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Prix Pictet
The Prix Pictet (Pictet prize) is an international award in photography. It was founded in 2008 by the Geneva-based Pictet Group with the mandate to use the power of photography to communicate messages about sustainability to a global audience. Its goal is to uncover photography of the highest order, applied to current social and environmental challenges. The prize is judged by an independent jury and carries a prize of CHF 100,000. Process Entry to the Prix Pictet is by nomination.John Vidal,The strength of the Prix Pictet is in danger of becoming watered down, ''The Guardian'', 24 October 2012. Accessed 1 June 2014. As of May 2019, there were over 300 Prix Pictet nominators, a group of industry experts from around the world consisting of photographers, gallerists, agency heads, academics, authors, publishers, curators, photography foundation and others. Each nominated photographer is asked to submit a series of up to ten images, coherently defined and focused on the theme of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby, and mass communication. Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. With an electronic image sensor, this produces an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result with photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically "developed" into a visible image, either negative or positive, depending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Joshua Cooper
Thomas Joshua Cooper (born December 19, 1946) is an American photographer. He is considered among the premier contemporary landscape photographers.Everett, Deborah (2008) "Thomas Joshua Cooper (b. 1946), Cherokee Photographer" pp. 27-29 ''In'' Everett, Deborah and Zorn, Elayne (2008) ''Encyclopedia of Native American Artists'' Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, page 27, Early life and education Cooper studied art, philosophy and literature and received his bachelor’s degree from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California in 1969. In 1972, he received his master’s of art in photography with honors from the University of New Mexico."Thomas Joshua Cooper" John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation biography Inspiration Cooper was inspired by the works of the photog ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Almond
Darren James Almond (born August 1971, Appley Bridge, Lancashire) is an English artist, based in London. He was nominated for the 2005 Turner Prize. Life and career Almond graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1993, with a BA (hons) degree in Fine Arts. He works in a variety of media including photography and film, which he uses to explore the effects of time on the individual.Turner Prize 2005 tate.org.uk; accessed 9 December 2016. He uses "sculpture, film and photography to produce work that harnesses the symbolic and emotional potential of objects, places and situations, producing works which have universal as well as personal resonances". In 1995, Almond had his first solo exhibition in London, showing a single work, ''KN120'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander HonFRPS (born 1 December 1961) is a London-based photographer, artist and director, known for his portraiture and landscapes. Kander has produced a number of books and had his work exhibited widely. He received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society in 2015, and won the Prix Pictet award. Life and work Kander was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. His father flew Boeing 707s for El-Al but lost his eye and was unable to continue flying. His parents decided to start again in South Africa and moved to Johannesburg in 1963. Kander began taking pictures when he was 13 on a Pentax camera, which he bought with his Bar Mitzvah money. He states the pictures that he took then and until he was 17, although unaccomplished, have the same sense of quiet and unease that is part of his work today. After being drafted into the South African Air Force, Kander worked in a darkroom printing aerial photographs. It was there he became certain he wanted to be a photogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munem Wasif
Munem Wasif ( bn, মুনেম ওয়াসিফ) (born 11 April 1983) is a photographer from Bangladesh. Biography Munem Wasif is a documentary photographer in Bangladesh. He has been represented by Agence Vu since 2008, and is now teaching documentary photography at Pathshala South Asian Media Academy. He was selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in 2007. In 2008, he won the City of Perpignan Young Reporter's Award at Visa pour l'image. That year, he also won the International Award for concerned photography, the F25 for under-25's in the Fabrica awards. The following year, he was awarded the Prix Pictet commission for his work on the water crisis of the north-west region of Bangladesh. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Musée de l'Élysée, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, the International Photography Biennial of the Islamic World in Iran, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan, the Kunsthal Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Signer
Roman Signer (born 1938 in Appenzell, Switzerland) is principally a visual artist who works in sculpture, art installations photography, and video. Early life and career Born in Appenzell, Switzerland, Signer started his career as an artist later in life at the age of 28, after working as an architect’s draughtsman, a radio engineer apprentice, and a short stint in a pressure cooker factory. He holds degrees from arts institutions in Switzerland and Poland. He studied at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich and Lucerne between 1966 and 1971. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland from 1971-1972. Work Signer's work has grown out of, and has affinities with both land art and performance art, but they are not typically representative of either category. It is often being described as following the tradition of the Swiss engineer-artist, such as Jean Tinguely and Peter Fischli & David Weiss. Signer’s "action sculptures" involve setting up, carrying out, and rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Polidori
Robert Polidori (born February 10, 1951) is a Canadian-American photographer known for his large-scale color images of architecture, urban environments and interiors. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Martin-Gropius-Bau museum (Berlin), and Instituto Moreira Salles (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro)."Robert Polidori CV." ''RobertPolidori.com''Web./ref> His photographs are also included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), New Orleans Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Château de Versailles, Centre Pompidou (Paris), and Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), as well as many private collections. Described as one of "most esteemed practitioners of large-scale photography,"Wallis, Stephen. "Edward Burtynsky and Robert Polidori’s Shared Visions." ''Wall Street Journal: WSJ. Magazine'', 12 Sep. 2016Web./ref> Polidori ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Mattingly
Mary Mattingly (born September 8, 1978) is an American visual artist living and working in New York City. She was born in Rockville, Connecticut in 1978. She has studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon in 2002. She is the recipient of a Yale University School of Art Fellowship, and was a resident at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center from 2011 to 2012. Work Mattingly explores the themes of home, travel, cartography, and humans' relationships with each other, with the environment, with machines, and with corporate and political entities. She has been recognized for creating photographs and sculptures depicting and representing futuristic and obscure landscapes, for making wearable sculpture, "wearable homes," and for her ecological installations, including the Waterpod (2009). Wearable Home (2004–06) In this expansive series of photographs, Mattingly portrays sce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Maisel (visual Artist)
David Maisel (born 1961) is an American photographer and visual artist whose works explore vestiges and remnants of civilizations both past and present. His work has been the subject of five major monographs, published by Nazraeli Press, Chronicle Books, and Steidl. Maisel was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts in 2018 and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1990.https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1990.pdf His work is exhibited internationally and is collected in major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Education Maisel earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1984 where he studied with Emmet Gowin. He attended the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2006 where he worked with Larry Sultan. Photographic work ''Black Maps'' ''Black Maps'' is a mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Jordan (artist)
Chris Jordan (born 1963) is an American artist, photographer and film producer based in Seattle, Washington. Works Many of Jordan's works are created from photographs of garbage and mass consumption, a serendipitous technique which started when he visited an industrial yard to look at patterns of color and order. Jordan uses everyday commonalities such as a plastic cup and defines the blind unawareness involved in American consumerism. His work, while often unsettling, is a message about unconscious behaviors in our everyday lives, leaving it to the viewer to draw conclusions about the inevitable consequences which will arise from our habits. Jordan's work can be grouped in the following series: * ''Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption'' (2003–2006) – A series of large format photographs depicting the magnitude of America's waste and consumption. * ''In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster'' (2005) – A series of photographs t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Derges
Susan Derges (born 1955) is a British photographic artist living and working in Devon. She specialises in Photogram, camera-less photographic processes, most often working with natural landscapes. She has exhibited extensively in Europe, America and Japan and her works are in several important museum collections. Derges' work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has received an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society. Biography Derges was born in London in 1955. Having studied basic theoretical physics, she draws playfully on certain scientific theories in her artworks, such as the notion that in physics the observer's decision affects what is observed. She began her artistic career as a painter working in London and Berlin in the 1970s, studying painting at the Chelsea College of Art and Design from 1973 to 1976 and at the Slade School of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Deghati
Reza Deghati (born July 26, 1952) is an Iranian-French photojournalist who works under the name Reza ( fa, رضا). Early life Reza was born in Tabriz, Iran. He is of Azerbaijani origin.French photojournalist of Iranian origin, Reza Deghati He has worked internationally for . Several films about Reza's work have been produced by National Geographic Television, most notably Frontline Diaries which won an in 2002. In 2003, Reza served as C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
