Photographer + Camera = Sustainability?

If you're looking this closely then you'll be disappointed when I tell you that he's covering his noodle with a cloth!The above equation isn’t one which will resonate with most folk. However, the people at Prix Pictet (a major new global prize in photography that focuses on sustainability) have created such a link.

The award is set up in collaboration between the Swiss bank, Pictet, and the Financial Times. According to Treehugger the remit was to produce “works that are of outstanding artistic merit that also communicate messages of urgent global significance”. There has been a world-wide nominations panel of over 40 leading experts in the visual arts, from six continents drawing up a shortlist of photographers and their work which has been announced this month.

Have a look at the Prix Pictet 2008 shortlist for yourself and you’ll find topics including water conservation, natural disasters, and refugees being exhibited.

Send in any photos you may have taken or seen that you feel evoke or represent sustainability, and we could get our very own mini gallery going!

  Photo via Prix Pictet

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