Wednesday 7 October 2009

Last night I attended the preview of the Prix Pictet 2009 and launch of the book – Earth

The exhibition included shortlisted work by twelve of the world’s leading photographers, one of whom will receive this year’s prestigious Prix Pictet photography prize for environmental sustainability.

The Prix Pictet is an annual search for photographs that communicate powerful messages of global environmental significance under a broad theme. This year that theme is ‘earth’.

Photographers short listed for the £60,000 prize are Darren Almond, Christopher Anderson, Sammy Baloji, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Abbas Kowsari, Yao Lu, Edgar Martins and Chris Steele-Perkins.

It is an amazing exhibition and do try and catch it if you can - Purdy Hicks Gallery, London from 5 to 10 October.

Below are some of my favorite pictures;


© Darren Almond’s
Fullmoon@The Sea of Clouds



© Nadav Kander
Mouth I (Wusongkou, Where River Meets Sea), Shanghai

© Yao Lu
Smoke-like Clouds at Zhongshan


© Edgar Martin
Untitled, from the series 'The Diminishing Present'