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A new major exhibition, Prix Pictet: Fire<\/em>, presenting work by 13 international photographers\u00a0will open at the Victoria and Albert Museum this December.<\/h2>\n
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Twelve series of powerful photographs by 13 international photographers exploring the topical theme of \u2018fire\u2019 will be presented in the exhibition Prix Pictet<\/em>: Fire<\/em><\/strong> at the V&A<\/a>, London, 16 December 2021 \u2013 9 January 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The exhibition will showcase the world-class photography shortlisted for this year\u2019s prestigious Prix Pictet<\/a>, the global award with a unique commitment to promoting discussion and debate on issues of sustainability and the environment.<\/p>\n

The bodies of work shortlisted for the prize draw their inspiration from both major global events and personal experiences. The photographic images span documentary, portraiture, landscape, collage and studies of light and process. The shortlisted photographers are based in five continents across the world.<\/p>\n

The exhibition features established names such as Sally Mann, who documented the vast wildfires and thick smoke that consumed the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia during her visit in 2008, and Rinko Kawauchi, who photographed firework displays throughout Japan every summer from 1997-2001.<\/p>\n

They are joined by young and emerging names in photography, including David Uzochukwu, whose portraiture series In The Wake<\/em> is set within an unknown landscape on fire, and Fabrice Monteiro, whose series The Prophecy<\/em> addresses worldwide pollution through staged photographs of figures in costumes made of trash and natural materials.<\/p>\n

The award of 100,000 Swiss Francs (USD108,000, \u20ac91,000) will be announced on Wednesday 15 December 2021<\/strong>. We share the shortlisted photographers below.<\/p>\n

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Joana\u00a0Hadjithomas\u00a0and Khalil\u00a0Joreige\u00a0(Lebanon)<\/h3>\n

Series:\u00a0Wonder Beirut<\/em>, 1998-2006<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, WONDER BEIRUT, The story of a Pyromaniac Photographer, 1998-2006. From the series: Wonder Beirut \u00a9 Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are known for their long-term research projects based on personal or political documents, with a focus on secret histories, such as the disappearances during the Lebanese Civil War and a forgotten space project from the 1960s. Their artworks create thematic and formal links between photography, video, performance, installation and cinema.<\/p>\n

They are held in major private and public collections and have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in institutions around the world, such as Jeu de Paume (Paris), Guggenheim (New York), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), MOMA (New York), Red Brick Art Museum (Beijing), Tate Modern (London). Together, they have directed numerous films shown in major international festivals.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, WONDER BEIRUT, The story of a Pyromaniac Photographer, 1998-2006. From the series: Wonder Beirut \u00a9 Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Wonder Beirut<\/em>\u00a0is an ongoing project based on a series of postcards from the 1960s and 1970s which are still on sale in Lebanese bookshops today, even though the places they depict were destroyed or altered in the bombardments or in subsequent reconstruction programmes. The artists created a fictional character: photographer Abdallah Farah who supposedly took photographs that were used to produce these postcards \u2013 and then burned them himself to record the impact of street battles during the Lebanese civil wars.<\/p>\n

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Rinko Kawauchi\u00a0(Japan)<\/h3>\n

Series:\u00a0Hanabi<\/em>, 2001<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Rinko Kawauchi, Untitled, 2001. From the series: Hanabi, 2001 \u00a9 Rinko Kawauchi, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Rinko Kawauchi was born in 1972 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, and now lives and works in Tokyo. In 2001, she simultaneously released a series of three photographic books published by Little More, and in 2002 she was awarded the prestigious 27th Kimura Ihei Award. Other awards include the eminent Infinity Award by the International Center of Photography in 2009, the 63rd Ministry of Cultural Affairs Newcomer of the Year award in 2012, and the 29th Shashin no Machi Higashigawa Native Japanese Artist Award in 2012.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Rinko Kawauchi, Untitled, 2001. From the series: Hanabi, 2001 \u00a9 Rinko Kawauchi, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Kawauchi has exhibited in a multitude of group and solo exhibitions both within Japan and all over the world. Solo exhibitions include: Foundation Cartier pour l\u2019art Contemporain, Paris (2005); The Photographers\u2019 Gallery, London (2006); Hasselblad Centre, Go\u0308teborg, Sweden (2007); Semear at Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2007); and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (2012).<\/p>\n

Between 1997 and 2001, when Kawauchi was living alone in Tokyo and in the process of making her earliest works, she photographed fireworks every summer.\u00a0Hanabi\u00a0<\/em>is a collection of photographs representing this body of work.<\/p>\n

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Sally Mann\u00a0(USA)<\/h3>\n

Series:\u00a0Blackwater<\/em>, 2008-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Sally Mann, Blackwater 13, 2008-2012. From the series: Blackwater, 2008-2012 \u00a9 Sally Mann, Gagosian, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Sally Mann is known for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting. Born in Lexington, Virginia, Mann began studying photography in the 1960s, attending Ansel Adams Gallery\u2019s workshops in Yosemite National Park, and Putney School and Bennington College, both in Vermont.<\/p>\n

She received a BA from Hollins College, Virginia, as well as an MA in creative writing. A Thousand Crossings, Mann\u2019s recent exhibition, explores the identity of the American South and Mann\u2019s relationship with her place of origin. It debuted at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC in 2018 and travelled extensively.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Sally Mann, Blackwater 3, 2008-2012. From the series: Blackwater, 2008-2012 \u00a9 Sally Mann, Gagosian, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

In 2001, Mann was named \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Photographer\u201d by Time magazine. Mann\u2019s Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (Little, Brown, 2015) received critical acclaim; it was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Awards and won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.<\/p>\n

For her series\u00a0Blackwater<\/em>, Mann explored the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia, documenting the vast fires and thick smoke that consumed the swap during her visit and which seemed to epitomise the great fire of racial strife in America.<\/p>\n

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Christian Marclay (USA\/ Switzerland, based in UK)<\/h3>\n

Series: Fire<\/em>, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Christian Marclay, Untitled (Burning I), 2020. Image still from the series: Fire, 2020 \u00a9 Christian Marclay, Fraenkel Gallery, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Christian Marclay studied at the Ecole Supe\u0301rieure d\u2019Art Visuel in Geneva from 1975\u20131977 and the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston from 1977\u20131980. Marclay’s work has been shown in museums and galleries internationally, most recently in the major solo exhibition \u201cCompositions\u201d at Museu d\u2019Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2019).<\/p>\n

Other exhibitions have been held at Kunsthaus, Zurich (1997), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2001), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010), Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2015) and Sapporo Art Museum (2017). Marclay received the Golden Lion award for best artist at the 54th Venice Biennale for his 24-hour virtuosic video piece, The Clock, which was first shown at White Cube in London in 2010.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Christian Marclay, Fire, 2020. Video still from the series: Fire, 2020 \u00a9 Christian Marclay, Fraenkel Gallery, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Fire<\/em> is a series of photographic prints that began as small-scale collages featuring fragments from comic books, movie stills and images found on the internet. Fire<\/em>, 2020, is a video animation made from paper cut-outs from comic book illustrations of fire. More than 1,500 photographs shown in rapid succession suggest a flip book, creating the illusion of a flickering fire.<\/p>\n

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Fabrice Monteiro\u00a0(Belgium\/Benin)<\/h3>\n

Series: The Prophecy<\/em>, 2013 – 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fabrice Monteiro is an Agouda, the descendant of Brazilian slaves with Portuguese names. He was born in Belgium, grew up in Benin, and now lives and works in Dakar, Senegal. Monteiro worked as a model for around a decade before becoming a photographer in 2007. Fabrice Monteiro\u2019s images are at the intersection between photojournalism and fashion photography.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Fabrice Monteiro, Untitled#11, 2016. From the series: The Prophecy, 2013 \u2013 2020 \u00a9 Fabrice Monteiro, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

His series The Prophecy<\/em> began in 2013 when Monteiro returned to Africa after several years and discovered that devastating pollution had overtaken the continent. The series was based on nine environmental problems in Senegal, including forest fires, plastic waste and oil spills, and was gradually expanded to address worldwide pollution.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Fabrice Monteiro, Untitled#9, 2015. From the series: The Prophecy, 2013 \u2013 2020 \u00a9 Fabrice Monteiro, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

This theme is personified in the photos of various figures who were inspired by West African masquerades and animism. The beautiful and distressing figures were created in collaboration with the Senegalese fashion designer Doulsy, who devised couture-like costumes made of trash and natural materials.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Oppenheim\u00a0(USA)<\/h3>\n

Series:\u00a0Stilleben<\/em>,\u00a02021<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Lisa Oppenheim, Pendant (1943\/2021), 2021. From the series: Stilleben, 2021 \u00a9 Lisa Oppenheim, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Lisa Oppenheim received a BA in Art and Semiotics from Brown University in 1998 and an MFA in Film\/Video from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2002. Oppenheim\u2019s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n

Her work is held in major museum collections such as the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, among others.<\/p>\n

In 2014, she won both the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography awarded by the Israel Museum and the The Aimia | AGO Photography Prize awarded by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Solo exhibitions have been held at MOCA Cleveland and the MCA Denver in 2017; The FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, France in 2015; the Kunstverein in Hamburg in 2014 and the Grazer Kunstverein in 2013.<\/p>\n

In Oppenheim\u2019s series\u00a0Stilleben<\/em>, the presence of fire is indicated by smoke even if it remains unseen. Using found images in newspapers or the internet, Oppenheim \u2018reprocesses\u2019 the photographs in the darkroom, using the light of a match to expose the negative.<\/p>\n

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Mak\u00a0Remissa\u00a0(Cambodia)<\/h3>\n

Series: Left 3 Days<\/em>, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Mak Remissa, My grandmother assisted her sick husband to walk, 2014. From the series: Left 3 Days, 2014 \u00a9 Mak Remissa, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Mak Remissa is regarded as one of the most successful Khmer photographers of his generation. In 1995, he graduated in Fine Art and Photography at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. He credits his first and third place awards in the 1997 National Photojournalism competition as a major catalyst in his career.<\/p>\n

Currently working as a photojournalist for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), his work is often seen on the international news wires. His 2005 fine art photography exhibition, titled \u201cThe fish eats the ant\u201d, was shown in Phnom Penh galleries, the Angkor Photo Festival in Kobe, Japan, in 2013, and GETXOPHOTO festival 2014 in Bilbao, Spain. Remissa has exhibited his fine art photography in Cambodia, France, Canada, US, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, China, Japan, Singapore, and Myanmar.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Mak Remissa, Khmer Khmer Rouge soldiers took control Phnom Penh capital city, 2014. From the series: Left 3 Days, 2014 \u00a9 Mak Remissa, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Left 3 Days<\/em> recalls Remissa\u2019s memories from his childhood during the Cambodian genocide, particularly on 17 April 1975 when Khmer Rouge troops took control and occupied Phnom Penh.<\/p>\n

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Carla Rippey\u00a0(Mexico)<\/h3>\n

Series: Immolation<\/em>, 2009-2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Carla Rippey, Fashion, 2019. From the series: Immolation, 2009-2019 \u00a9 Carla Rippey, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Carla Rippey is an American artist based in Mexico City. Her work seeks to expand the margins of drawing and graphics. She works extensively from her collection of archives (images from photographs, postcards, family albums, newspapers, magazines, books and internet sources), which she translates into drawings, artist\u2019s books and prints.<\/p>\n

She was educated in Nebraska, La Sorbonne in Paris, The State University of New York and the University of Chile in Santiago. Rippey\u2019s solo shows include the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, The National University Museum “El Chopo”, the National Print Museum, the galleries Arte Mexicano and Arro\u0301niz Arte Contempora\u0301neo in Mexico City, as well as the Graphics Institute of Oaxaca, Seguela Gallery in Guangzhou, China, and the Mavi Museum in Santiago, Chile.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Carla Rippey, Fire, 2010. From the series: Immolation, 2009-2019 \u00a9 Carla Rippey, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Her series Immolation <\/em>began in 2010 with a series of artist\u2019s books made from images of fire collected in magazines, newspapers and the internet: juxtaposing images of volcanoes and people set on fire (lynchings in Mexico), throwing fire (Palestinians) or people setting themselves on fire in acts of desperation. To make the collages, Rippey transfers photocopies to Japanese papers using solvent and an etching press.<\/p>\n

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Mark Ruwedel\u00a0(USA)<\/h3>\n

Series: LA Fires<\/em>, 2017-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Mark Ruwedel, San Gabriel Fire #5, 2020. From the series: LA Fires, 2017 -2020 \u00a9 Mark Ruwedel, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Mark Ruwedel was born in Pennsylvania in 1954 and lives in Long Beach, California. He received his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983 and taught there from 1984 to 2001. He is currently Professor Emeritus at California State University. In 2014 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Scotiabank Photography Award, and was short-listed for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize in 2019.<\/p>\n

Ruwedel is represented in museums throughout the world, including the J. Paul Getty Museum; Los Angeles County Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Yale Art Gallery; National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Canada; Stichting Foundation, Brussels; Maison europ\u00e9enne de la photographie, Paris; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Mark Ruwedel, La Tuna Canyon Fire\/Beekeeper, 2017. From the series: LA Fires, 2017 -2020 \u00a9 Mark Ruwedel, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Ruwedel\u2019s work was the subject of an Artists Room at Tate Modern in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include: Large Glass, London, 2020-21; California Historical Society, San Francisco, 2019; Museum of Art and Culture of Marrakech, Morocco, 2018; and Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA, 2018.<\/p>\n

LA Fires <\/em>is a series of photographs selected from Ruwedel\u2019s four-part, in-progress project titled \u201cLos Angeles: Landscapes of Four Ecologies\u201d. The photographs document the La Tuna fire in 2017, which is considered to be the largest in the history of the city.<\/p>\n

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Brent\u00a0Stirton\u00a0(South Africa)<\/h3>\n

Series: Burns Capital Of The World<\/em>, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Brent Stirton, 2013. From the series: Burns Capital Of The World, 2013 \u00a9 Brent Stirton, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Brent Stirton is a special correspondent for Getty Images and regular contributor to National Geographic magazine. Stirton specialises in documentary work, generally photographing at the intersection of man and the environment. He regularly works for Human Rights Watch, The Environment Investigation Agency and LAGA, as well as the Gates and Clinton Foundations and various UN groups.<\/p>\n

He has received many awards, including the Overseas Press Club, The National Magazine Awards, The Peabody awards, Pictures of the Year International as well multiple awards from the World Press Photo Foundation. His photos have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Le Figaro and GQ amongst others.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Brent Stirton, 2013. From the series: Burns Capital Of The World, 2013 \u00a9 Brent Stirton, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Burns Capital Of The World <\/em>documents young victims recovering from severe burns in India. Despite over six million people being burnt every year, India has very few burns facilities at clinics and hospitals and the best of these are very expensive.<\/p>\n

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David\u00a0Uzochukwu (Austria\/Nigeria)<\/h3>\n

Series: I<\/em>n The Wake<\/em>, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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David Uzochukwu, Wildfire, 2015. From the series: In The Wake, 2020 \u00a9 David Uzochukwu, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

David Uzochukwu is an Austrian and Nigerian artist. Growing up in Luxembourg and Belgium, Uzochukwu delved into self-portraiture at age thirteen, and began developing a largely digital practice. This led to vivid collaborations with artists FKA twigs and Iris van Herpen, and a commission for the World Wildlife Fund.<\/p>\n\t\t

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David Uzochukwu, Tectonic Shift, 2020. From the series: In The Wake, 2020 \u00a9 David Uzochukwu, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Their self-portrait series A FAMILIAR RUIN was included in group show Dey Your Lane! at Bozar (2016). Further exhibitions include Photo Vogue Festival (2018, 2019) and The New Black Vanguard at Rencontres d\u2019Arles (2021). Uzochukwu was nominated for an ICP Infinity Award in 2019 and named \u2018One to Watch\u2019 by British Journal of Photography the following year. Uzochukwu\u2019s first short film, GO\u0308TTERDA\u0308MMERUNG, premiered at Max-Ophu\u0308ls-Preis in 2021.<\/p>\n

In The Wake is a series of portraits set within a landscape on fire. With all historic and geographic markers removed from each image, the bodies in the photographs are submerged into the landscape and removed from the confines of their social reality.<\/p>\n

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Daisuke Yokota\u00a0(Japan)<\/h3>\n

Series: Matter \/ Burn Out<\/em>, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t

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Daisuke Yokota, Untitled, 2016. From the series: Matter \/ Burn Out, 2016 \u00a9 Daisuke Yokota, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Daisuke Yokota was born in Saitama prefecture in 1983. Awards include the Grand Prix at the 2nd<\/sup> \u201c1_WALL\u201d Photography Competition in 2010, the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2016 and the 45th<\/sup> Kimura Ihei Photography Award in 2019. He has published numerous photography collections including MATTER\/BURN OUT, VERTIGO, and Tarachine. His major exhibitions include Site\/Cloud at Foam photography museum (2014) and Shape of Light at Tate Modern (2018).<\/p>\n\t\t

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Daisuke Yokota, Untitled, 2016. From the series: Matter \/ Burn Out, 2016 \u00a9 Daisuke Yokota, Prix Pictet<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Matter \/ Burn Out<\/em> documents the burning of Yokota\u2019s large-scale installation of photographic prints, titled \u2018Matter\u2019, at Aichi Triennial held in August 2016. This \u2018burn out\u2019 process was documented in 4,000 photographs, whereby the data was processed, manipulated and revived to form the new work titled Matter \/ Burn Out<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The Jury for the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet is:<\/h3>\n

Sir David King,<\/strong>\u00a0FRS (Chair), Founder and Chair, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge; Duncan Forbes,\u00a0<\/strong>Head of Photography, V&A;\u00a0Emma Bowkett,\u00a0<\/strong>Director of Photography, FT Weekend\u00a0<\/strong>Magazine; Professor Herminia Ibarra,\u00a0<\/strong>Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School; Jeff Rosenheim,\u00a0<\/strong>Joyce Frank Curator in Charge, Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;\u00a0Joana Choumali,\u00a0<\/strong>Winner Prix Pictet \u2018Hope\u2019 (2019); Philippe Bertherat,\u00a0<\/strong>President, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; Shahira Fahmy,\u00a0<\/strong>founder and Principal, Shahira Fahmy Architects, Cairo.<\/p>\n

About Prix Pictet<\/h3>\n

The Prix Pictet award was founded by the Pictet Group in 2008. Today, it is recognised as the world\u2019s leading prize for photography. Each cycle of the Prix Pictet tours the world, with exhibitions in over a dozen countries annually, bringing the work of the shortlisted photographers to a wide international audience.<\/p>\n

The Prix Pictet is also published in book form, with extensive documentation of the work of each of the shortlisted photographers together with images from the wider group of nominees and essays by leading writers on the theme of the prize.<\/p>\n

The eight previous Prix Pictet winners are Beno\u00eet Aquin (Water), Nadav Kander (Earth), Mitch Epstein (Growth), Luc Delahaye (Power), Michael Schmidt (Consumption), Val\u00e9rie Belin (Disorder), Richard Mosse (Space) and Joana Choumali (Hope).<\/p>\n

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Further reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tributes paid to Prix Pictet winner Michael Schmidt<\/a><\/p>\n

Best photography competitions to enter in 2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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