Power Commission

Prix Pictet Commission 2012, Simon Norfolk

With each Prix Pictet award, Pictet supports a charity whose work reflects the theme of the prize. Simon Norfolk will visit Afghanistan with the support of Medair’s Afghan and international staff working on the ground.

Active in Afghanistan since 1996, Medair helps communities survive such disasters as droughts, floods and landslides, but stays to teach and implement Disaster Risk Reduction strategies, such as flood prevention infrastructure, so that communities have the power to protect themselves from subsequent threats.

The photographs produced for the Commission were previewed at Les Rencontres d’Arles in July 2013 and a video slideshow was also shown at Somerset House, London, as part of The Commissions exhibtions in October 2013.

Prix Pictet Commission 2012, Simon Norfolk

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Edmund Clark, Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out, 2009

Carl De Keyzer, Moments Before the Flood, 2009-2011

Rena Effendi, Still Life in the Zone, 2010

Jacqueline Hassink, Arab Domains, 2005-2006

An-My Lê, 29 Palms, 2003

Joel Sternfeld, When it Changed, 2005

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