What is the power of ambiguity in an image? Join celebrated female photographers Cristina de Middel and Olivia Arthur as they explore this and much more in this special episode developed in collaboration with Magnum Photos. This episode is hosted by curator, author and host of The Great Women Artists, Katy Hessel.  Held live to an audience at Somerset House during the annual photography fair Photo London this May, this panel on ‘Great Women in Photography’ marks the launch of ‘Magnum Photos...

Los Angeles: a city developed in a desert that's on fire. Recorded live in his exhibition ‘Haunted by the Desert’ in Large Glass Gallery, which is open in North London until the 9 July 2022, Prix Pictet Fire shortlister Mark Ruwedel tells us about four decades spent photographing LA and its surrounding ecology. Mark describes how although fire is an integral part of Southern California, over the past years climate change has made these wildfires more and more frequent and unpredictable,...

Today, we bring you an on-location interview directly from the opening week of the Venice Biennale, the world's oldest art exhibition, where Prix Pictet Disorder shortlsiter Ilit Azoulay represents Israel with a new body of work called ‘Queendom’.  Ilit's work at the Israel Pavilion in this 59th edition of the Biennale, which was postponed by the pandemic, is as timely as it is powerful.   Don't miss the accompanying e-book to this episode where you can see the images being described:...

Shorltisted for Prix Pictet Fire, Beninese photographer Fabrice Monteiro discusses how his colonial ancestry, inspirations as an artist, and past modelling career have shaped the complex works for 'The Prophecy' - a series of powerfully staged photographs that aim to contribute to an ecological awakening.  Don't miss the accompanying e-book to this episodes where you can see the images being described: https://www.instagram.com/p/CdGgMApIwkl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

How do you judge fire? Recorded live in our exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London this past December, a few hours before American photographer Sally Mann was announced the winner of this edition, Jeff Rosenhiem, Prix Pictet Fire Jury Member and Curator of Photography at the MET, tells us about sorting through hundreds of nominated photographers, his view on Fire, its role in photography and relationship to sustainability. Don't miss the accompanying e-book to the episode...

Regeneration is the process of renewal, restoration. Something the world is in desperate need of right now. A restoration of hope, a renewal of our physical selves, a regeneration of art and artists. Can we still dream? Can we still imagine the future with positive optimism? In the last episode of the series, we are joined by the distinguished historian, Peter Frankopan, the twice Prix Pictet nominated photographer Brent Stirton, and the 92-year-old Ghanaian photojournalist, James Barnor.  ...

We spend about 10,000 days of our lives working. But what we do for a salary, how we do it and crucially where we do it is facing the biggest upheaval in a century. Guests include Professor Herminia Ibarra of the London Business School, the Prix Pictet nominated photographer, Saskia Groneberg, and architect of the new Lambeth Palace Library, Clare Wright. View the accompanying e-book to this episode on our Instagram @Prix_Pictet.

The hungry human loves to look at food, relish its appearance. And while the process of food production is often depicted as wholesome, the food chain is something the end consumer knows little about in reality. Join leading authorities on the subject of food, Baroness Rosie Boycott and Wendell Steavenson, and the ground-breaking photographer Mishka Henner to help us answer those questions. View the accompanying e-book to this episode on our Instagram @Prix_Pictet.

Over 70% of the earth is covered in water and 70% of global trade passes over the planet’s five oceans. But can modern society learn to love, respect and nurture or only destroy it? This episode features renowned author and historian, Professor David Abulafia, the environmental journalist, Laura Trethewey, the twice Prix Pictet shortlisted photographer, Chris Jordan, and Chief Executive of Surfers against Sewage, Hugo Tagholm. View the accompanying e-book to this episode on our Instagram...

What does power mean for sustainability in the 21st century? Just a single word that, in different contexts, commands vastly distinct significations. Join acclaimed photographer, Taryn Simon, co-founder of the Eden Project, Sir Tim Smit, and the leading economist, Baroness Minouche Shafik, as they discuss what power means to them and how we can wield it for good. View the accompanying e-book to this episode on our Instagram @prix_pictet.

We have millions of images rushing at us every couple of weeks. But will it move us more? Will it change more? Offering a glimpse into the artistic mind of acclaimed photographer Nadav Kander, much of which apparently lays deep beyond the conscious, this Special Edition episode features for the first time our full length interview recorded in his London studio back in 2019. 

Conflict. Destruction. No matter how optimistic one is about human nature, the world is also full of war and wherever there is war, there is documentation of it: not least in the photograph, the frontline’s witness to the world.  This episode features for the first time the full conversation between two giants of journalism on the topic of conflict, Lionel Barber, former Editor of the Financial Times, and Funmi Iyanda, acclaimed Nigerian journalist, presenter and filmmaker.

Can photography heal trauma? In spring 2016, gunmen opened fire at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire. Three weeks after the event, Joana Choumali visited a city in mourning, taking photos on an iPhone and then later embroidering them to create a hopeful resilient look at the process of healing. This Special Edition episode features for the first time the full interview with Prix Pictet 'Hope' winner Joana Choumali first partly released in 2020. 

Is there hope? Photographers Don McCullin and Valerie Belin, and Angie Hobbs, professor of the public understanding of philosophy, ask if photography can save us.

Can photography combat conflict? Photographer Ross McDonnell, journalist and producer Funmi Iyanda and editor Lionel Barber consider horror, banality and beauty.

Can we ever be satisfied? Photographer Mandy Barker, sociologist Tiffany Jenkins and Catherine Flood, curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum of art and design, consider how photography feeds our appetites.

Can a photograph capture the complexity of displacement? Writer and activist Elif Shafak and photographers Gideon Mendel and Jillian Edelstein discuss the role of photography in today's displacement crisis.

What happens when we take a photo? Explore our "ocular era" with photographers Nadav Kander and Hannah Starkey, and curator Jeff Rosenheim of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.