Photographers on this year’s shortlist in the Prix Pictet competition have tackled the paradoxical nature of power
'Combat Support Service Operations', California, 2003-04
'Dublin, Ireland', 2011
Oil Spill #6 Oil covers the surface of the Gulf of Mexico in the vicinity of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill source.
'Camp Five, detainee’s cell', Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba, 2009
'A statue of Patrice Lumumba erected by Laurent Kabila, and an unfinished tower built during the Mobutu years, look down on Jean-Pierre Bemba supporters as they make their way to an election rally in Kinshasa', July 2006
'Hessa Abdul Rahman Al-Oun Chairman of five companies; a.o. Al-bidaia Company for Trading & Industry and the First Female Industrial City Center', Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, November 2005
'David Schellenberg, Executive Director, Climate Change and Environmental Services, Canada', November 28-December 9 2005
'Maria Harlam's red currants. Collecting wild berries and mushrooms in the Zone is forbidden as they soak up radiation and are highly dangerous', Guben village, Chernobyl, Ukraine, December 2010
Sitka Spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregon
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