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Kofi Annan to Award the Prix Pictet 2009

We have received almost 300 submissions to the Prix Pictet 2009, and judging is now underway to decide the shortlist, which will be announced at the Rencontres d'Arles Festival on 9 July 2009. The exhibition of shortlisted work will be at the Passage de Retz, Paris between 22 October – 24 November 2009, where the winner of this year’s CHF100,000 Prix Pictet will be announced by Kofi Annan on 22 October 2009. One of the shortlisted photographers will be invited to complete a commission to record a sustainability project supported by Pictet & Cie. Prix Pictet has negotiated partnerships with FIAC and Paris Photo.
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Prix Pictet 2009 Jury

Zaha Hadid, founding partner of Zaha Hadid Architects and winner of the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize, has joined the Jury of the Prix Pictet 2009.

The Prix will be judged by an internationally distinguished panel of experts led by Francis Hodgson, Photography critic, Financial Times and Former Head of Photographs, Sotheby's. Other members of the Jury are:
Benoit Aquin, Jan Dalley, Loa Haagen Pictet, Zaha Hadid, Professor Sir David King and Fumio Nanjo.
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Prix Pictet 2008 in Geneva

Munem Wasif’s Prix Pictet 2008 Commission, Salt Water Tears: Lives Left Behind in Satkhira, Bangladesh was exhibited at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices and the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, June 2009.
First shown at the Mall Galleries, to coincide with the launch of Prix Pictet 2009 - Earth, the commissioned photographs document the effects of rising salinity levels on the lives of the people in the area of Satkhira, Bangladesh.
Munem Wasif was asked to chronicle a WaterAid project in Bangladesh which is supported by Pictet & Cie, and made two separate, ten-day, visits to the south-western district. More...

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