The Prix Pictet award’s worthy mission is to promote photographic excellence and environmental sustainability. In its inaugural year the theme was water and the winner, announced by Kofi Annan in Paris, was Canadian phot…
The prestigious Prix Pictet is an annual prize for photography focusing on the environment. Following themes that have included water, earth and growth, the message for 2012 is power.
Monocle attends the Sundance Film Festival to ask whether you still need a screening to break the box office.
Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound reports on the world's premier award for achievement in environmental photography. With a mandate to use the power of photography to inspire thought and encourage action, the jury…
In the three years since its inception, the Prix Pictet has become the world's leading prize for photography in the field of sustainability. With a prize of CHF 100,000 the international jury honour a photographer whose…
What Cannes is to film and Venice is to architecture - Arles is to photography. Our Monocle film crew headed down to the South of France for the opening week of Les Rencontres d'Arles - the world's leading photography…
For our second film reporting from the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, Hugo Macdonald headed to the giardini to explore conceptual thought and artistic interpretations at the national pavilions.
Sunday 8 May
In a glitzy black-tie ceremony in Doha last week, Ricardo Karam, the Middle East’s answer to Piers Morgan, and the striking Al Jazeera anchor Laila Al Shaikhil, unveiled the winners of the second Takreem Awards: a lofty…
Friendly, cosmopolitan Fukuoka is tiny in comparison to Tokyo, but it beats the Japanese capital hands down with its cuisine and shopping. That’s why itis Monocle’s choice for our best retail city award.
Bassam Ghraoui and his workers defy the Syrian heat to produce exquisitely packaged, award-winning chocolates and fondants. We join them to find out why, for Ghraoui, the future is orange.
The US’s new wave of emigration, the verdict on London’s Design of the Year awards, and a look the Asia’s news for the day ahead.
A potted history of the world through the eyes of its people, we visit the Prix Italia awards in Turin, and enjoy music from Crybaby.
The latest shopping habits from America’s Black Friday and an interview with Matthieu Mabin, a French journalist awarded for his work in Libya.
Friday 24 February
In the English-speaking entertainment world it’s a good week for awards shows. But all collective breath will be none-more-bated than for the mother of them all, the Oscars, on Sunday night.
Saturday 15 January
Being a Swedish ambassador used to be an enviable job, something that politicians or officials were awarded with after years of loyal service, with any luck in some warm but important capital.
Wednesday 17 February
The recent Academy Award nomination for Ajami marks the third time in as many years that Israel has scored an Oscar nod for best foreign language film.
We look along Broadway and beyond to theatre land’s Tony Awards, learn of Berlin’s clubs battling rising rents, and visit the Roma Contemporary art fair.
A report on the 50 Best Restaurants awards in Singapore, we visit a Madrid restaurant dedicated solely to cheese, and another in Ontario that serves Finnish cuisine with a Canadian twist.
Why Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana, we speak to award-winning journalist James Reinl, and learn how violence in Kenya is affecting tourism.
We discuss the “supermajority” of California’s Democrat party, get the latest business news from Stockholm, review the Latin-American papers, head to Singapore for the President’s Design Award gala, and check-in with our…
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