Point in Time © Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, winner of the first Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability
12/05/2022
During an event at London’s Nobu Hotel Portman Square, Frédéric Rouzaud, President of the Louis Roederer Foundation, awarded Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah with the first Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability.
Autoportrait © Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
By creating the Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability, the Louis Roederer Foundation aims at supporting emerging photographers while highlighting sustainability and environmental issues. The theme this year is that of ‘terroir’ and the submitted works were judged by an internationally renowned panel of judges comprising Darius Sanai, Maryam Eisler, Brandei Estes, Azu Nwagbogu, Carrie Scott, Maria Sukkar.
This year, the jury was impressed by the stunning series of the winning photographer, Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, a German-Ghanaian visual artist and documentary photographer based in Zürich, Switzerland.
© Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
© Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
Entitled ‘Behold the Ocean’, her series forms part of an extensive body of work that explores the circumstances of climate research in southernmost Patagonia.
In 2020 she accompanied two oceanographers as they researched ocean acidification, a phenomenon caused by global warming. Its negative effects are significant; toxic microalgae thrives and endangers the marine ecosystem.
The two runners up are Jasper Goodall and Sahab Zaribaf who were also highly praised by the judges for their interpretations of the theme.
The works of the three finalists are currently being exhibited at The White Box, Nobu Hotel Portman Square until the 29th May 2022.