7 daysA week in photography £35, gestalten, hardcover, 128 pages, ISBN: 9783967040852
THE PRIX Pictet is the leading global award in photography and sustainability and was launched in 2008, with the annual winner taking home a whopping 100,000 Swiss Francs (£87,000).
Several books have been published since the award’s inauguration, with this one focusing on the work of the many female photographers who have been nominated since its inception.
This book features 64 women, including well-known names such as Alice Mann, Mandy Barker, Alex Prager, Diana Markosian, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Chloe Dewe Mathews and Vanessa Winship. The winner of the 2021 prize, Sally Mann, also contributes an essay where she says, ‘the photographer’s job is to synthesize, to make strong and poetic work from daily life’.
It is with this kind…