Prix Pictet Storm: Group Exhibition

Ishara Art Foundation is pleased to host Prix Pictet Storm, the latest exhibition from the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. Prix Pictet was founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group with an aim to harness the power of photography to draw attention to issues of global sustainability. The exhibition at Ishara will be the first international iteration of Storm after it premieres at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in September 2025.

The exhibition will showcase works by twelve photographers shortlisted for the eleventh cycle of the award. Storm is both a natural phenomenon and a metaphor for the unseen and relentless forces shaping our world today. As a theme, it speaks to the growing volatility of our age, encompassing environmental collapse, economic instability and social unrest, where we seem forever poised on the brink of the next crisis.

The theme challenges photographers to capture the raw energy and profound consequences of these turbulent times. Whether focusing on the devastation of climate disasters, displacement or the simmering tensions within divided societies, Storm reveals not only disruption but also the generative force within, the possibility of transformation, renewal and hope that emerges in its wake.

Takashi Arai, Exposed in a Hundred Suns, 2011–ongoing
Marina Caneve, Are They Rocks or Clouds?, 2015–19
Tom Fecht, Luciferines — entre chien et loup (Luciferines — Between Dog and Wolf), 2015–25
Balazs Gardi, The Storm, 2020–21
Roberto Huarcaya, Amazogramas, 2014
Alfredo Jaar, The End, 2025
Belal Khaled, Hands Tell Stories, 2023–24
Hannah Modigh, Hurricane Season, 2012–16
Baudouin Mouanda, Ciel de saison (Seasonal Sky), 2020
Camille Seaman, The Big Cloud, 2008–14
Laetitia Vançon, Tribute to Odesa, 2022
Patrizia Zelano, Acqua Alta a Venezia (High Water in Venice), 2019

About Prix Pictet
Prix Pictet was founded by the Geneva-based Pictet Group in 2008 and is recognised today as the world’s leading prize for photography and sustainability. It is independently governed, managed and administered by an independent secretariat and an independent jury, with an advisory board.For each cycle, the award focuses on a different theme that promotes discussion and debate on issues of sustainability. A network of over 350 nominators, including critics, curators, and other specialists in photography, invites artists from around the world to submit their work.

The independent jury creates a shortlist of twelve photographers based on artistic and photographic merit, originality in conception and/or execution, relevance to the current cycle’s theme, ability to address a pressing sustainability challenge, and ensuring their series is a unified and coherent body of work. The jury then selects the winner from the shortlist and a prize of 100,000 Swiss Francs (124,000 USD / 107,000 EUR) is awarded for a body of work that speaks most powerfully to the theme.

The winner of Storm will be announced on Thursday 25 September 2025, at the opening of an exhibition featuring the twelve shortlisted photographers at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The exhibition will tour to over a dozen international venues, bringing the work of the shortlisted photographers to an international audience.