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Venues announced for Prix Pictet <i>Disorder</i> global tour

Venues announced for Prix Pictet Disorder global tour

The first venues to host the exhibition for the sixth cycle of the Prix Pictet have now been announced. The Prix Pictet Finalists’ Exhibition opened at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in November, where the winner was announced as French photographer Valérie Belin. The exhibition is currently on …
Valérie Belin announced as winner of Sixth Prix Pictet

Valérie Belin announced as winner of Sixth Prix Pictet

Valérie Belin has been announced as the winner of the Sixth Prix Pictet. The announcement was made during a ceremony at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris by Kofi Annan, Honorary President of the Prix Pictet. The CHF100,000 (£65,000) prize has been awarded to Valérie Belin for her series Still …
Tomoko Kikuchi wins first Prix Pictet Japan Award

Tomoko Kikuchi wins first Prix Pictet Japan Award

Tomoko Kikuchi has been announced as winner of the first Prix Pictet Japan photography prize. She was chosen for her striking series The River. The prize of ¥3,000,000 was made possible following a grant from a Swiss Japanese cultural foundation, given in order to inaugurate a special award in recognition of …
Shortlist announced for Prix Pictet Disorder

Shortlist announced for Prix Pictet Disorder

Last night at a screening at Les Rencontres d’Arles, the Prix Pictet Chairman, Stephen Barber, announced the shortlist for the sixth Prix Pictet. The shortlist features work by 12 artists from 7 countries on 4 continents. In making their selection, the independent jury, chaired by Sir David King, praised the …
Prix Pictet Consumption nominated for Deutsche Fotobuchpreis 2015

Prix Pictet Consumption nominated for Deutsche Fotobuchpreis 2015

Prix Pictet Consumption has been nominated for the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis 2015. The publication which features the work of the eleven shortlisted artists, alongside other commended work from the theme of Consumption, will be shown amongst the other nominated books and the winners at various exhibitions, nationally and internationally. An estimated 450,000 people visit the exhibitions of …
Jury announced for Sixth Cycle, <em>Disorder</em>

Jury announced for Sixth Cycle, Disorder

For the new cycle four new jurors will join the judging panel. They include the distinguished environmental photographer and 2009 TED Prize laureate Edward Burtynsky, and Nili Goren, Photography Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum. Emmanuelle de L’Ecotais, Curator of Photography at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris …
Prix Pictet Exhibition Visitor Statistics

Prix Pictet Exhibition Visitor Statistics

With the opening of the Consumption exhibition at Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City, news arrives that over 100,000 people have visited the various Prix Pictet exhibitions in the last six months. The Consumption tour began at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum where 17,990 people visited the exhibition during its short run. …
Disorder unveiled as Sixth Prix Pictet theme

Disorder unveiled as Sixth Prix Pictet theme

The theme of the sixth cycle is Disorder. The announcement was made at a Reception at the Musée d’Art Moderne de La Ville in Paris, during the annual Paris Photo photography fair. Stephen Barber, Chairman, Prix Pictet, commenting on the choice of the theme of Disorder, said: “The eternal struggle between order …
Fifth Commission awarded to Colombian photographer Juan Fernando Herrán

Fifth Commission awarded to Colombian photographer Juan Fernando Herrán

Colombian photographer Juan Fernando Herrán has been selected by the partners of the Pictet Group for the fifth Prix Pictet Commission, with the theme of Consumption. The Prix Pictet Commission will enable Herrán to produce a series of photographs that will examine material culture and consumption in indigenous communities in …
A Prix Pictet Retrospective in Arles

A Prix Pictet Retrospective in Arles

The Prix Pictet was invited to host a special event at this years Rencontres d’Arles, which contained the work of the four previous laureates of the award – Benoit Aquin (Prix Pictet Water), Nadav Kander (Prix Pictet Earth), and Mitch Epstein (Prix Pictet Growth) and Luc Delahaye (Prix Pictet Power). The work will be displayed at Magasin Électrique, Parc …
Michael Schmidt dies in Berlin

Michael Schmidt dies in Berlin

It was with immense sadness that we learned of the death of Michael Schmidt on Saturday 24 May.  Three days previously Michael was awarded the fifth Prix Pictet for Lebensmittel, his monumental exploration of the food industry. This was the first major international award for a photographer described by the …
Kofi Annan announces Michael Schmidt as winner of fifth Prix Pictet

Kofi Annan announces Michael Schmidt as winner of fifth Prix Pictet

Michael Schmidt was announced as the winner of the fifth Prix Pictet photography prize, selected from a shortlist of eleven.  The winner was chosen for his monumental work Lebensmittel (food stuff) made between 2006 and 2010.  The prize, with a value of 100,000 Swiss Francs (USD$112,500, GBP£66,800, EUR€82,000), is sponsored by …
Prix Pictet Consumption Tour

Prix Pictet Consumption Tour

After the announcement of the winner at the V&A in London on 21 May 2014, the Prix Pictet Consumption will embark on an international tour of exhibitions. The first exhibition will take place at the prestigious Palau Robert of Barcelona. Palau Robert, originally conceived as a private residence, dates from …
Consumption shortlist announced

Consumption shortlist announced

The announcement for the shortlist for Prix Pictet Consumption has been made. At a ceremony at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, 11 artists have been selected. They are;  Adam Bartos (United States), Motoyuki Daifu (Japan), Rineke Dijkstra (Netherlands), Hong Hao (China), Mishka Henner (Belgium), Juan Fernando Herrán (Colombia), Boris Mikhailov (Ukraine), Abraham …
Consumption Shortlist Announcement

Consumption Shortlist Announcement

The shortlist for Prix Pictet Consumption will be announced at a special screening event at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris on 13 November 2013. The announcement will coincide with the opening of Paris Photo. In Arles, in July 2013, Prix Pictet announced an historic partnership with the Victoria and Albert …

Consumption and the V&A

The theme of the fifth cycle of the Prix Pictet is Consumption. The announcement was made at Les Rencontres d’Arles on Thursday 4 July. The award ceremony and finalists’ exhibition will take place at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in May 2014. At the same time it was announced that the sixth …
Prix Pictet at Les Rencontres d’Arles

Prix Pictet at Les Rencontres d’Arles

The first public preview of the images that Simon Norfolk, winner of the fourth Prix Pictet Commission, has made in Afghanistan was the centrepiece of a special evening screening at the Théâtre Antique in Arles. This presentation coincided with the announcement of the theme, Consumption, and Jury for the fifth Cycle …
From Amsterdam to Arles and on…

From Amsterdam to Arles and on…

With the Power exhibition running at Huis Marseilles, Amsterdam until 16 June the Prix Pictet is gearing up for a busy summer with openings to come at the Beirut Exhibition Center in June, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography in July and Westbau, Löwenbräu Art Complex Zurich in September. In addition, there  will be an …
Prix Pictet featured in Swiss publication L’Hebdo

Prix Pictet featured in Swiss publication L’Hebdo

Prix Pictet Power was featured in the Swiss Newspaper L’Hebdo, in an article which contained a commentary on their preferred works from the shortlist. Click the link below to view the full article. [download id=”144″]
Evening Standard gives Prix Pictet 5 Star Review

Evening Standard gives Prix Pictet 5 Star Review

The Evening Standard gave the Prix Pictet launch a glowing review in an edition published last week. Stating that the work was of an ‘astonishingly high standard’ and commenting that the 12 photographers of the shortlist serve as a ‘reminder of the continuing significance of documentary photographers worldwide’. The show …