Video: The impact of globalization on life. Photo works for the Prix Pictet 2011 competition
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Globalization and urbanization walk the planet. And where only yesterday there was a small village, today there is already a metropolis with a million inhabitants. It is these global changes, not always positive, and is dedicated to photo competition Prix Pictet 2011.
In 2008, the Swiss bank Pictet & Cie established an award of 100 thousand Swiss francs (approximately 105 thousand US dollars) for photographers and photo artists dealing with social and environmental problems of our time in their work. Former UN Secretary General Kofi Anan became the honorary president of the fund created for the competition.
The aim of the competition, according to Anan, is to emphasize the true beauty of the planet Earth and, thereby, to show the damage that Humanity causes to its habitat. Perhaps this is to make people think about changing the path that Civilization is currently taking. After all, this is the path of self-destruction.
The main theme of the Prix Pictet 2011 competition was the impact of globalization and urbanization on human everyday life (after all, not only pizza is a symbol of globalization). Therefore, in the works submitted for the award this year, one can see absolutely incredible and unthinkable, but very vivid, manifestations of these phenomena. For example, an ideal courtyard of an ideal private house, located a few hundred meters from a coal-fired power plant, a highway with a multi-level interchange, pierced through quarters of a private sector in the suburbs of a metropolis, or a dead seagull, in which through a half-rotted body you can see a stomach filled with human garbage …
An exhibition of the best works presented at the Prix Pictet 2011 will be held from March 17 to April 16 at the Parisian gallery Passage de Retz. And by the end of it, an authoritative jury consisting of directors of art galleries and museums, journalists and critics will announce the winner of this year's Pictet & Cie Bank Award.
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