Joana Choumali wins 2019 Prix Prictet photography prize

Artist becomes first African to win the prestigious prize, for embroidered pictures created following terrorist attack• See a photo essay of the Prix Pictet 2019 shortlistJoana Choumali, a 45-year-old photographer from Ivory Coast, has become the first African artist to win the Prix Pictet. The announcement was made this evening in a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for the opening of an exhibition of the 12 shortlisted artists.The theme of the eighth Prix Pictet, a glob