Ganga Ma, the island, India 2014

Ganga Ma (Mother Ganges) is the culmination of a ten-year research project.Much of Di Sturco’s work is concerned with the future – the evolution of societies and human adaptation in the face of environmental pressures and technological change. With Ganga Ma, the photographer provides a poetic and foreboding portrait of the river, up close, through images that move back and forth between the observational detachment of documentary photography and an aesthetic painterly response to the ecological and atmospheric conditions of the Ganges.

An award-winning photographer working with photography and video, Di Sturco began his career as a photojournalist before devoting himself to long-term projects that explore the society of the future in the face of environmental and technological change. Experimenting with visual narrative, new and old media, his practice extends the traditions of documentary photography by evoking a poetics of the future where the boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred. His awards include three World Press Photo Awards, the Sony Photography Awards, the British Journal of Photography International Awards and two Getty Grants. In 2019, his Aerotropolis project was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Award and nominated for the Prix Pictet. In 2022, his ongoing project Anthropocosmos was selected for the BNF grant.

Ganga Ma, the island, India 2014

€10,000

GANGA MA, VARANASI

€10,000

GANGA MA, THE BOY

€5,500

GANGA MA, PICNIC ISLAND

€4,500

GANGA MA, PICNIC ISLAND

€4,500

GANGA MA, THE LAST BOAT

€9,000

GANGA MA

€6,500

GANGA MA

€4,500

GANGA MA

€5,500

GANGA MA, THE GLACIER

€8,000