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Prix Pictet: Human

17 January - 9 March

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The Prix Pictet is the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability and will present its Human cycle in a comprehensive exhibition featuring 12 leading shortlisted photographers at Fotografiska Shanghai from 17 January to 9 March 2025. 

The Prix Pictet was founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group with the goal of harnessing the power of photography to draw attention to the critical issue of global sustainability. To date, there have been ten cycles of the award, each with its own theme highlighting a particular facet of sustainability.

The nine themes are: Water, Earth, Growth, Power, Consumption, Disorder, Space, Hope and Fire.

The Human Exhibition at Fotografiska

Following the successful exhibition in Beijing this May, the Prix Pictet is delighted to present a full-scale exhibition of its Human cycle at Fotografiska Shanghai, returning to the city after showcasing its Hope exhibition in 2021. The exhibition at Fotografiska Shanghai will showcase the work of twelve outstanding photographers shortlisted for the tenth cycle of the award. Each of their series constitutes a powerful exploration of the various facets of the theme Human. In their own unique way, each photographer explores our shared humanity and the vast spectrum of our interactions with the world. 

The shortlisted portfolios span documentary, portraiture, landscape, and studies of light and process, and explore issues ranging from the plight of indigenous peoples, conflict, childhood, the collapse of economic processes, to the traces of human habitation and industrial development, gang violence, border lands, and migration. 

The shortlisted photographers are:

Hoda Afshar, Iran

Gera Artemova, Ukraine

Ragnar Axelsson, Iceland

Alessandro Cinque, Italy/Peru

Siân Davey, UK

Gauri GillIndia

Michał Łuczak, Poland

Yael Martínez, Mexico

Richard Renaldi, US

Federico Ríos Escobar, Colombia

Vanessa Winship, UK/Bulgaria

Vasantha Yogananthan, France