Prix Pictet

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A light greenish-blue hardcover book titled human in white lowercase letters. The cover features a black and white photograph of a young person in a floral dress, sitting against a cracked wall while looking at their reflection in a small, hand-held mirror.

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An open book displays a two-page article titled The Victor Hugo de nos jours, featuring a conversation with photographer Sebastião Salgado. The spread is laid out with text and several of Salgado's black-and-white photographs of people in Ethiopia and indigenous people in Brazil.

A black-and-white photograph spread across two pages of an open book. In a snowy landscape, a person in a heavy winter coat uses a rope and a long pole to handle a reindeer that is leaping high into the air. A large herd of reindeer and a line of sparse trees are visible in the background under a dark sky.

An open photobook displays a two-page spread showing an extremely crowded sea under an overcast sky. Hundreds of people are packed into the water, many using colorful inflatable rings, while a single person parasails high above the crowd.

An open photobook spread on a white background. The left page displays a portrait of a person wearing a patterned brown cloak and a vibrant red mask that covers their face, standing by the sea. The right page shows a landscape photo of a bright red road snaking through rocky hills, with descriptive text underneath.

A minimalist table of contents page from a book, with the title Contents in a serif font centered at the top. The list of sections, including Foreword, Introduction, Essays, and Photographs, is right-aligned on the page with ample white space on the left.

A page from a book with the heading Introduction for the Prix Pictet photography prize. On the left is a grid of eleven photographs, each labeled with a theme: water, earth, growth, power, consumption, disorder, space, hope, fire, and human. On the right is a column of text providing an introduction to the prize, written by the Executive Director.

A woman wearing a sheer, long-sleeved shirt with the Mona Lisa printed on it sits on a grey corduroy couch, looking directly at the camera. She is breastfeeding a baby in a white onesie and a single white sneaker who rests in her lap. The woman has long brown hair and visible tattoos on her arms and legs.

An open book spread displays two contrasting photographs. On the left, a woman in a red apron stands in a diner with red walls and tables. On the right, a small child in a full white astronaut suit and helmet sits alone on the teal seats of an empty bus.

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A two-page photo spread. On the left, a derelict room with peeling walls has its floor covered in a garden of colorful flowers. On the right, a man sits inside a tiny red plastic playhouse in a backyard, working on his laptop while a dog walks nearby.

A high-angle photograph of a person with dark skin sitting in a folding chair on a dark sandy beach. They wear a pink patterned bikini and their body is liberally covered in a thick white foamy substance. Next to the chair on the sand is a crumpled yellow towel with a black-and-white graphic of the Christ the Redeemer statue.

A two-page magazine spread. The left page shows a large, torn, black-and-white poster of a man's face, with a vertical tear revealing a gold layer beneath. The right page features a color photograph of a group of eagle hunters on horseback in a vast, arid landscape, each holding a large eagle.

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A candid color photograph of three young Asian women in a cramped, dimly lit room. In the foreground, a woman in a white tank top rests with her eyes closed in a wooden chair. Behind her, another woman in a pink patterned top reaches for an electrical outlet, while a third woman with her back to the camera sits at a small table.

Prix Pictet

Human

€ 50.00

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Edited by: Prix Pictet, Isabelle von Ribbentrop

September 2023, 144 Pages, 100 Photos

Hardcover

240mm x 296mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5561-0

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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The breadth of the human experience

We quite rightly celebrate human creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, but too often our triumphs in science, engineering and technology come at monumental cost. The human story is more often a tale of conflict and despair than of nurture, love, and coexistence. It would be easy to read the human story as one of tragic hubris. Yet it does not end here. We stand on the threshold of the future wondering which way the dice will fall. Our wager with posterity is that human ingenuity, intelligence, and resilience of spirit are powerful enough to insist upon a very different future for the human story. Prix Pictet. Human features over 100 outstanding works of contemporary photography by many of the world's most acclaimed photographers.

The PRIX PICTET aims to harness the power of photography to draw global attention to issues of sustainability, especially those concerning the environment. Founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, the Prix Pictet has become the world's leading award for photography and sustainability. To date, there have been ten cycles of the award, each with its own specific theme.

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