The first in the series of Whitechapel/Prix Pictet Conversations on Photography took place at the Whitechapel Gallery in London on 7 July 2011. This inaugural discussion featured shortlisted artist Thomas Struth and the distinguished designer and academic, Professor Nana Last. The conversation place against the backdrop of Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978 – 2010 a major exhibition of Struth’s work that opened at the Whitechapel, earlier that week.