Ishara Art Foundation hosts Prix Pictet: Storm, the eleventh cycle of the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability, from 17 October to 13 December 2025. Founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, the Prix Pictet harnesses the power of photography to illuminate issues of global sustainability. Following its premiere at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, this exhibition marks the first international iteration of Storm.
The exhibition features works by twelve shortlisted photographers, including winner Alfredo Jaar, whose collective vision confronts the turbulence of our age. The theme of Storm explores both a natural phenomenon and a metaphor for instability, environmental collapse, social unrest, and political uncertainty, while revealing the potential for renewal and hope within disruption.
From Takashi Arai’s daguerreotypes tracing nuclear histories to Belal Khaled’s images of survival in Gaza, each artist captures the visible and invisible forces shaping today’s world. Alfredo Jaar’s The End documents the ecological devastation of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, while Camille Seaman’s The Big Cloud studies the sublime, destructive beauty of supercell storms. The exhibition includes works by Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht, Balazs Gardi, Roberto Huarcaya, Hannah Modigh, Baudouin Mouanda, Laetitia Vançon, and Patrizia Zelano.
The presentation of Storm at Ishara reflects the foundation’s ongoing commitment to art that critically engages with social and ecological concerns, particularly within South Asia, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions. For the Prix Pictet, this exhibition extends the dialogue around sustainability and human resilience through the lens of global photography.
Location: Ishara Art Foundation, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai.
Date: 17 October until 13 December 2025