Prix Pictet and Leica Oskar Barnack Award present: Alejandro Cegarra and Alfredo Jaar in conversation
Prix Pictet Storm laureate Alfredo Jaar and winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025 Alejandro Cegarra discuss their approach to photography with journalist and author Charlotte Jansen.
Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar participated in the Venice Biennale (1986, 2007,2009 and 2013) and the Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (1987, 1989, 2010 and 2021), as well as Documenta in Kassel, Germany (1987 and 2002).
Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2007); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, all in Berlin (2012); Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2013); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom (2017); Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2020); SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo (2021); and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2023).
Jaar has received numerous awards including the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in Sweden in 2020. In 2024, he was awarded the IV Mediterranean Albert Camus Prize in Spain and this year has won the Edward MacDowell Medal in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
His work can be found in dozens of public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo; Tate, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; M+, Hong Kong; and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000, both in the United States.
Alejandro Cegarra
Alejandro Cegarra began his career in photojournalism in 2012 by filling in for photographers at Venezuela’s largest newspaper, Últimas Noticias. Since then, he has worked as a freelancer, contributing to publications including The New York Times, Bloomberg, National Geographic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and TIME magazine, among others.
During his career, he has been awarded the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025, becoming the first photographer ever to win both the main and the newcomer categories (the latter received in 2014). He has also been recognized with the Getty Editorial Grant (2017) and two World Press Photo awards in Long-Term Projects (2019 and 2024, the latter with the Global Award for Long-Term Projects).
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