Fire: the ninth cycle. Winner to be announced.
Having celebrated 100 exhibitions in more than 40 cities over the last 13 years, the Prix Pictet, the leading award on photography and sustainability, will be announcing its 9th winner on the 15th December at an award ceremony in the Victoria and Albert M
It was a year like no other. Through months of lockdown and confinement museums and galleries remained closed; exhibitions were cancelled, and the art world carousel came to a shuddering halt. The Prix Pictet’s global tour of Hope, tentatively resumed, having been unable to exhibit between Lausanne in September 2020 and Verona in May 2021.
Yet photographers continued to work. A resilience that the Prix Pictet celebrated with the publication of the book Confinement, featuring photographic responses to the crisis by 43 artists previously shortlisted for the award. At the same time, the award began its ninth cycle with the theme of Fire.
Over the past thirteen years the Prix Pictet screening at the Théâtre Antique has become an important part of the opening week of the celebrated Les Rencontres d’arles photography festival in the South of France.
On Thursday 8th July, Stephen Barber, Chair of the Prix Pictet, and Isabelle von Ribbentrop, Executive Director, announced the shortlist for the ninth cycle of the prize. The shortlist features work by 13 artists from 10 countries on 4 continents. In making their selection, the independent jury, chaired by Sir David King, praised the outstanding quality of the portfolios submitted for the award.
The winner of the ninth Prix Pictet award (CHF100,000) will be announced at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Wednesday 15th December 2021.
Prix Pictet Fire will then embark on a world tour beginning with scheduled exhibitions in Tokyo, Zurich and Moscow. Work from the shortlisted artists, together with outstanding images from the wider submission, appear in the book Fire, published by teneues in December. The portfolios of the shortlisted artists can be viewed online at: www.prixpictet.com
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