• ©2025, Prix Pictet Ltd.
©2025, Prix Pictet Ltd.

Storm | Eleventh cycle of the Prix Pictet

Storm 2024

A Maquette for a Multiple Monument for the Wristwatch Dug up from Ueno-Machi, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, 2014

Storm is the theme for the eleventh cycle of the Prix Pictet. The Prix Pictet’s global network of over 350 nominators identified portfolios of work that align with the eleventh theme. These portfolios were reviewed by the independent jury chaired by Sir David King. The Storm shortlist was presented at the Rencontres d’Arles in July 2025. The eleventh laureate will be announced at the opening of the award exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in September 2025.

Storm | Eleventh cycle of the Prix Pictet

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, political upheaval, 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.

Shortlist

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 (Luciferins — 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, Le 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

Jury

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