Presentation honoring images and sustainability coming to Chicago

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP), in partnership with Prix Pictet, the world’s main award for images and sustainability, will current the award’s eleventh cycle, titled “Prix Pictet Storm,” at MoCP from May 29 via August 22, 2026. MoCP’s presentation marks the exhibition’s U.S. debut on its worldwide tour.

The Prix Pictet Award was based in 2008 by the Pictet Group with the purpose of harnessing the ability of images to attract world consideration to crucial sustainability points. Each cycle’s theme highlights a selected side of sustainability. The newest installment, “Storm,” represents each a pure phenomenon and a metaphor for the unseen and relentless forces that form our world right this moment. This theme speaks to the rising volatility of our environmental, socioeconomic, and political landscapes, every seemingly getting ready to disaster.

“Storm” marks the sixth Prix Pictet exhibition to journey to the United States; that is the primary time the award will journey to Chicago. Prix Pictet “Storm” highlights 12 modern photographers, who had been nominated by a board of curators, critics, and specialists for his or her artistically excellent our bodies of labor that includes compelling narratives associated to the cycle’s theme. Whether or not it’s the devastation of local weather disasters or tensions inside divided societies, the pictures featured in “Storm” reveal not solely disruption, but in addition the generative forces inside it—the potential for transformation and hope that emerges in its wake.

“It is a privilege to present ‘Prix Pictet Storm’ at MoCP as part of its engagement with urgent global dialogues, showcasing the powerful work of 12 shortlisted artists whose practices confront the realities of the climate crisis and widespread political turbulence,” mentioned Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of MoCP. “This collaboration with the Prix Pictet reflects our ongoing commitment to photography that challenges audiences to critically engage with the social and environmental issues shaping our world.”

The 12 shortlisted photographers are Takashi Arai, Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht, Balazs Gardi, Roberto Huarcaya, Alfredo Jaar, Belal Khaled, Hannah Modigh, Baudouin Mouanda, Camille Seaman, Laetitia Vançon, and Patrizia Zelano. Supporters of MoCP will acknowledge Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar, whose Caritas, Real Pictures (1995) was acquired for the museum’s assortment in 1995. Jaar was introduced because the winner of “Prix Pictet Storm” on the exhibition’s opening on September 25, 2025, on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The theme “Storm” challenges photographers to seize the uncooked power and profound penalties of those turbulent instances.

“We are honoured to present the work of the 12 shortlisted artists at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago,” mentioned Stephen Barber, Chair at Prix Pictet. “For over 15 years, our mission at Prix Pictet has been to showcase the best of global photography, focusing on the urgent topic of sustainability. The opportunity to tour and share this work with the public in Chicago is a privilege for us, and we hope the exhibition inspires reflection and hope in the face of uncertainty.”

The exhibition will tour to greater than a dozen worldwide venues, together with Luma Westbau in Zurich, Switzerland, and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei, Taiwan, bringing the work of the shortlisted photographers to a world viewers.

Throughout the run of “Prix Pictet Storm,” MoCP will host quite a lot of public applications, together with exhibition excursions, a panel dialogue about collective local weather motion, and a digital artist discuss with featured photographers Marina Caneve and Hannah Modigh.

About MoCP

Founded in 1976, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) is a premier faculty artwork museum devoted to images. As an accredited artwork museum with the American Alliance of Museums, MoCP is a famend images particular establishment whose mission is to generate concepts and provoke dialogue via groundbreaking exhibitions, modern applications, and experiential occasions to domesticate a deeper understanding of the creative, cultural, and political roles of images in our world right this moment.

MoCP is supported by Columbia College Chicago, MoCP Advisory Board, Museum Council, people, personal and company foundations, and authorities grants.

About Prix Pictet

Prix Pictet was based by the Geneva-based Pictet Group in 2008 and is acknowledged right this moment because the world’s main prize for images and sustainability. It is independently ruled, managed, and administered by an impartial secretariat and an impartial jury with an advisory board.