Mitch Epstein Wins the Prix Pictet Photography Prize

On Thursday, Prix Pictet named Mitch Epstein’s American Power, a stunning series on fossil fuels and renewable energy use in the U.S. this year’s winner of the group’s third photography prize for environmental sustainability. The theme of this year’s competition was growth, which correlated with Prix Pictet’s mission to “search for photographs that communicate powerful messages of global environmental significance.”