Prix Pictet

The global award in photography and sustainability

Water

Water Shortlist

Benoit Aquin Winner
Series: The Chinese Dust Bowl
2006, Xilinhot City, Inner Mongolia, China
Water Shortlist

Edward Burtynsky
Series: Oil Fields
2007, Fort McMurray, Alberta
Water Shortlist

Jesús Abad Colorado
Series: Memory, Place and Displacement
2001, Department of Putumayo, Colombia
Water Shortlist

Thomas Joshua Cooper
Series: The World’s Edge
2004, Near the West-most point of Norway
Water Shortlist

Sebastian Copeland
Series: Antarctica: The Global Warning
2006
Water Shortlist

Christian Cravo
Series: Waters of Hope, Rivers of Tears
2002, Haiti
Water Shortlist

Lynn Davis
Series: Ice 1988-2007
2000, Greenland
Water Shortlist

Reza Deghati
Series: War and Peace
1997, Baku, Azerbaijan
Water Shortlist

Susan Derges
Series: The Observer and the Observed
1991, UK
Water Shortlist

Malcolm Hutcheson
Series: Lahore’s Waste Water Problem
2008, Lahore, Pakistan
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Chris Jordan
Series: In Katrina’s Wake
2005, Ninth Ward neighborhood, New Orleans
Water Shortlist

Carl De Keyzer
Series: Moments Before the Flood
2007, Blankenberge, Belgium
Water Shortlist

David Maisel
Series: The Lake Project
2002, Owens Lake, California, USA
Water Shortlist

Mary Mattingly
Series: Nomadographies
2007, Death Valley, California, USA
Water Shortlist

Robert Polidori
Series: After the Flood
2005, New Orleans
Water Shortlist

Roman Signer
1994, Iceland
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Jules Spinatsch
Series: Snow Management
2005, Davos, Switzerland
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Munem Wasif Commission
Series: A Tale of Paradise Lost
2007, Chilmari, Kurigram, Bangladesh

About Water

The theme of the inaugural Prix Pictet was Water. It is, after all, through water that we are able to see the earliest and most devastating manifestations of climate change: threats to our food supply, to our health, to fragile ecosystems, to the ground on which we live and even to our peace and security.

Over 200 photographers from 43 countries were nominated for the first Prix Pictet, and such was the power of the work submitted that the jury decided to shortlist 18 artists.

Kofi Annan, the Honorary President of the Prix Pictet, awarded the prize to the Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin at the opening of the shortlist exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Munem Wasif was invited to complete the Water Commission by visiting the Satkhira region of southwest Bangladesh, where the Pictet Group were supporting the work of the UK based charity, WaterAid.