For a portfolio that included these images captured in rural Rajasthan, Indian photographer Gauri Gill has won the prestigious Prix Pictet, a global award for photography and sustainability. “To live poor and landless in the desert amounts to an inescapable reliance on oneself, on each other, and on nature,” she added. “These fragments of shared experience now inhabit a large photographic archive called Notes from the Desert.”First launched in 2008, the Prix Pictet photography award aims to capture and highlight issues of work on themes connected to sustainability. Ragnar AxelssonEleven other portfolios of work were shortlisted for the award. A selection of the images can be viewed in the gallery above.

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Persons: Gauri Gill, Gill, “, ”, Ragnar Axelsson, Ragnar Axelsson’s, Alessandro Cinque, Isabelle von Ribbentrop Organizations: CNN, Prix, Pictet, Victoria, Albert Museum Locations: Rajasthan, Indian, Iceland, Peru, London, Istanbul, Dublin, Bangkok, Stockholm