For each Prix Pictet, Pictet & Cie will support a sustainability project related to the theme of the award. For the first Prix Pictet & Cie supported the UK charity WaterAid. Building on Pictet & Cie’s support for WaterAid, shortlisted artist Munem Wasif was commissioned to visit the Satkhira region of south-west Bangladesh where WaterAid will shortly introduce water and sanitation facilities to the area of Shyamnagar Upazilla.

The catalogue Salt Water Tears: Lives Left Behind in Satkhira, Bangladesh was produced in 2009 to accompany the Prix Pictet Water Commission. The project resulted in Munem Wasif’s powerful series of photographs, which were first shown in London in March 2009 and have subsequently been exhibited in Dresden and Geneva. The publication contains the commission photographs and essays by Francis Hodgson, Jury member and Photography Critic, Financial Times and the former Head of Photographs, Sotheby’s, Leo Johnson, Sustainability Adviser, and Pavel Partha. Proceeds from the sale of the Commission catalogue will be used to support the second Commission. 

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