. It is time to examine some of the positive actions on sustainability that are beginning to emerge by contrast with the alarming analysis that constantly assails us in the global media.
The Prix Pictet aims to harness the power of photography – all genres of photography – to draw global attention to issues of sustainability, especially those concerning the environment.
Founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, the Prix Pictet has become the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. To date, there have been eight cycles of the award each of which has highlighted a particular facet of sustainability. The nine themes are Water, Earth, Growth, Power, Consumption, Disorder, Space, Hope and Fire.
The Prix Pictet Award Ceremony, where Joana Choumali was announced as the eighth laureate of the Prix Pictet, took place on the 13 November 2019 at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Untitled. Joana Choumali. 2019
Winner
Joana Choumali, Born 1974, Côte d'Ivoire, female. Lives and works in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Joana Choumali studied graphic arts in Casablanca, Morocco, and worked as an art director in an advertising agency before embarking on her photography career.
Shortlist
Hajera orders supplies for her orphanage while checking the hair of one of the children for lice. Shahidul Alam. 2014
Shahidul Alam, Born 1955, Bangladesh, male. Lives and works in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photographer, writer, curator and human rights activist Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in Chemistry from London University before taking up photography.
Embodying Hope. A morning in the sand dunes. Margaret Courtney-Clarke 2015
Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Born 1949, Namibia, female. Lives in Swakopmund, Namibia. Margaret Courtney-Clarke studied art and photography in South Africa and has spent the last four decades working as a photographer in Italy, the United States and across Africa.
“ Perhaps in our ability to carry on in adversity lies hope for us all. Hope that, despite the catastrophic damage that we have visited upon the natural world and upon the lives of our most vulnerable citizens, it is not too late to reverse the damage that we have done.
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Members of the Borca family relax after a long day at work on the land. Rena Effendi. 2012
Rena Effendi, Born 1977, Azerbaijan, female. Lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. Educated as a linguist, Rena Effendi’s early work focused on the oil industry’s effects on people’s lives in her region.
Rachel Mud Bathing, Virginia. Lucas Foglia. 2009
Lucas Foglia, Born 1983, United States, Male. Lives and works in San Francisco, United States. His third book, Human Nature, was published in 2017 by Nazraeli Press.
Summer Wreath. Janelle Lynch. 2017
Janelle Lynch, Born 1969, USA, female. Lives and works in New York, United States. Lynch received an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York where she studied with Joel Sternfeld and Stephen Shore. In 2003, she completed the Master Class in Photography, a one-on-one tutorial with Shore at Bard College.
A young woman, asphyxiated by tear gas, is helped by other mourners after the political funeral of four young activists killed in clashes with the police in Duduza Township. July 1985. Gideon Mendel. scanned and reframed in 2016
Gideon Mendel, Born 1959, South Africa, male. Lives and works in London, United Kingdom. He studied Psychology and African History at the University of Cape Town. He began photographing in the 1980s, during the final years of apartheid.
Limbs 9. Ross McDonnell. 2012
Ross McDonnell, Born 1979, Ireland. Lives and works in New York. His work is manifested in long term documentary projects focused on themes of sustainability, conflict, migration and ecology.
An unidentified young boy, who was carried out of the last ISIS-controlled area in the Old City of Mosul by a man suspected of being a militant, is cared for by Iraqi special forces soldiers. Ivor Prickett. 2017
Ivor Prickett, Born 1983, Ireland, male. Lives and works in Europe and the Middle East. Most recently the work of Ivor Prickett has focused on the fight to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Working exclusively for the The New York Times he spent months on the ground reporting in both words and pictures.
Black Friday (Selected still image 1) Robin Rhode. 2017
Robin Rhode, Born 1976, South Africa, male. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. A multidisciplinary artist, he engages in a variety of visual languages such as photography, performance, drawing and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives that are brought to life using quotidian materials such as soap, charcoal, chalk and paint
#448-18 Awoiska van der Molen. 2018
Awoiska van der Molen, Born 1972, Netherlands, female. Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She studied Architecture and Design followed by Photography at Minerva Art Academy Groningen, Netherlands.
Two friends pose for their portrait on the corner of Cornwell and Hercules Street in Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa. Alexia Webster. 2011
Alexia Webster, Born 1979, South Africa. Lives and works in New York, United States. Alexia Webster is a photographer and visual artist whose work explores intimacy, family and identity across the African continent and beyond.
Exhibition dates
September 17th - November 6th 2021
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