The British-based photographer Nadav Kander is the winner of this year’s Prix Pictet, awarded for works that deal with sustainable development and the environment.

The SFr100,000 prize, founded last year by the Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie and co-sponsored by the Financial Times, was awarded to Mr Kander by Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations, at a ceremony in Paris on Thursday night.

Here is a slideshow of work by Mr Kander and the 11 other photographers who were shortlisted for this year’s award under the theme “Earth”.

Prix Pictet 2009 nominees

Nigeria, 2006

Ed Kashi's series 'Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta' examines the effects of oil spillage on the local environment

Gold Mining

Christopher Anderson has worked extensively in Latin America, focusing in particular on the consequences of Venezuela's exploitation of natural resources

Blast #5707

Naoya Hatakeyama's work, such as this series Blast, Lime Works, Ciel Tombé, River and Tunnel, explores the relationship between humans and their environment

Construction Mound

Nadav Kander, the 2009 Pictet prize winner, has used rapidly changing landscapes on the Yangtze River as a metaphor for constant change and the severing of roots

Untitled XIII

Andreas Gursky reinterprets a traditional landscape with an infinite view of rubbish from a landfill site in Mexico City

Iberia Quarries No. 8

Edward Burtynsky viewed the gaping holes of a Portuguese quarry as architecture in itself, describing the open-pit mines he saw as 'inverted pyramids'

Shade of Earth

Abbas Kowsari's image depicts the annual pilgrimage made during the Iranian New Year holiday to the former frontline of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war

Memoire 8

Sammy Baloji's work explores the industrial culture of Congo, in particular the effect of living among the ruins of colonisation

West Sea Canyon

Darren Almond's 'Fullmoon Series' showcase the beauty of China's Huang Shan province which is a subject of traditional Chinese landscape painting

Untitled

Edgar Martins' images of Portuguese forest fires were produced when he undertook a residency with fire fighters in Portalegre

Preparing Rice Fields Near Gotemba

Chris Steele-Perkins' series of images concentrate on Mount Fuji, and consider the place of Japan's iconic symbol in the modern world

Dwelling in the Mount Fuchun

Yao Lu's work evokes traditional Chinese painting to depict scenes that are both real and fictional