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Prix Pictet announces the Theme of eleventh cycle at Les Rencontres d’Arles
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Jul 16, 2024
The Prix Pictet makes many of its most significant announcements during the opening week of Les Rencontres d’Arles.Tonight, ahead of a special presentation at the Théâtre Antique of the work of Gauri Gill, the tenth Prix Pictet laureate, Prix Pictet Executive Director Isabelle von Ribbentrop announced that the theme for the eleventh cycle is Storm.
She commented on the new theme: ‘Storm is increasingly the default setting for our lives. We seem to be perpetually balanced on the edge of some momentous event. It is as if the next environmental, medical, social, or political calamity is mere moments away. Of course, Storm is the dramatic expression of nature’s wild side, yet it is also the defining characteristic of our age. We are constantly reminded that the precious ecosystems of our fragile planet are under threat as never before. At the same time our social and political systems are fracturing – in the famously prophetic words of WB Yeats, “the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”. Against all this there are ripples of discontent that could still turn into a storm powerful enough to provoke the kinds of change necessary to save us all.’
Over the coming months, Prix Pictet’s global network of over 300 nominators will identify portfolios of work aligning with the eleventh theme. The award’s independent jury will review these portfolios. The shortlist will be announced at Les Rencontres d’Arles in July 2025, and the eleventh laureate will be announced at the opening of the award exhibition in London in September 2025.
The global award for photography and sustainabilityFounded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, the Prix Pictet has become the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability.
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