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Prix Pictet Human opens at the V&A.

The Prix Pictet is the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. It was founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group with the goal of harnessing the power of photography to draw global attention to the critical issue of global sustainability. To date, there have been ten cycles of the award, each with its own theme highlighting a particular facet of sustainability.

In their own unique way, each of the shortlisted photographers explore our shared humanity and the vast spectrum of our interactions with the world. The shortlisted portfolios span documentary, portraiture, landscape, and studies of light and process and explore issues ranging from the plight of indigenous peoples, conflict, childhood, the collapse of economic processes, to the traces of human habitation and industrial development, gang violence, border lands, and migration. Taken together their work is, broadly, a commentary on our role as stewards of the planet.
Exhibition open until 22 October.

Prix Pictet is produced by Candlestar.

Image credit: David Levene.