A shortlist of 12 including three London-based photographers has been announced for the sixth Prix Pictet, the international photography prize founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group.
The award aims to provoke discussion and debate around issues of sustainability with this year’s award addressing the theme of ‘disorder’.
Operating on an 18-month cycle which sees exhibitions in Paris, Rome and Geneva, the photographer whose work is thought to best address the theme will win prize money of 100,000 Swiss francs (£67,000).
The winner will be announced by honorary president Kofi Annan on 12 November 2015, marking the opening of the Paris show at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
The jury of nine for this year’s award includes: Professor Sir David King, UK foreign secretary’s special representative for climate change; Martin Barnes, senior curator, photographs, Victoria & Albert Museum; Edward Burtynsky, photographer; Emmanuelle de L’Ecotais, curator of photography, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Elisabeth Sussman, Sondra Gilman Curator Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
The shortlisted photographers for the sixth Prix Pictet are:
Ilit Azoulay, born Jaffa 1972, lives and works Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel;
Valérie Belin, born Boulogne-Billancourt 1964, lives and works Paris, France;
Matthew Brandt, born Los Angeles 1982, lives and works Los Angeles, USA;
Maxim Dondyuk, born Polyan’ 1983, lives and works Nova Kabovka, Ukraine; Alixandra Fazzina, born London 1974, lives and works London, UK;
Ori Gersht, born Tel Aviv 1967, lives and works London, UK;
John Gossage, born New York 1946, lives and works Washington DC, USA;
Pieter Hugo, born Johannesburg 1976, lives and works Cape Town, South Africa;
Gideon Mendel, born Johannesburg 1959, lives and works London, UK;
Sophie Ristelhueber, born Paris 1949, lives and works Paris, France;
Brent Stirton, born Durban 1969, lives and works New York, USA;
Yang Yongliang, born Shanghai 1980, lives and works Shanghai, China.
