Family
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Prix Pictet: A Lens on Sustainability
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Can photography save us from ourselves? Leading photographers consider the power of the photograph to explore the urgent environmental and social issues facing humanity today. From the Prix Pictet, the leading global photography prize on sustainability.
Tradition
As the world faces upheaval in the uprooting of statues, culture wars and industrial globalisation, we ask, what is happening to tradition in art, med...
Mortality
Can photography help process mortality? Throughout history, humans have been obsessed with eternal life. But death is inevitable, a natural part of li...
The City
Are cities sustainable? As many look beyond the city as they look beyond the pandemic, this episode takes a photographic look at cities and space, and...
Plant-Based World
How does the natural world influence the way we look at the broader question of sustainability? In this episode we explore our symbiotic relationship ...
Fire – new theme of the ninth Prix Pictet
After the plague comes fire. Over the last years, we have seen an outbreak of catastrophic fires across the world. In its untamed form, fire wreaks te...
Hope
Is there hope? Photographers Don McCullin and Valerie Belin, and Angie Hobbs, professor of the public understanding of philosophy, ask if photography ...
Conflict
Can photography combat conflict? Photographer Ross McDonnell, journalist and producer Funmi Iyanda and editor Lionel Barber consider horror, banality ...
Consumption
Can we ever be satisfied? Photographer Mandy Barker, sociologist Tiffany Jenkins and Catherine Flood, curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum of art...
Displacement
Can a photograph capture the complexity of displacement? Writer and activist Elif Shafak and photographers Gideon Mendel and Jillian Edelstein discuss...