The prestigious Prix Pictet is on display in Turin, featuring the best of sustainable photography

The Italian exhibition of the Prix Pictet, a prestigious international photography award dedicated to the theme of sustainability, is scheduled from May 23 to August 26, 2018. As the official venue for the exhibition, which is titled Prix Pictet. Space and showcases the winning works selected by the Prix Pictet, the CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia space in Turin has been chosen. The prize, now in its seventh year, was founded in 2008 by Banque Pictet, a Geneva-based institution, in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: the goal is to use the power of photography to communicate messages about sustainability to a global audience.

The Turin space will thus feature the work of the 12 finalist photographers: Mandy Barker (UK), Saskia Groneberg (Germany), Beate Gütschow (Germany), Rinko Kawauchi (Japan), Benny Lam (Hong Kong), Richard Mosse (Ireland), Munem Wasif (Bangladesh), Sohei Nishino (Japan), Sergey Ponomarev (Russia), Thomas Ruff (Germany), Michael Wolf (Germany), and Pavel Wolberg (Russia). The winner of the seventh edition was Richard Mosse with his Heat Maps series, which, with a military thermal camera capable of detecting the presence of the human body over thirty kilometers away, documented the situation of migrants in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

“After the great success of the major exhibition dedicated to Carlo Mollino,” said CAMERA President Emanuele Chieli, “the new exhibition represents a further demonstration of the centrality gained by CAMERA, even in the international exhibition scene, just two and a half years after its inauguration. The opportunity to present at CAMERA the finalist works of the prestigious Prix Pictet is for us a source of pride in the awareness of the prestige and great cultural and social value of the initiative, which has always been very attentive to the theme of sustainability.”

“CAMERA’s group exhibitions,” recalls the space’s director, Walter Guadagnini, on the other hand, “always combine the quality of the images on display with the ability to recount crucial moments in society: in this case it is precisely the world around us that is the protagonist, it is the most flagrant current events that are proposed to the public through the particular gaze of some of the major photographers active worldwide today.”

The exhibition opens daily, except Tuesdays, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Thursdays until 9 p.m.). Last admission 30 minutes before closing. Tickets: full 10 euros, concessions 6 euros (under 26, over 70, TCI members, Friends of the Foundation for Architecture, members of the Order of Architects, AIACE members, Enjoy members, Slow Food members, members of Centro Congressi Unione Industriale Torino, MenoUnoPiuSei Card holders, ticket holders of Gallerie d’Italy, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, MAO, Palazzo Madama, Borgo Medievale, GAM - Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Forte di Bard, MEF - Museo Ettore Fico, FIAF). Free for children under 12, Abbonamento Musei Torino Piemonte or Torino+Piemonte Card holders, disabled with accompanying person. For info visit www.camera.to.

Image: Sergey Ponomarev, Migrants arrive by a Turkish boat near the village of Skala, on the Greek island of Lesbos. Monday, November 16, 2015. Series: Europe Migration Crisis, 2015. © Sergey Ponomarev, Prix Pictet 2017

The prestigious Prix Pictet is on display in Turin, featuring the best of sustainable photography

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