The Prix Pictet is one of the world’s most important prizes for environmental photography. The Prix Pictet Growth exhibition is now at the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid. The photographs are really impressive.
The following is by the winner of the Prix Pictet Growth prize, Mitch Epstein.
"BP Carson Refinery, California 2007" by Mitch Epstein
“The Hell of Copper” is a series of photos with which Nyaba Ouedraogo shows very close-up the reality of something I wrote about some days ago, the stream of waste from Europe to low-wage countries. It shows how workers in Ghana burn computers in order to get the copper out, which is then sold.
"The Hell of Copper (L'Enfer du Cuivre)" by Nyaba Ouedraogo
My personal favourite is Stéphane Couturier’s photo below of a French Toyota factory. With a long exposure, the moving elements (persons and cars) get transparent, while the colorful assembly line machines fill the space in a colourful, surreal way. The photographer wanted to capture the constant flux of today’s technological world.
"Usine Toyota n°2" by Stéphane Couturier
