Prix Pictet: HUMAN

Afshar began her career as a photographer in 2005 and completed her BA in fine art photography at Islamic Azad University, at the Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tehran, the following year. She moved to Australia in 2007 and received a PhD in creative arts at Curtin University, Perth, in 2019.

Exhibitions have included the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan (2022), her solo exhibition Speak the Wind, shown at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, as part of the PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography, and Thinking Historically in the Present at Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023).

Prizes won by Afshar include the National Photographic Portrait Prize, awarded by the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2015), and Monash Gallery of Art’s Bowness Photography Prize (2018). In 2021, she won the People’s Choice Award in the Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. She was awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship the same year.

Afshar’s works are held in collections including the V&A, London, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Art Gallery of South Australia, University of Auckland Art Collection, New Zealand, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Afshar’s first monograph, Speak the Wind, was published by MACK in London in 2021. She lectures in photography and fine art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

Artemova’s work has been exhibited widely at galleries and festivals in Europe and the United States, including at BursaPhotofest in Turkey (2012), Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (2014) and Odesa//Batumi Photo Days, Ukraine (2016). Her photography has been shown more recently at Semperdepot, Atelierhaus at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2019), Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland (2020), Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, Kyiv (2021), and YermilovCentre of Contemporary Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine (2021).

In 2022, Artemova’s work appeared at the Images Vevey festival in Switzerland, Vizura Zagreb Biennial and Künstlerhaus, Vienna, and in 2023 at the Centre of Art and Culture, Castello di San Michele, Sardinia, Italy.

Artemova has been commended, and shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the International Photography Awards (2008), Sony World Photography Awards (2010) and the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award (2015). She is a member of the UPHA (Ukrainian Photographic Alternative) cultural community, created to help and support the development of contemporary Ukrainian photography.

Axelsson was a photojournalist at Morgunblaðið, the leading Icelandic newspaper (1976–2020), and has worked on freelance assignments around the world including Greenland, Alaska, Siberia, Latvia, Lithuania, Mozambique, South Africa, China and Ukraine.

Axelsson’s work has been exhibited widely, both in Iceland and internationally. He has received more than twenty Icelandic photojournalism awards. He has received an honourable mention in the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2001) and has been shortlisted for the same prize (2020). He won the Grand Prix at Festival International de la Photo de Mer, Vannes, France (2003), and his book Andlit Norðursins (English edition, Faces of the North) won the 2016 Icelandic Literary Prize for non-fiction.

His photographs have been featured in Life, Newsweek, Stern, GEO, National Geographic, Time and Polka Magazine.

Axelsson has published a total of eight books, including Jökull (Glacier) (2018) and, most recently, Arctic Heroes (2020).
He is a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Falcon, Iceland’s highest honour.

In 2019, after studying at the International Center for Photography in New York, Cinque moved to Lima to deepen his long-term work and immerse himself in Peru’s culture and society. In the same year, he began working as a stringer for Reuters, covering the wider Andean region.

Cinque’s work has been exhibited worldwide. He is a World Press Photo 2023 winner in the South America category, a winner of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Sustainability Prize and Lauréat du Grand Prix for the 2023 Prix Terre Solidaire. He has been a finalist or nominee for numerous other awards.

Cinque has received grants from the National Geographic Society’s Emergency Fund for Journalists (2021) and from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Fund in the same year.

His photographs have been published widely in international media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, 6Mois, GEO, Stern, Libération and others. In 2022, his work appeared on the cover of National Geographic and he became a ‘National Geographic Explorer’.

In January 2023, he published his first fanzine, covering his work on the Quechua over the past six years.

Davey’s work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows, including at Aperture, New York (2018), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2021), Richard Saltoun Gallery, London (2021), and Images Vevey, Switzerland (2022).

Davey’s work is held by collections including the Science Museum, London, the V&A, London, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, and the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, United Kingdom.

She has won awards including the Arnold Newman Award for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, New York (2016) and the Prix Virginia, Paris (2016). Her work was selected in three consecutive years, from 2015 to 2017, for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Davey’s book Looking for Alice (2015), chronicling the early years of her daughter born with Down’s syndrome, was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2016 and for the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation 2017 Book Awards. In 2018, she published her second book, Martha, which follows another of her four children.

Gill studied at Delhi College of Art, Parsons School of Design, New York, and Stanford University, California.

Her work has been shown internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010), The Wiener Holocaust Library, London (2014), San José Museum of Art, California (2015) and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India (2016). In 2017, Gill’s work was exhibited at Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel, the 7th Moscow
Biennale, and Centre Pompidou, Paris. It has been shown at Museum Tinguely, Basel (2018), MoMA PS1, New York (2018), the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Chobi Mela, Dhaka (2019), and BAMPFA, Berkeley, California (2020).

Gill’s first major survey exhibition opened at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, in 2022, moving to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark,
in January 2023.

She also exhibits at locations outside the art world, including public libraries, rural schools and non-profit institutions. Her work is held by institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Smithsonian Institution, Washington and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.

Her awards include the Grange Prize, awarded by the Art Gallery of Ontario (2011), and an India Today Art Award (2018). She has been a Creative Arts Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2013), and was the inaugural Roberta Denning Visiting Artist at Stanford University (2022).

Gill has recently published two books with Edition Patrick Frey about her collaborations with rural artists, Acts of Appearance (2022) and Fields of Sight (2023).

Luczak received a BA in Iberian Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, and a PhD at the Institute of Creative Photography at Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic.

Solo exhibitions of Luczak’s work have been held at MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków,
Poland (2018) and the Silesian Museum in Katowice (2019). As a member of the Sputnik Photos collective, he has exhibited at FOTODOK in Utrecht, the Netherlands (2014) and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2016–17).

He received an honourable mention in the Magnum Expression Awards (2009), was a winner at the MIO Photo Awards in Osaka, Japan (2010), and has won Polish Photographic Publication of the Year (2013). He has also been a recipient of a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2021).

Łuczak is the author of several photo books: Brutal (2012), Koło miejsca / Elementarz (Circle of places / primer), with Krzysztof Siwczyk (2016), and 11.41, with Filip Springer (2016).

He has been a member of Sputnik Photos since 2010, co-leading its annual documentary photography workshop. He teaches at the Faculty of Art of the Pedagogical University of Kraków.

Martínez’s work has featured in solo and group shows in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America.

Martínez has been honoured for his photography on many occasions. In 2019, he was a W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant Recipient, a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow, and second prize winner in the World Press Photo Long-Term Projects category. He became a Magnum Associate member in 2022 and won the World Press Photo Contest prize for the North and Central America region in 2022.

Martínez’s work has been published widely by media including National Geographic, Aperture, the New York Times, Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Vogue Italia, Bloomberg and Vrij Nederland. He is represented by Patricia Conde Galería, Mexico City.

Renaldi’s work has been shown at the George Eastman Museum in New York and the Museum of the City of New York.

Renaldi is the author of five books, including a visual autobiography, I Want Your Love (Super Labo, 2018). The others are Richard Renaldi: Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006), Fall River Boys (Charles Lane Press, 2009), Touching Strangers (Aperture, 2014) and Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016). His project Billions Served was featured in the New Yorker and the Financial Times.

In 2015, Renaldi received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

In 2008, Renaldi founded Charles Lane Press, dedicated to publishing lesser-known or emerging photographers and overlooked projects.

Since 2004, he has been involved with Visual AIDS as an archive member, fundraiser and supporter.

In 2011, he received the Bill Olander Award, honouring his commitment to art activism, AIDS advocacy, HIV prevention, education and support of other artists with HIV/AIDS.

Ríos’s early exhibitions include The Signature of Los Rios at Vídeo Guerrilha in São Paulo, Brazil (2013) and Transputamierda at the Valongo International Photography Festival in Santos, Brazil (2016).

In 2017, Ríos presented his work on FARC, the Colombian armed group, at LaGuardia Community College, New York, at Kaunas Photo festival, Lithuania, and at the Unseen Amsterdam festival.

Ríos’s most recent exhibition, Los días póstumos de una guerra sin final, opened at Bandy Bandy Gallery in Bogotá in February 2020. Ríos has won prizes including a Jury Award at Days Japan (2017), first prize in the News Series category at POY Latam (2017), the Hansel-Mieth-Preis (2019), Winner of the Visa D’Or ICRC (2023) and Winner of the Photojournalist of the Year at POY Latam (2023).

In 2012, Ríos’s photobook La ruta del cóndor (The Route of the Condor) was published jointly by Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá and Universidad de Caldas. His most recent photobook, VERDE, was published by Raya with photo editor Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo in 2021.

His work has appeared frequently in the New York Times and other media including Stern, GEO, Time, Paris Match and LFI Magazine.

Winship’s work has been exhibited at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including at Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2008), Side Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom (2008–09) and Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2009–10). Her first mid-career exhibition was held at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid (2014), and toured six museums in Spain and Italy.

Winship’s work has also been shown at Musée de la Cohue, Vannes, France (2008), and in 2018 she held a major solo show, And Time Folds, alongside the work of Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.

Winship’s work is held in collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London, The Do Good Fund, Columbus, United States, the Sir Elton John Photographic Collection, United Kingdom, Fundación MAPFRE, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris and Tate Britain, London.

She has twice received prizes at the World Press Photo Contest (1998 and 2008), won Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year (2008) and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (2011).

Winship is the author and subject of several monographs: Schwarzes Meer (Black Sea) (mareverlag, 2007), Sweet Nothings (Foto8 and Images En Manoeuvres, 2008), she dances on Jackson (MACK and HCB, 2013), Sète#19 (Le Bec en l’air editions, 2019), the boxset Seeing the Light of Day (B-Sides Box Sets EDITIONS EDITIONS, 2020) and Snow (Deadbeat Club, 2022), which interleaves images of rural Ohio with Ice, a short story by Jem Poster.

Yogananthan’s first major project was Piémanson, a series shot over five summers (2009–13) on the last wild beach in France. His seven-book project A Myth of Two Souls (2013–21), inspired by the Indian epic tale The Ramayana, received solo exhibitions at the Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2019), the Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo (2019), DECK, Singapore (2020), and the Belfast Photo Festival, United Kingdom (2023). The project was also exhibited in the group shows Illuminating India: Photography 1857–2017 at the Science Museum, London (2017), and Body Building at the Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2019).

Yogananthan has received several awards, including the Prix Levallois, Paris (2016) and Emerging Photographer of the Year in the ICP Infinity Awards in New York (2017). In the same year, he was selected for the Foam Talent programme, Amsterdam.

His books Dandaka (2018) and Amma (2021) were awarded respectively the Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award (2019) and Jurors’ Special Mention at the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards (2021). In 2022, Yogananthan participated in Immersion, a French-American photography commission by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Paris, in partnership with Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, and The International Center of Photography, New York.

In 2014, Yogananthan co-founded the publishing house Chose Commune in Paris.