Peter Aspden
Financial Times Arts Writer
Peter Aspden is the Financial Times’ Arts Writer, having previously been the Arts Editor for five years. He joined the paper in 1994, as deputy books and arts editor and a general feature writer on the Weekend FT. He has written on numerous subjects, including travel, religion, politics, history, most art forms and sport: he covered the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, and the World Cup in France in 1998.
He was born in London in 1958, but spent much of his childhood in Greece, where his mother was born. He was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, before going into journalism. He joined the Times Higher Education Supplement in 1985, where he went on to become deputy editor.
He has been writing a weekly column on contemporary culture for the Financial Times since January 2004; it appears in the Life & Arts section every Saturday.
Water Jury
The jury for the Prix Pictet are a group of leading experts in the visual arts from around the world including directors of major museums and galleries as well as journalists and critics. They lead the global search for images of high artistic qcuality and narrative power and fit the theme of a particular cycle.
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Francis Hodgson – Chairman
Head of Photographs, Sotheby’s
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Peter Aspden
Financial Times Arts Writer
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Régis Durand
Writer and critic, former Head of the Jeu de Paume
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Leo Johnson
Co-Founder, Sustainable Finance
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Abbas Kiarostami
Film director
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Richard Misrach
Environmental photographer
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Loa Haagen Pictet
Art consultant & curator, Pictet & Cie