The Prix Pictet is the world’s first major prize dedicated to photography and sustainability. The prize was founded in 2008 by the Geneva based private bank, Pictet & Cie and developed with the Financial Times. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate vital messages to a global audience. This is art of the highest order, applied to confront the pressing environmental and social challenges of the new millennium.
For the third Prix Pictet, the theme of the award is Growth. At once a blessing and a curse, growth, in all its forms presents one of the great conundrums facing humanity in the twenty-first century, from the dizzying expansion of our cities with their ever increasing consumption of natural resources to the relentless growth of population and the need to feed ourselves.
The Prix Pictet is the world’s first major prize dedicated to photography and sustainability. The prize was founded in 2008 by the Geneva based private bank, Pictet & Cie and developed with the Financial Times. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate vital messages to a global audience. This is art of the highest order, applied to confront the pressing environmental and social challenges of the new millennium.
For the third Prix Pictet, the theme of the award is Growth. At once a blessing and a curse, growth, in all its forms presents one of the great conundrums facing humanity in the twenty-first century, from the dizzying expansion of our cities with their ever increasing consumption of natural resources to the relentless growth of population and the need to feed ourselves.