Dramatic Images of ‘Disorder’ Revealed in 2015 Prix Pictet Shortlist
Twelve photographers are in the running for a prize of $105,000
A Million Shillings- Escape from Somalia
A Million Shillings- Escape from Somalia
Drowning World
Drowning World
Still life with mask
Still life with shoes
On Friday, the Pictet Group announced the shortlist for the sixth cycle of the Prix Pictet Award, a juried international competition of photography that confronts issues facing the environment and sustainability. This cycle’s theme was disorder, “The eternal struggle between order and chaos,” Chairman Stephen Barber said. “Throughout the world there are examples of attempts to impose order without a clear understanding of the long-term consequences of doing so. With each passing day the illusion of order is shattered in a thousand different ways.”
The 12 photographers listed below, with projects covering popular uprisings in Ukraine, poaching in Congo, the Mediterranean refugee crisis, the disappearance of honey bees, as well as more conceptual takes on the theme, will have their work on view at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from Nov. 12, 2015, at which point the winner will be announced. The exhibition will tour through a dozen countries from January 2016 and will be published in book form with essays by leading writers on the theme.
The winner will come away with a pretty staggering prize of 100,000 Swiss Francs, or roughly $105,000 USD, which should reasonably allot a photographer the leeway to spend at least a year focusing on personal projects.
Links to shortlists photographers:
Ilit Azoulay, born Jaffa 1972, lives and works Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
Valérie Belin, born Boulogne-Billancourt 1964, lives and works Paris, France
Matthew Brandt, born Los Angeles 1982, lives and works Los Angeles, USA
Maxim Dondyuk, born Polyan’ 1983, lives and works Nova Kabovka, Ukraine
Alixandra Fazzina, born London 1974, lives and works London, UK
Ori Gersht, born Tel Aviv 1967, lives and works London, UK
John Gossage, born New York 1946, lives and works Washington DC, USA
Pieter Hugo, born Johannesburg 1976, lives and works Cape Town, South Africa
Gideon Mendel, born Johannesburg 1959, lives and works London, UK
Sophie Ristelhueber, born Paris 1949, lives and works Paris, France
Brent Stirton, born Durban 1969, lives and works New York, USA
Yang Yongliang, born Shanghai 1980, lives and works Shanghai, China