Prix Pictet Water Winner Benoit Aquin
Biography
Date and Place of Birth: 14/01/1963, Montreal
Education:
1985 – 1987
New England School of Photography, Boston
City/location: Montreal
My new photojournalistic and documentary projects, since 2002, are an examination of large-scale enviromental issues and their impact on humanity. They demonstrate my artistic and humanistic commitment. I beleive photography is peeking at the essence of things, and i feel greatly rewarded when i think people have been inspired by my work, because it is like planting seeds.
Publications :
2008 : The Chinese « Dust Bowl » , published in Foto8, and Time.com
2007 : The Chinese « Dust Bowl » , published in a book titled Inside China from National Geographic Society, The Walrus and Courrier Japon.
The Northwest Passage published in the Guardian, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair Italy, Le Monde2, Canadian Geographic,
A Portrait Of Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Canadian environmentalist) with Marianne Pearl for Glamour Magazine.
2004-2007 : Published in the daily newspaper LaPresse in Montreal, a series about a worldwide look at the implications of a world without a clean and abundant supply of water, a series about Global Warming with Inuk hunters and a series on the victims of pesticides in banana plantations in Nicaragua.
Prizes :
2007 : Grand Prix in the Lux competition, in the category pertaining to landscape for the series of photos about global warming in the Arctic. Also won a group prize from the Canadian National Newspaper Award for LaPresse in the category Special Project for a series about a worldwide look at the implications of a world without a clean and abundant supply of water
2006 The Federation of Quebec Journalist awarded him the Prix Antoine-Desilets in the news category for his image titled Tsunami. That same year, he was a finalist in the photojournalism section of the Lux competition for his series Tsunami.
2001, Grand Prix in the Lux competition, in the category pertaining to photojournalism, for the series of photos of the Summit of the Americas.
1996, Grand Prix, Prix du Jury and Prix Le Soleil in the Regards du Québec competition.
Exhibitions :
2007 : Territoires Sous Pression, exhibition for the series of photos of stressed environments and solutions being apllied. Work realised in China and Egypt. Exhibited at Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal.
2003 : Slide show at the Biennale de photographie de Montréal 2003 called Ordre public/ désordre mondiale.
