The Prix Pictet photography prize which hatnesses the power of photographyto draw global attention to issues of sustainability, has announced a five-year partnership with the V&A Museum, London. The Museum, which has hosted recent awards ceremonies, will host the awards ceremony and shortlist exhibition for the next five cycles of the Prix Pictet. The first exhibition in this series will take place from 26 September-19 October 2025 in the Museum’s Photography Centre. Additionally, one of the galleries in the Centre will be renamed ‘The Pictet Gallery’ in January 2025, in recognition of the Pictet Group's support for photography.
The Prix Pictet has staged over 150 shortlist exhibitions in many major cities of the world with visitor numbers of over one million. The ten Prix Pictet winners to date are Benoit Aquin, Nadav Kander, Mitch Epstein, Luc Delahaye, Michael Schmidt, Valérie Belin, Richard Mosse, Joana Choumali, Sally Mann and most recently Gauri Gill.
Duncan Forbes, Head of Photography at the V&A, said, "The Photography Centre at V&A is the largest space in the UK dedicated to a permanent photography collection, and we’re delighted that with the support of Prix Pictet the Museum will continue to celebrate photography’s many histories and explore its extensive impact on our lives.”
Separately, the Prize has announced that V&A Trustee Zewditu Gebreyohanes will join judging panel for Storm. Gebreyohanes was appointed a trustee of the V&A in 2022. She is a Senior Researcher at the right-leaning think tank The Legatum Institute. Prior to this she was Director of the pressure group Restore Trust which attempted to influence the direction of the National Trust. Between 2021 and 2022 she worked at the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange, where she was Head of the History Matters Project: a policy unit focussing on the preservation of British history and heritage.
See: https://prix.pictet.com/ and https://prix.pictet.com/in-focus/zewditu-gebreyohanes-to-join-the-prix-pictet-judging-panel-for-s
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