Shanghai: The first prize in the world dedicated to photography and sustainability, the Prix Pictet, is presenting an exhibition at the historical Peace Hotel in Shanghai.
The exhibition featuring highlight works from 12 shortlisted photographers from the 10th cycle of the Prix Pictet will be open for free to the public until Jan 5, and the complete collection of their photographs will be featured from January to the end of March at Fotografiska, a contemporary art museum located in Sihang Warehouse at 127 Guangfu Road in Jing’an district, Shanghai.
The Prix Pictet was founded by Pictet, a Swiss investment group in 2008, aiming to “help to deepen understanding of the changes taking place in our world and raise public awareness about the urgency of taking preventive action,” according to the late Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations. To date there have been 10 cycles of the award, each of which has highlighted a particular facet of sustainability, such as water and growth.
The latest cycle featured the theme of human, with 12 photographers from all over the world entering the shortlist. Winner of the grand prize is Gauri Gill, a woman photographer from India. For more than 20 years she has been engaged closely with marginalized communities in the desert of western Rajasthan, and for the last decade with artists in Maharashtra.
Today the Prix Pictet has become “the biggest photography prize in the world in the area of environment and sustainability”, said Laurent Ramsey, a managing partner of the Pictet Group, at the opening of the exhibition on Nov 21. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
