Gallery of Photography, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin Until May 30 01-6714654
The Prix Pictet is the first prize devoted to photographic work that delivers "messages of global environmental significance under a broad theme". Last year, the theme was very broad indeed: Earth, meaning both the planet and the stuff of the soil.
A jury came up with a shortlist of 12 from over 300 nominated artists. This exhibition features work by those shortlisted. They include several major luminaries in the international art photography firmament: Andreas Gursky (who shows us a vast rubbish tip in Mexico), Edward Burtynsky, famous for his epic images of industrialised landscapes, and Nadav Kander, a versatile talent whose images of life and environment along the Yangtze River are extraordinary (in fact, they won him the prize last October).
Also in the line-up are Darren Almond, Christopher Anderson, Sammy Baloji, Naoya Hatakeyama, Ed Kashi, Abbas Kowsari, Yao Lu, Edgar Martins and Chris Steele-Perkins.
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