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The Prix Pictet, the world?s leading prize in photography and sustainability.?will judged by an internationally recognised panel of experts led by?Professor Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford. Other members of the judging panel include?Shahidul Alam, Photographer, Curator and Founder of the Drik Agency in Bangladesh;?Peter Aspden, Arts Writer for the Financial Times;?Michael Fried, Art Historian and Critic;?Loa Haagen Pictet, Pictet & Cie’s art consultant;?Nadav Kander, Winner of the second Prix Pictet;?Christine Loh, CEO of Civic Exchange, Hong Kong; and?Fumio Nanjo, Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
Launched in 2008 by the Geneva-based private bank Pictet & Cie, the Prix Pictet has rapidly established itself as the world?s leading prize in photography and sustainability.?The prize currently plays to a global audience of over 400 million.
As Kofi Annan, the Prix Pictet?s Honorary President, wrote in his recent forward to?Earth ? the book of the second Prix Pictet,?together, these photographs by the artists shortlisted for the Prix Pictet highlight the beauty of the earth we share. But they also expose the damage, deliberately or carelessly, we are inflicting on our own environment. So these images are a celebration and a reminder of the urgent need to change our ways.?
The Jury look for photographs which best contribute to public awareness of issues involving sustainability. The subject matter is not tightly defined, nor is the technique used by the photographer. The judges are simply looking for original contributions that will, in their opinion, best use the resources of photography to communicate issues concerning the topic of the prize. No distinction shall be made between artistic merit and success in communicating the message.
Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. He is also an art critic and a lecturer at Keio University, Tokyo.?More…
Author: Shahidul Alam
Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in chemistry before switching to photography. His seminal work “The Struggle for Democracy” contributed to the removal of General Ershad. Former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik agency, Chobi Mela festival and Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute, considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world.
Shown in MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Modern, Alam has been guest curator of Whitechapel Gallery, Winterthur Gallery and Musee de Quai Branly. His awards include Mother Jones, Shilpakala Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Festival of Photography.
Speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge universities, TEDx, POPTech and National Geographic, Alam chaired the international jury of the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Alam is visiting professor of Sunderland University in UK and advisory board member of National Geographic Society.
John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine describes his book “My journey as a witness”, (listed in “Best Photo Books of 2011” by American Photo), as “The most important book ever written by a photographer.”
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Sir Congrats to you for becoming a jury of Prix Pictet. I have been nominated for Growth and already sent my submission.