Dec 27, 2021
American photographer Sally Mann is the winner of the this year’s Prix Pictet award for her project exploring the devastating wildfires at the Great Dismal Swamp in south-eastern Virginia.
The winning series, titled Blackwater, was conducted between 2008 and 2012 where the first slave ships docked in America.
Ms Mann draws a parallel between the destruction and racial conflict in America.
“The fires in the Great Dismal Swamp seemed to epitomise the great fire of racial strife in America - the civil war, emancipation, the civil rights movement, in which my family was involved, the racial unrest of the late 1960s and most recently the summer of 2020,” she said.
Sally Mann/Gagosian/Prix Pictet
source : BBC
