Alfredo Jaar was awarded the prestigious 11th Prix Pictet in a ceremony at the Victoria & Albert museum in London for his series The End (2025). The End is an intimate series of photographs the artist took at the Great Salt Lake in Utah to bring attention to the catastrophic environmental devastation of the lake.
"My objective in this series is to show the tragic fate of the lake and simultaneously reveal its extraordinary beauty and potential. In spite of the dire situation we are in, I wanted to create images of great beauty and sadness. In the face of the magnitude of this tragedy, I decided to print these images in a small, unspectacular format, as a kind of visual whisper, a lament for our dying planet."
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