2nd Prize Prize People – Staged Portraits Single, 06 February 2012, Beijing, China
Stefen Chow, Malaysia, for Smithsonian magazine
Ai Wei Wei
Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei is active across a number of media, including sculpture, installation, architecture, photography and film. In May this year, Ai was a recipient of the inaugural Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent, awarded by the Human Rights Foundation.