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Snapshot: China's dust bowl - Nature Reports
20/11/2008 – Anna Barnett writes about Aquin's photos and UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
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Benoit Aquin Wins Prix Pictet for 'Chinese Dust Bowl' Photos - Media Bistro
17/11/2008 – The judges went for images notable for their lack of liquids and chose Benoit Aquin.
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Now that's photography - Business 24/7
14/11/2008 – Patricia Tellis on the Prix Pictet Exhibtiion in Dubai
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Prix Pictet - Time Out Dubai
13/11/2008 – Finalists in this on-going photography competition exploring the theme
of sustainability.
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Images and A Mixed Message from the Antarctic - Yale Environment 360
13/11/2008 – Photographer Sebastian Copeland spent six weeks traveling along the Antarctic Peninsula, where 9,000-foot mountains plunge into the iceberg-studded Southern Ocean.
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Kofi Annan and the elemental power of the image - Telegraph Online
12/11/2008 – Benjamin Secher travels to Paris to see the new major global art prize focusing on sustainability, the Prix Pictet, at the Palais de Tokyo
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Photography Exhibition to Raise Awareness on Sustainability - Khaleej Times
12/11/2008 – DUBAI -- The world’s first photography prize focused on sustainability, Prix Pictet, started its global tour in Dubai with an exhibition of the shortlisted works of the Prix Pictet 2008 prize winner, Benoit Aquin, and 17 of the world’s most eminent photographers at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) on November 10.
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The world through a lens - 7 Days
11/11/2008 – Protecting the planet using photography is the aim of an exciting exhibition that begins its global tour right here in Dubai
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Exhibition At Dubai International Financial Centre - Dubai City Guide
10/11/2008 – Prix Pictet, The World’s First Photography Prize Focused On Sustainability, Opens Global Tour With Exhibition At Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)
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Prix Pictet brings star photographers to Dubai with exhibition - AME Info
10/11/2008 – Prix Pictet, the world's first photography prize to focus on sustainability starts its global tour in Dubai with a new and groundbreaking exhibition featuring the world's best photographers.
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Works Of 18 Of The World’s Most Eminent Photographers Displayed At Exhibition
10/11/2008 – Dubai, UAE - November 10, 2008: Prix Pictet, the world’s first photography prize focused on sustainability, started its global tour in Dubai today with an exhibition of its shortlisted works at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
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Prix Pictet, the World's First Photography Prize Focused on Sustainability, Opens Global Tour with exhibition at DIFC - Zawya
10/11/2008 – The exhibition features the photographic works of the winner of the Prix Pictet 2008 prize, Benoit Aquin, and 17 of the world's most eminent photographers.
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Prix Pictet - Chinese Photography
10/11/2008 – Benoit Aquin
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It's not a waste of time - Metro
10/11/2008 – Last month, Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin was named winner of the inaugural Prix Pictet, a £50,000 photography prize focusing on different aspects of sustainability (the 2008 theme was water).
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Prix Pictet begins global tour with Dubai - Trade Arabia
10/11/2008 – Prix Pictet, the world’s first photography prize focused on sustainability, started its global tour in Dubai with an exhibition of its shortlisted works at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
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Prix Pictet, the World's First Photography Prize Focused on Sustainability, Opens Global Tour with exhibition at DIFC - DIFC Press Centre
10/11/2008 – Prix Pictet, the world's first photography prize focused on sustainability, started its global tour in Dubai today with an exhibition of its shortlisted works at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
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Prix Pictet - The Dubai Life
10/11/2008 – Dubai 10 November 2008: Prix Pictet, the world’s first photography prize focused on sustainability, started its global tour in Dubai today with an exhibition of its shortlisted works at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
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Prix Pictet opens global tour with exhibition at DIFC - UAE Daily News
09/11/2008 – Prix Pictet, the world's first photography prize focused on sustainability, started its global tour in Dubai today with an exhibition of its shortlisted works at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
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Elemental power of the image - The Daily Telegraph
08/11/2008 – The former UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan is supporting a
prestigious new photography prize, with water
as its theme. Benjamin Secher meets him.
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Benoit Aquin scoops first ever Prix Pictet photo prize - British Journal of Photography
05/11/2008 – Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin has won the first Prix Pictet, receiving a EUR50,000 cash prize.
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International photography contest, Prix Pictet, focuses on sustainabilty and water - Water News
04/11/2008 – The first annual photography contest to focus on the theme of “sustainability” awarded Benoit Aquin its grand prize Friday. The award ceremony for the Prix Pictet was overseen by former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.
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The Chinese Dust Bowl - The Walrus Magazine
04/11/2008 – In response to the rapid desertification of its once-fertile steppes and oases, China is undertaking the most ambitious environmental restoration in history.
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Sinai.co.hk
04/11/2008 – Coverage in Hong Kong
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Prix Pictet - Blogilvy
04/11/2008 – A major new global prize celebrating the work of both professional and amateur photographers has been awarded in Paris. The Prix Pictet is the first competition of its type to focus on the global issue of ’sustainability’ - and, this year in particular, on water. The winner is the Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin but take time to see some of the other amazing finalists.
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Prix Pictet audio slideshow - seriously stunning - Duckrabbit
04/11/2008 – The Prix Pictet comes with a serious wad of cash, over $100000, so you would expect it to focus on serious work.
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Munem Wasif / Agence VU’ à l’honneur pour la troisième fois cette année - actuphoto
04/11/2008 – The jury of Prix Pictet, the world's premier photography prize focused on sustainability, has chosen to support Water Aid’s project “Chittagong Hill Tracts”, in Bangladesh. Shortlisted artist Munem Wasif, member of the multi-awarded photography agency VU, has received a CHF 40,000 commission to record the project.
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Canada’s Benoit Aquim Wins $90,000 in Prix Pictet - Studio Lighting
03/11/2008 – Canadian photographer Benoit Aquim has won the first Prix Pictet, said to be the word’s richest photographic prize at 100,000 Swiss francs (£50,000; $90,000).
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Montreal-born photographer Benoit Aquin wins $100K prize - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
03/11/2008 – Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin has won the inaugural edition of an international prize celebrating excellence in environmental photography.
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Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin has won the inaugural edition of an international prize celebrating excellence in environmental photography - Le Devoir
03/11/2008 – The Prix Pictet 2008 has been awarded to Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin for his series “The Chinese Dustbowl” , which shows the largest conversion of productive land into sand anywhere in the world, due to unsustainable farming practices.
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The Prix Pictet - A photographic documentary of our Earth screaming - Muse Green
03/11/2008 – My husband emailed me this morning about a BBC World Service article he’d listened to on the way into work. It was about the Prix Pictet, a major new global prize in photography that focuses on what the general populus and politicians alike should consider a #1 prioirty for the twenty-first century: sustainability. The award is sponsored by Pictet & Cie, in association with the Financial Times.
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The Chinese Dust Bowl - CEM Ideas
03/11/2008 – Coming to the more standard adult world, the inaugural Prix Pictet photography award went to a Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin and his “Chinese Dust Bowl” - a series of images on the desertification in China.
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Bravo Benoît Aquin! - Metro Montreal
03/11/2008 – The Prix Pictet 2008, the world's premier photography prize which focuses on sustainability, has been awarded to Montreal photographer Benoit Aquin. A specially commissioned trophy and a CHF 100,000 reward was given to mark this important distinction.
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Fotógrafo canadense ganha prêmio com série sobre água - O Globo, BBC Brasil
03/11/2008 – Canadian photographer receives Prix Pictet, world's premier photography award focusing on sustainability.
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BBC China
03/11/2008 – BBC China
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Banking on Photography - Re: PHOTO
03/11/2008 – This is very much the year of China, so it came as no great surprise to see the winner of the Pix Pictet 2008 was Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin for a series of images, The Chinese ‘Dust Bowl’.
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Sustainability through the Photographer’s Lens - Artevist
03/11/2008 – Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin was named the winner of the Prix Pictet 2008, taking home the grand prize of CHF 100,000 (£50,000) for his Dustbowl Series of photographs, chronicling desertification in China.
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Munem Wasif commissioned to record WaterAid's CHT Project - The Daily Star
02/11/2008 – Kofi Annan, Nobel Laureate and former Secretary General of the United Nations, announced the winners of the inaugural Awards £50,000 Prix Pictet, and £20,000. The winners are Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin and Bangladeshi photographer Munem Wasif. The latter received the award for his record of a WaterAid project in Chittagong Hill Tracts, says a press release.
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Prix Pictet: Beautiful Water Pictures - Water Wired
01/11/2008 – A major new global prize celebrating the work of both professional and amateur photographers has been awarded in Paris.
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Images of China win new photo award - CNN
01/11/2008 – LONDON, England (CNN) -- The inaugural Prix Pictet photography award has been won by Canadian Benoit Aquin for his series of images depicting desertification in China entitled "The Chinese Dust Bowl".
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Art - Pictet Sustainability Photography Prize - Monocle
01/11/2008 – The Prix Pictet aims to
wave a flag of photographic excellence in support of sustainability and its judges have chosen water as the prize's inaugural theme.
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Quebec photographer wins $103,000 prize for picture of Chinese dust bowl - Macro World Investor
01/11/2008 – PARIS, A Montreal photographer has won the inaugural Prix Pictet, which hails excellence in environmental
photography.
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Strife through a lens - Financial Times
01/11/2008 – Jan Dalley wonders what the inaugural Prix Pictet suggests about 21stcentury
sustainability – and the power of the photograph.
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The first Prix Pictet - Financial Times Online
01/11/2008 – What is photography for? Can it change our minds? An exhibition just opened at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, of the 18 photographers shortlisted for the first Prix Pictet, poses these questions loud and clear.
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Quebec photographer wins $103,000 prize for picture of Chinese dust bowl - The Canadian Press
01/11/2008 – PARIS — A Montreal photographer has won the inaugural Prix Pictet, which hails excellence in environmental photography.
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14 voter Benoît Aquin remporte le prix Pictet - Chine Informations
01/11/2008 – A major global prize celebrating photography has been awarded to Benoit Aquin for his series showing the desertification in China.
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Sustainability, & Art ! - AainaA
01/11/2008 – Francis Hodgson, Head of Photographs at Sotheby’s, led the international panel of experts who judged the Prix Pictet and explained that judges were looking for works of outstanding artistic merit that also communicate messages of urgent global significance
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Les finalistes du Prix Pictet
01/11/2008 – The Prix Pictet jury announces the winner for 2008 and awards his images with a specially commissioned trophy and £50,000.
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Canadian Wins World's "Richest Photographic Prize" - Dominion
01/11/2008 – This years Prix Pictet has been won by Montreal born Benoit Aquin.
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Photography: Winning Entries to the Prix Pictet - News Vine
01/11/2008 – A major new global prize celebrating the work of both professional and amateur photographers has been awarded in Paris. The Prix Pictet is the first competition of its type to focus on the global issue of 'sustainability' - and, this year in particular, on water.
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Prix Pictet premier - Pieces at Random
01/11/2008 – Perfect timing, then, to have announced the winner of the new Prix Pictet photography award only two days ago at a Gala Dinner in Paris: with its prime focus on the issue of sustainability, this year’s theme focused on climate change, and more specifically on the current (and future) state of the world’s natural resource of water.
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Audio Slideshow: Photos compete for the Prix Pictet - BBC News
31/10/2008 – Here - the head of the Prix Pictet jury, Francis Hodgson, shows off Aquim's work and images from some of the 17 other photographers who made the shortlist.
View slide show:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7700551.stm
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Chinese images win global prize - BBC News
31/10/2008 – A Canadian photographer has won what is said to be the world's richest photographic prize, the Prix Pictet.
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In pictures - Globe and Mail
31/10/2008 – Montreal-born photographer Benoit Aquin was named the inaugural winner Thursday night of the prestigious Prix Pictet, a $100,000 international photography prize for a series that best deals with issues of sustainability.
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Benoit Aquin wins €50,000 Prix Pictet - British Journal of Photography
31/10/2008 – Photographer Benoit Aquin has won the first Prix Pictet, which comes with a €50,000 cash prize. He was handed out the prize by former United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan at the high-profile ceremony in Paris. BJP was there to report
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Environmental photo award traces China desert - ABC News
31/10/2008 – The inaugural award for environmental photography, the Prix Pictet, has gone to a Canadian for his work documenting China's expanding desert.
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Canadian wins global photography prize - World News
31/10/2008 – A Canadian photographer has won what is said to be the world's richest photographic prize, the Prix Pictet. Benoit Aquin travelled to northern China to record an ecological disaster which is turning 400,000 km square of once-fertile farmland into desert.
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Red rivers and vanishing icebergs: prize images focus on water - Guardian online
31/10/2008 – Eighteen photographers were shortlisted for the inaugural 2008 prize of £50,000, which has a water theme. From a field of 200 photographers from 43 countries, Benoit Aquin was chosen as the winner for his series of photographs on desertification in China
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Winner of Prix Pictet for Sustainable Photography - Tree Hugger
31/10/2008 – You've seen the shortlist for this new global photography prize that focuses on sustainability. The award is sponsored by Pictet & Cie,a Swiss bank, in association with the Financial Times newspaper. Each year a different theme is the focus of the prize; this year's theme is water. The prize is $100,000 and the chance to work on a water-related project.
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Benoit Aquin, lauréat du Prix Pictet 2008 / Remise du prix par Kofi Annan au Palais de Tokyo
31/10/2008 – The first annual photography contest to focus on the most important theme of “sustainability”, awarded Benoit Aquin its grand prize for his series “The Chinese Dustbowl”. The award ceremony for the Prix Pictet was overseen by former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.
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Rencontre avec Munem Wasif, lauréat du Prix Pictet / Live du jeudi 30 octobre 2008 à 19h45 - Photographie
31/10/2008 – Lors de la remise du Prix Pictet 2008 à Benoit Aquin au Palais de Tokyo, Ivan Pictet a annoncé l’attribution d’une commande pour documenter un projet sur l’eau déployé par WaterAid au Bangladesh. Cette commande d’un montant de 25000 euros est octroyée à Munem Wasif l’un des photographes finalistes du Prix, pour suivre le projet «Chittagong Hill Tracts» (le réseau des collines) et qui bénéficie du soutien financier de Pictet & Cie.
Interview with Munem Wasif:
http://www.photographie.com/?pubid=105189&secid=2&rubid=8
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Rencontre avec Benoit Aquin, lauréat du Prix Pictet / Live du jeudi 30 octobre 2008 à 19h30 - Photographie
31/10/2008 – En ce quatrième jour de rencontres dans le cadre du Mois de la Photo, la rédaction du magazine Photographie.com s’est rendue au Palais de Tokyo pour la remise du Prix Pictet (et développement durable). Hervé Le Goff, notre envoyé spécial, a rencontré Benoit Aquin, le lauréat de cette première édition. Benoit Aquin est un photographe canadien, représenté par l’agence Polaris.
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BENOIT AQUIN REMPORTE LE PRIX PICTET 2008 AVEC DES IMAGES DE LA DESERTIFICATION INTITULE “DUST BOWL”CHINOIS - Le Monde
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan, prix Nobel de la paix et ancien secrétaire général des Nations unies, a annoncé au Palais de Tokyo, à Paris, le nomdu lauréat du premier Prix Pictet. Benoit Aquin, obtient ainsi les 62 000€, pour sa série intitulée le «Dust Bowl» chinois. Une commande a également été attribuée à Munem Wassif pourtémoigner de l’évolution d’un projet sur l’eau déployée par WaterAid au Bangladesh.
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Benoit Aquin, premier lauréat du Prix Pictet - Connaissance des Arts
31/10/2008 – Le premier Prix Pictet a été remis hier au Palais de Tokyo par l’ancien secrétaire général de l’ONU, Kofi Annan, au photographe canadien Benoit Aquin pour sa série intitulée le « Dust Bowl » chinois, traitant de la désertification. Le Prix Pictet est le premier prix de photographie consacré au développement durable, le thème de cette première édition tournant autour de l’eau. Parallèlement, le photographe Munem Wassif, l’un des finalistes, a reçu la commande d’un reportage pour suivre le projet « Chittagong Hill Tracks », déployé au Bangladesh par WaterAid.
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Prix Pictet 2008 - Paris Art
31/10/2008 – Fleuves couleur de sang, inondations, tempêtes de sable dans les déserts créés par la main de l'homme... Autant d’images préoccupantes sélectionnées pour le Prix Pictet, premier prix international de la photographie orienté vers le développement durable, avec le choix du thème vital de l'eau pour sa première édition.
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Mit Fotografie die Welt retten
31/10/2008 – Der farblose Himmel hängt tief
über den mageren Schafen. Auf
dem zerfurchten und trockenen
Boden wächst kein Grün. Die
wenigen Sträucher kriechen aus
der zerklüfteten Erde. Es fehlt
Wasser. Die Fotostrecke des Kanadiers
Benoit Aquin vermittelt
roh und direkt, wie Menschen
Umwelt und Natur gebrauchen
und verändern. Die Bilder sind
nicht schön, aber funktionieren
als Schlag in den Bauch.
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Freizeitspaß Klimaerwärmung - Welt Kompakt
31/10/2008 – Ein Spaziergang auf der Eisscholle mit Minirock und Absatzschuhen. Sieht lustig aus, ist es aber nicht. Das Bild steht für die negativen Folgen der Erderwärmung. Fotograf Reza Deghali hat es in die Endrunde des „World’s Premier Photographic Award in Sustainability“ geschafft. Der erste Preis, der die Themen Fotografie und Nachhaltigkeit vereint.
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Unsustainable living - photography prize 2008 - New Scientist
31/10/2008 – The Prix Pictet is an international photography award for remarkable images that focus on sustainability. It launched this year and is presided over by Kofi Annan, Nobel laureate and former Secretary General of the United Nations.
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Nick Higham's BBC News broadcast
31/10/2008 – BBC World Service news broadcast from Palais de Tokyo
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BBC News Broadcast
31/10/2008 – News item from BBC
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Prix Pictet – The World`s Premier Photographic Award in Sustainability - Business Wire
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan, Nobel Laureate and Former Secretary General of the United Nations, tonight announced the winner of the inaugural Prix Pictet as Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
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Water is the theme at inaugural Prix Pictet - first international photography prize to focus on sustainability - World Culture Pictorial
31/10/2008 – What is photography for? Can it change our minds? An exhibition just opened at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, of the 18 photographers short listed for the first Prix Pictet, poses these questions loud and clear.
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The first Prix Pictet - Financial Times
31/10/2008 – What is photography for? Can it change our minds? An exhibition just opened at Paris's Palais de Tokyo, of the 18 photographers shortlisted for the first Prix Pictet, poses these questions loud and clear.
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Benoit Aquin wins the Prix Pictet 2008 - Mike Staines.com
31/10/2008 – Speaking at the opening of the Prix Pictet shortlist exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris on 30 October, Kofi Annan, Nobel Laureate and Former Secretary General of the United Nations, announced the winner of the inaugural Prix Pictet as Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin.
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Prix Pictet - Out of Range
31/10/2008 – Climate Change is the big environmental issue, but what are the effects, here in the UK it’s expected that our climate will become Mediterranean although looking at our last two summers that’s pretty hard to believe.
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Benoit Aquin se mérite le prix Pictet - Pratique Professionnelle
31/10/2008 – Benoit Aquin, photographe montréalais, s'est mérité un prix Pictet à Paris avec son reportage sur les régions sèches en Chine "The Dust Bowl".
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Fotografiepreis "Prix Pictet": Zwischen Flut und Durst - Stern
31/10/2008 – Die Schweizer Privatbank Pictet und die "Financial Times" haben mit dem "Prix Pictet" einen neuen Preis für Fotokunst geschaffen. Sie zeichnen Fotokunst aus, die sich mit Nachhaltigkeit beschäftigt.
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - Wall Street online
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix Pictet Gewinn von EUR 70´000. Der Prix Pictet ist einem der wichtigsten Themen unserer Zeit gewidmet: Nachhaltigkeit. Eine weitere Kommission von EUR 25´000 wurde an Munem Wasif aus Bangladesch vergeben, um das von Pictet & Cie unterstütze Wasser-Projekt in Bangladesch fotografisch zu erfassen. water, ein Buch, das die besten Fotografien des Preises zeigt und auf dem Thema des Prix Pictet basiert, wird weltweit von teNeues publiziert und ist im Handel für EUR 64,00 erhältlich
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - ddp direkt
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix
Pictet Gewinn von EUR 70'000. Der Prix Pictet ist einem der wichtigsten
Themen unserer Zeit gewidmet: Nachhaltigkeit.
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - On Vista
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix Pictet Gewinn von € 70'000.
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - Spiegel
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix Pictet
Gewinn von EUR 70'000. Der Prix Pictet ist einem der wichtigsten Themen unserer
Zeit gewidmet: Nachhaltigkeit. Eine weitere Kommission von EUR 25'000 wurde an
Munem Wasif aus Bangladesch vergeben, um das von Pictet & Cie unterstütze
Wasser-Projekt in Bangladesch fotografisch zu erfassen. water, ein Buch, das
die besten Fotografien des Preises zeigt und auf dem Thema des Prix Pictet
basiert, wird weltweit von teNeues publiziert und ist im Handel für EUR 64,00
erhältlich.
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - Lycos
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix Pictet Gewinn von EUR 70'000.
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - Money Special
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix Pictet
Gewinn von EUR 70'000.
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - Thüringer Allgemeine
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix Pictet Gewinn von EUR 70'000.
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - Flife.de
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix Pictet Gewinn von 70'000.
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - Idowa.de
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix Pictet Gewinn von EUR 70'000.
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Prix Pictet - Der erste weltweite Fotografiepreis in Nachhaltigkeit - PR inside
31/10/2008 – Kofi Annan verleiht dem kanadischen Fotografen Benoit Aquin den Prix Pictet Gewinn von EUR 70'000.
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Deathly Beauty - Image Captures Environmental Damage - Telegraph
31/10/2008 – It resembles an abstract painting by Piet Mondrian. But this image is actually an aerial photograph of a dried up lake bed, and its vivid co.lours are symptoms of the environmental damage caused by man.
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Congratulations to Benoit Aquin on winning the Prix Pictet 2008 - Financial Times
31/10/2008 – The winner of the first Prix Pictet was announced by Kofi Annan at the
Palais de Tokyo in Paris on 30 October 2008 and receives an award
of CHF100,000 (£50,000).
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* AP foreign * , Friday October 31 2008 - Guardian Online
31/10/2008 – Quebec photographer wins $103,000 prize for picture of Chinese dust bowl Full Story
PARIS - A Montreal photographer has won the inaugural Prix Pictet, which hails excellence in environmental photography.
Benoit Aquin took home about C$103,000 after the ceremony Thursday night in Paris.
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Benoît Aquin remporte le prix Pictet - Cyberpresse
31/10/2008 – Le photographe Benoît Aquin a remporté hier soir le prix Pictet, présenté à Paris par le secrétaire général de l'ONU, Kofi Annan. En plus du prestige, le Montréalais repart avec la plus grosse bourse offerte pour un prix de photographie.
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Kofi Annan entrega prémio de fotografia sobre a sustentabilidade a Benoit Aquin - Publico
31/10/2008 – O Prémio Nobel da Paz e antigo secretário-geral das Nações Unidas Kofi Annan entregou ontem à noite no Palais de Tokyo, em Paris, o Prémio Pictet ao fotógrafo canadiano Benoit Aquin, que concorreu com a série "The Chinese Dust Bowl". O Prémio Pictet é o único galardão mundial de fotografia centrado na sustentabilidade. A água foi o tema escolhido para a edição inaugural. A bolsa atribuída é de 50 mil libras (cerca de 60 mil euros).
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Première édition du Prix Pictet - ViteVu
31/10/2008 – L’exposition offre ainsi l’occasion de faire le point sur les différents langages, signes et usages, du paysage en photographie, qui s’édifie et se construit sur les mutations de notre environnement urbain.
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Un photographe québécois gagne 103 000$ en prix pour une photo - La Presse Canadienne
31/10/2008 – PARIS — Un photographe originaire de Montréal a remporté le Prix Picter, qui souligne l'excellence des photographes oeuvrant pour la cause environnementale.
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Montreal-born photographer Benoit Aquin wins $100K prize - Topix
31/10/2008 – Benoit Aquin's Chinese Dust Bowl images, including this untitled photo, won him the inaugural Prix Pictet for environmental photography.
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Quebec photographer wins $103,000 prize for picture of Chinese dust bowl - Yahoo News
31/10/2008 – A Montreal photographer has won the inaugural Prix Pictet, which hails excellence in environmental photography.
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Kofi Annan announces award for Prix Pictet. Bangladeshi photographer Munem Wasif receives commission - Shahidu News
31/10/2008 – Ivan Pictet, speaking at the award ceremony, announced that Munem Wasif, one of the photographers shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, will be awarded the commission to document WaterAid’s Chittagong Hill Tracts Project in Bangladesh which is supported by Pictet & Cie. The main award which includes a €50,000 cash prize was given to photographer Benoit Aquin. He was handed out the prize by former United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan at the high-profile ceremony in Paris.
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The Prix Pictet - Miami Art Exchange
31/10/2008 – A major new global prize celebrating the work of both professional and amateur photographers has been awarded in Paris.
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Environmental photo award traces China desert - Arts and Entertainment News, ABC
31/10/2008 – The inaugural award for environmental photography, the Prix Pictet, has gone to a Canadian for his work documenting China's expanding desert.
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Pictet lance son prix - La Tribune
31/10/2008 – LES PRIX se suivent
et ne se ressemblent
heureusement pas.
Ainsi,
la banque
privée suisse Pictet & Cie
a-telle choisi de s' intéresser aux
travaux dédiés au
développement durable en décernant
chaque année un prix doté de
100.000 francs suisses
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Quebec photographer wins $103,000 prize for picture of Chinese dust bowl - The Record
31/10/2008 – PARIS - A Montreal photographer has won the inaugural Prix Pictet, which hails excellence in environmental photography.
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Montreal-born photographer Benoit Aquin wins $100K prize - AOL Canada
31/10/2008 – Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin has won the inaugural edition of an international prize celebrating excellence in environmental photography.
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The Prix Pictet won by Benoît Aquin - Ministère des Relations internationales Quebec
31/10/2008 – Former Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan, has just awarded the Prix Pictet to Québec photographer Benoît Aquin.
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Quebec photographer wins $103,000 prize for picture of Chinese dust bowl - Canada East
31/10/2008 – PARIS - A Montreal photographer has won the inaugural Prix Pictet, which hails excellence in environmental photography.
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Quebec photographer wins $103,000 prize for picture of Chinese dust bowl - 660 News Calgary
31/10/2008 – PARIS - A Montreal photographer has won the inaugural Prix Pictet, which hails excellence in environmental photography.
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BBC World Service News Bulletin
30/10/2008 – One of the most valuable prizes for photography in the world has been won by a Canadian, Benoit Aquin. The Prix Pictet, named after the swiss bank which funds it, is in its first year, and aims to highlight issues of environmental sustainability. Its hopes to do this with both the nearly 90,000 dollars in prize money and a world tour of the shortlisted photographs.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7701187.stm
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Reflections in the waters of life - Times Online, Joanna Pitman
27/10/2008 – The biggst and most ambitious new arts prize for a long time will hold its first awards ceremony on Thursday at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Different from others in that it contains a campaigning element, the Prix Pictet, a £50,000 photography prize, is sponsored by a Swiss bank and dedicated to environmental sustainability. The work of the 18 shortlisted photographers will, when exhibited and presented together, produce an emphatic message.
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What makes a green photograph? - BBC Radio 3
27/10/2008 – Sotheby’s Francis Hodgson and the Guardian’s former picture editor, Eamonn McCabe discuss what makes a “green” photo. Quite timely when you think that in just a few days Kofi Annan will be awarding fifty thousand pounds to the winner of the world’s first international prize for photography with a focus on sustainability.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f4s6h
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Art not crisis - Weekend People - Financial Times
25/10/2008 – Art took over as a subject of conversation from the markets turmoil for an evening as collectors Iranian-born Fatim and Eskander Maleki opened their extraordinary home and collection to more than 200 guests.
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L'eau, cet élément vital si rare - Private Banking
01/10/2008 – The biggest names in contemporary photography figure in the shortlist for the Prix Pictet, a major new global prize in photography that focuses on sustainability, with Water as theme for 2008. The award is sponsored by Pictet & Cie, in association with the Financial Times and will reward the winner with a £50,000 prize. The exhibition of the shortlisted artists and awards ceremony will be held in October 2008 in Paris. The exhibition will then tour around the world.
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Prix Pictet 2008 Award - Darius Himes
22/09/2008 – I received an email announcement today from David Maisel, a fantastic photographer who has published several monographs with Nazraeli Press and Chronicle Books, stating that he had just been shortlisted for the Prix Pictet. In my head, I said, “the what?” This is what I found...
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News - Awards and Prizes - Pluk Magazine
22/09/2008 – The winner of the first Prix Pictet for the image or body of photographic work that makes the most outstanding contribution to the communication and understanding of global sustainability issues, will be announced in October 2008.
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Prix Pictet competition, environmental photography - APUG
22/09/2008 – Analogue Photography Users Group Blog
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Arts and Ecology - RSA Listings
22/09/2008 – The Prix Pictet is a new global prize in photography that focuses on the issue of sustainability.
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Prix Pictet Sustainability Photo Award: Water - PSFK
15/09/2008 – The shortlist of photographers for this years Prix Pictet award have been posted. This years theme was water and photographers were challenged to capture it’s abundance or lack of. The goal of the competition is to use photography to bring the message of sustainability to a global audience and mobilise public opinion for change.
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Prix Pictet Photo Prize - Don't Panic Online
09/09/2008 – Water is the most basic element necessary for life. Without it we have no hope. The Prix Pictet photographic competitions has set h2o as the theme for their 2008 photographic competition on sustainability, for which 18 photographers have been selected. We have chosen a few here that demonstrate the despair and hope that the stuff falling out of your tap can bring.
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Quando la Finanza Sposa L'Ambiente - Italia Il Mondo
05/09/2008 – Pictet article in Milan edition of Italia Il Mondo
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Green giants - British Journal of Photography
03/09/2008 – The Prix Pictet is one of the largest and most lucrative awards in photography but,
fi nds Diane Smyth, its biggest success is in proving that images can communicate.
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My Best Shot - The Guardian
31/08/2008 – Edward Burtynsky's Best Shot
'It's an amazing image: a beautiful sky and a toxic pond reflecting it'
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Vicki Ambery-Smith commissioned by Prix Pictet
26/08/2008 – Jeweller, Silversmith Vicky Ambery-Smith has been commissioned to provide a presentation piece as part of the forthcoming Prix Pictet photography award.
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The Prix Pictet - IF Green
11/08/2008 – Shortlisted artists.
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All set for Prix Pictet - British Journal of Photography
23/07/2008 – More than 200 photographers from 43 countries entered the competition, but only 18 were shortlisted.
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Prix Pictet 2008 - Photography Grants and Awards
22/07/2008 – Photography Grants and Awards Blog, with a focus on fine art and documentary photography.
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Water Stories - Preview
22/07/2008 – In the first of a future series of photographic competitions on this topic, seven judges have shortlisted 18 photographers whose images tell a story about the vitality of water.
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Photographer + Camera = Sustainability? - Howethical.com
18/07/2008 – The above equation isn’t one which will resonate with most folk. However, the people at Prix Pictet (a major new global prize in photography that focuses on sustainability) have created such a link.
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Can a photograph help sustain the planet? - Lens Culture
18/07/2008 – The 2008 Prix Pictet Award in Photography is a major new global prize in photography that "focuses on perhaps the greatest single issue of the twenty-first century: sustainability."
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Les photographes peuvent-ils sauver la planète? - DD Magazine
18/07/2008 – En attirant l’œil du photographe sur le changement climatique, le Prix Pictet veut encourager le débat public autour des enjeux mondiaux actuels.
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Benoît Aquin en lice pour le prix Pictet - Cyber Presse
18/07/2008 – Il s'agit du seul Québécois à se retrouver sur la liste. Le gagnant de ce concours, organisé par le Financial Times et la banque suisse Pictet reçoit 100 000 $, la plus grosse bourse de photo-journalisme au monde.
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New picture prize puts climate crisis in the frame - Reuters
15/07/2008 – Images of droughts, floods and water destruction captured by some of the world's top photographers are competing for the first international award for photography focusing on sustainability.
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Quality of sustainability photos impresses judges - The Architects Website
15/07/2008 – The shortlisted images for the £50,000 Prix Pictet photography prize for sustainability deliver a haunting view of climate change.
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Bærekraftig fotopris - Fotopia
15/07/2008 – 18 fotografer kjemper om en nyopprettet internasjonal fotopris med temaet bærekraft, verdt en halv millioner kroner. Du kan være med å bestemme hvem som vinner. Se kandidatene og bildene deres her.
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prix pictet raises awareness through photopraphy - Design Boom
15/07/2008 – While most photography competition only aim to award the most talented artists, the prix pictet also tries to raise awareness.
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New Prize for Photos Showing Sustainability - Tree Hugger
15/07/2008 – A hearty welcome to the Prix Pictet; a new global photography prize that focuses on sustainability.
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Red Rivers and Vanishing Icebergs: Prize Images Focus on Water - Guardian Online
14/07/2008 – Blood-coloured rivers, dust storms from manmade deserts and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are among some of the shortlisted images for the for the inaugural Prix Pictet photography prize, an international award which focuses on sustainability.
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New Prize Honors Urgent Environmental Photography
14/07/2008 – The Prix Pictet is a heck of a photography prize. In its first year, the award promises a purse of 100,000 Swiss francs to the winner, and for all shortlisted photographers, an exhibition at the Palais de Toyko in Paris. The prize is for work that communicates urgent messages about sustainability, what the Prix Pictet website calls “perhaps the greatest single issue of the twenty-first century.” Indeed.
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Prix Pictet, primer premio de fotografía centrado en sostenibilidad - Serresponsable
14/07/2008 – El premio, que está presidido por Kofi Annan, ex secretario general de la ONU, contará con la participación de 200 fotógrafos de 43 países en esta primera edición, cuyo tema central es el agua.
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Shortlist for £50,000 award announced - British Journal of Photography Online
14/07/2008 – The Prix Pictet is the first international award for photography focusing on sustainability. For its inaugural edition, the theme was water. The award is presided over by former secretary general of the United Nations Kofi Annan, and aims at using the power of photography to convey sustainability messages to a global audience.
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The Prix Pictet Shortlist: Top photographers compete for the first global photographic award focusing on sustainability - Optimistworld.com
14/07/2008 – “Can a photograph help sustain the planet? It depends on the photograph.” These are bold words splashed on Prix Pictet homepage – the world’s premier photographic award in sustainability.
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El agua es la vida - Finanzas.com
14/07/2008 – A major global prize celebrating photography will be awarded in Paris by Kofi Annan. The Prix Pictet is the first competition of its type to focus on the global issue of ’sustainability’ and the power of photography to communicate important messages.
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The Image of the Week - The Times - The Knowledge
12/07/2008 – David Maisel's 'The Lake Project 18' is featured as Image of the Week.
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Prix Pictet photography competition shortlist announced - Telegraph Online
12/07/2008 – More that 200 photographers from 43 countries entered the Prix Pictet competition and 18 have made it through to the final.
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Return to the Source - FT.com
12/07/2008 – The Prix Pictet is a new global photography prize created to draw attention to the issue of sustainability. Its first year takes the theme of water, a precious commodity, too often polluted, too often out of reach. Francis Hodgson, chairman of the Pictet jury, discusses the importance of photography, and takes us through a selection of this year's shortlisted entrants.
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Canadians on Prix Pictet photography shortlist - CBC News
12/07/2008 – Three Canadians have been shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Pictet, a new international photographic competition focusing on the environment and sustainability.
Benoit Aquin, Edward Burtynsky and Robert Polidori are among the 18 named Saturday, chosen from 200 photographers from 49 countries.
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Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlist Announced - Lightstalkers
11/07/2008 – The Independent Jury of the Prix Pictet is delighted to announce the 2008 Shortlist. From an exceptional field of over 200 photographers from 43 countries, the judges have shortlisted 18 photographers who have produced works that are of outstanding artistic merit and communicate messages of urgent global significance.
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Society London - Prix Pictet Launch - Canvas Magazine
29/04/2008 – Photographs from the Prix Pictet Launch.
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Exhibition Guide Prix Pictet 2008
16/04/2008 – A guide to the artists and material presented at Palais de Tokyo is now available.
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