"Prix Pictet. Hope" Automatic translate
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From February 14 to March 13, 2020, the Muravyev-Apostolov Museum-Estate will host an exhibition of 12 finalist photographers as part of the eighth International Photography Competition Prix Pictet. The theme of the current award cycle is “Hope”. The world-famous Prix Pictet Prize is awarded for outstanding works of photo art that draw the attention of the world community to the most important social and environmental issues that pose a threat to humanity.
The prize fund of Prix Pictet is 100 thousand Swiss francs and is awarded for a series of works that most clearly and distinctively reveal the declared theme.
In 2018-2019 Prix Pictet nominees from around the world nominated more than 600 candidates for the contest, who in turn sent over 4,800 photographs. The shortlist of 12 finalists presented at the exhibition “Prix Pictet. Hope". Participants: Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh), Joana Chomali (Cote d’Ivoire), Margaret Courtney-Clark (Namibia), Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan), Lucas Folla (USA), Janel Lynch (USA), Ross McDonnell (Ireland), Gideon Mendel (South Africa), Ivor Prikett (Ireland), Robin Road (South Africa), Avoisk van der Molen (Netherlands), Alexia Webster (South Africa). The winner of the Hope cycle was announced at the awards ceremony held in London in November 2019. The Prix Pictet Award was presented to Joan Chomali, a photographer from Côte d’Ivoire, for his series of works Ça va aller (“Everything will be fine”). It includes pictures of the city of Gran Basam in Côte d’Ivoire, taken three weeks after the terrorist attack on a local beach on March 13, 2016. The winner was determined by an independent jury led by the chairman of the expert council, Sir David King, who called the artist’s series of works “unique and distinctive meditation on the ability of the human spirit to defend the right to hope and overcome difficulties even in the most tragic circumstances.”
The Prix Pictet Award was founded by the Pictet Group in 2008, and today is considered the leading international award in the field of photography. The full exhibition cycle of the prize takes 18 months and is dedicated to a specific topic, reflecting the environmental and social challenges of our time and capable of provoking an active discussion in society of problems in the field of sustainable development. Themes of the previous seasons: “Water”, “Earth”, “Growth”, “Power”, “Consumption”, “Disorder”, “Space”. The main goal of the competition is to attract public attention to global environmental and social problems.
In a statement on behalf of the jury, its chairman Sir David King, in particular, noted: “We were inspired by the honorary president of the prize of the recently departed Kofi Annan, who in his welcoming speech at the last Prix Pictet ceremony spoke about the ability of mankind to draw hope in disasters and trials, and his ineradicable belief that it is not too late to stop the catastrophic damage that we have done to wildlife and its most vulnerable inhabitants. Let’s not deceive ourselves and admit that over the past two years the crisis has only deepened. Nevertheless, hope remains, even though it is ghostly and fragile. The work of the shortlisted photographers once again underscores the great hope reflected in the Prix Pictet contest - a bet that we all conclude with the future that art can inspire action and victory when words are simply powerless. ”
Following the results of the Prix Pictet contest, teNeues publishes a book / catalog with detailed documentation of all the works of the finalists. In addition, the publication includes illustrations of the work of other nominees and articles by leading experts on the topic of this competition. In November 2019, Prix Pictet launched the first ever podcast series called Prix Pictet: A Look at Sustainability.
After completing the first exhibition of this season, which was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the work of the finalists went on a world tour. Photos have already visited Tokyo and Zurich, and after Moscow they will go to New York, Lausanne, Dublin and other cities.
- “Salt to the Sea” by Ruta Sepetys
- “Leaving Time” by Jodi Picoult
- “Forge” by Laurie Halse Anderson
- “Gideon’s Trumpet” by Anthony Lewis