Rinko Kawauchi & Daisuke Yokota: Prix Pictet 2021 'Fire'

Prix Pictet 2021: Fire

The world's leading prize for photography and sustainability

The shortlist of twelve photographers selected for the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet was announced on Thursday 8 July 2021 at a presentation at the opening of Les Rencontres d’Arles International Photography Festival.

The shortlisted photographers are:

• Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, lives and work in France
• Rinko Kawauchi, lives and works in Japan
• Sally Mann, lives and works in the USA
• Christian Marclay, lives and works in the United Kingdom
• Fabrice Monteiro, lives and works in Senegal
• Lisa Oppenheim, lives and works in the USA
• Mak Remissa, lives and works in Cambodia
• Carla Rippey, lives and works in Mexico
• Mark Ruwedel, lives and works in the USA
• Brent Stirton, lives and works in the USA
• David Uzochukwu, lives and works in the USA and Belgium
• Daisuke Yokota, lives and works in Japan

Prix Pictet announces ‘Fire’ as the theme for the ninth cycle of the award. As Chair Stephen Barber explains, the choice of theme is timely. 'Fire has hardly been out of the news since the inferno that consumed Notre Dame in Paris in early 2019. We have seen record rainforest blazes in the Amazon, forest and bush fires in Australia and conflagrations in California. It is the fourth element. Fire destroys and it renews. Fire means survival, renewal, and economic prosperity. Yet our abuse of this most capricious of elements is the source of most of our environmental woes.'