Nominations

Richard Fischer was nominated for the Prix Pictet Third Cycle launched at Les Rencontres d’ Arles, 2010.

Francis Hodgson, photography advisor and critic of the London based Financial Times, also former head of Photographs at Sotheby's, London nominated Richard with his floral art work. A specialist in photography of many years standing, Francis Hodgson is unusual in having worked at a senior level both in the cultural and in the commercial aspects of photography.

Launched in 2008 by the Geneva-based private bank Picket & Cie, the Prix Pictet has rapidly established itself as the world’s leading prize in photography and sustainability. It has a unique vital mandate to use the power of photography to communicate vital messages to a global audience. The goal is to uncover art of the highest order, applied to confront the pressing social and environmental challenges of the new millennium.

The prize currently plays to a global audience of over 400 million. The exhibitions of photographs shortlisted for the cycles of the Prix Pictet have toured the world, so far they have been shown in Paris, Thessaloniki, Dubai, Hong Kong, Eindhoven, Dresden, Bonn, London, Berlin, Lausanne, Geneva, Dublin and Moscow. Further exhibitions are planned.

Together these photographs by the artists shortlisted for the Prix Pictet highlight the beauty of the earth we share. But they also expose the damage, deliberately or carelessly, we are inflicting on our own environment. So these images are a celebration and a reminder of the urged need to change our ways.

Kofi Annan, the Prix Pictet’s Honorary President