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Prix Pictet

  • Jannat, Barmer (detail), 1999, part of Notes from the Desert by Gauri Gill. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan

    Prix Pictet Human at the V&A review: an exhilarating, scary photographic journey

  • Urma and Nimli, Lunkaransar

    Gauri Gill wins Prix Pictet award – in pictures

  • A man in a stetson with sparks flying in the background, in La Garza, Guerrero, Mexico.

    Prix Pictet shortlist 2023: Human – in pictures

    Prix Pictet has announced the 12 photographers shortlisted by the independent jury for 10th cycle of the award
  • A sterile pink-tiled bathroom, with a girl bent right over backwards to see herself in the mirror (her feet face away from the mirror)

    Flexing it! Mind-bending female photography – in pictures

    A new book by Prix Pictet features recent work by 64 women on the theme of sustainability, from freefalling office workers to funeral customs in rural China
  • My grandmother assisted her sick husband to walk, 2014 by Mak Remissa.

    Prix Pictet 2021: Fire review – a world going up in flames

    Charred aftermaths from the Amazon to Australia loom large in the latest global award for photography and sustainability
  • Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, WONDER BEIRUT, The story of a Pyromaniac Photographer

    Prix Pictet shortlist 2021: Fire – in pictures

    A shortlist of 13 photographers has been selected for the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet, a global award in photography and sustainability, for their responses to the theme of ‘fire’
  • From the series: When Tears Don’t Matter

    Confinement: photographic responses to the pandemic

    Prix Pictet, the world’s leading prize for photography and sustainability, has gathered together responses to Covid-19 by 43 artists from 20 nations
  • A clipping of a newspaper article announcing my father had been released on bail in 1976

    The Guardian picture essay
    Tracing lives: a visual response to coronavirus

    In part four of our series in collaboration with Prix Pictet, the photographer Alexia Webster provides an intimate portrait of her parents, telling the story of life and her own origins in South Africa and examining the violence and triumphs, mixing new images with projections of moments from their lives
  • Rinko Kawauchi Prix Pictet series

    The Guardian picture essay
    Keeping the fire going: a visual response to coronavirus

    In part three of our series commissioned in conjunction with the Prix Pictet, we present the work of photographer Rinko Kawauchi
  • Hülya Aslan, modest fashion consultant/influencer.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Istanbul: Faces of Now – a lockdown diary

    In the second part of our series commissioned in conjunction with the Prix Pictet, photographer Rena Effendi explores Istanbul and talks to residents in Covid-19 quarantine
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    The Guardian picture essay
    Isolation and contemplation: Nadav Kander's visual response to coronavirus

    In the first part of our series commissioned in conjunction with the Prix Pictet, a global award in photography and sustainability, photographers who have won or been shortlisted for the award over the last decade have been asked to make a personal response to the Covid-19 crisis. Here Nadav Kander speaks about his submission Solitude - Quietude – Contemplation
  • The 2019 Prix Pictet winner, Joana Choumali, standing in front of her series Ça va aller.

    Joana Choumali wins 2019 Prix Pictet photography prize

    Artist becomes first African to win the prestigious prize, for embroidered pictures created following terrorist attack
  • Civilians who had remained in west Mosul during the battle to retake the city, lining up to receive aid, Iraq 2017.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Prix Pictet 2019 shortlist – photo essay

    The shortlist of the photographers for the 2019 Prix Pictet has been announced. Each photographer is chosen for a body of work
  • Richard Mosse, Grid (Moria), 2017, sixteen-channel HD flat creen installation, 6 mins 52 seconds, from the series Heat Maps, 2016-17 © Richard Mosse, Prix Pictet 2017

    Prix Pictet 2017: Richard Mosse wins prize with heat-map shots of refugees

    The Irishman takes the prestigious award with his spectral images of migrants, taken with a camera deemed a weapon under international law
  • Migrants arrive by a Turkish boat near the village of Skala, onthe Greek island of Lesbos

    Prix Pictet 2016 shortlist turns the lens on space - in pictures

    From Hong Kong’s tiny subdivided flats to the migrant crisis the Prix Pictet shortlist explores the theme of space from all perspectives
  • Detail of Still life with mirror (2014) by Valérie Belin, winner of the Prix Pictet

    Valérie Belin wins Prix Pictet for showing how consumers are 'slowly killing the planet'

    The French photographer’s project Still Life took memento mori of cheap, plastic goods (from Slinkys to soldier dolls) to expose grotesque excess
  • Michael Oryem, 29, is a recently defected Lord’s Resistance Army fighter whose LRA group was involved in the poaching of Ivory in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 17 November 2014, Nzara, South Sudan
Series: A violation of Eden

    Prix Pictet prize 2015: shortlist captures theme of disorder – in pictures

    Dramatic images of refugee smuggling, ivory poaching and floods feature in the shortlist for the sixth global award for photography and sustainability
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    Source-to-table food project takes Prix Pictet photography prize

    Michael Schmidt wins prize that rewards photographers working on environmental and sustainability issues
  • Untitled, from Lebensmittel by Michael Schmidt

    Michael Schmidt wins Prix Pictet for sprawling global food series

    Sean O'Hagan: German-born photographer beat Adam Bartos and other big names for an epic look inside factory farms, slaughterhouses and supermarkets

  • Project Family #02 by Motoyuki Daifu one the shortlisted 2014 Prix Pictet.

    2014 Prix Pictet shortlist - in pictures

    The shortlist for the Prix Pictet, the award devoted to photography and sustainability, features an array of talent on the theme of 'consumption'. The shortlist contains 11 finalists and the winner will be announced on 21 May. An exhibition of all the work is on display at the V&A museum from 22 May
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