Pictet Group named official partner of Paris Photo
Pictet Group, the independent Geneva-based wealth and asset manager, and Paris Photo, the world’s leading international art fair dedicated to photography and image-based art, today announce a landmark new partnership. Pictet Group has been named Official Partner of Paris Photo, a collaboration that brings together two entities united by a shared belief in the enduring power of the medium.
This is a significant milestone for Pictet Group, whose engagement with photography and the visual arts has been a defining strand of its cultural identity for nearly two decades. As part of the official partnership, Prix Pictet — the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability, founded by Pictet Group in 2008 — will, for the first time, have a dedicated presence at Paris Photo’s 29th edition, held from 12-15 November 2026, including the fair's opening day on 11 November.
The partnership reflects a natural alignment: Paris Photo is the annual meeting point for the international photography world, and Pictet Group has for 17 years championed photography as a medium uniquely capable of bearing witness to the environmental and societal challenges of our time.
“Our partnership with Paris Photo is a natural extension of Pictet’s commitment to photography and the arts. Since launching the Prix Pictet in 2008, we have championed photography’s unique power to engage audiences with the most pressing sustainability challenges of our time. Supporting Paris Photo at the Grand Palais builds on that legacy. We are honoured to join forces with the world’s leading photography fair to help celebrate the impact and insight that photography brings to society.”
— François Pictet, Managing Partner of the Pictet Group
“We are delighted to welcome Pictet as a new Official Partner of Paris Photo. For nearly two decades, Prix Pictet has championed artists whose work offers a perspective on some of the defining issues of our time. This artistic and intellectual commitment lies at the heart of what Paris Photo has supported and promoted for almost thirty years. We are particularly pleased to present, for the first time at the Grand Palais, a selection of works from Prix Pictet as part of an edition marked by the Bicentenary of Photography.”
— Florence Bourgeois, Director of Paris Photo
Prix Pictet at Paris Photo 2026
Prix Pictet will occupy a booth on the Promenoir, a central position within the Nef of the Grand Palais. For the 2026 edition of Paris Photo, the inaugural Prix Pictet booth will present a curated selection of works by past Prix Pictet Laureates. The presentation will demonstrate the exceptional quality and breadth of artistic vision that Prix Pictet has recognised since 2008, united by a shared engagement with the environmental and societal questions at the heart of the award.
Works on show will address themes that are as urgent today as when they were first recognised by the Prix Pictet jury, from the beauty and violence of a destabilised climate to the pathologies of mass consumption and its cost to the natural world. They trace a line through some of the defining questions of our time — and through what photography can do when placed in their service.
A partnership that deepens longstanding commitments to photography and sustainability
Sustainability is embedded in Pictet Group’s identity and investment philosophy, guided by its founding principles of independence, long-term thinking, partnership and responsibility. It was from this foundation that the Prix Pictet was established, operating from a defining conviction that photography is uniquely placed to change the way people understand the environmental challenges facing the planet.
Recognised today as the world’s leading prize for photography and sustainability, every second year, the award focuses on a different theme that promotes discussion and debate on issues of sustainability, with a prize of CHF 100,000 awarded to the photographer whose body of work most powerfully speaks to that theme.
The shortlisted artworks present the beauty, violence and complexity of a world under strain in ways that statistics and reports cannot. Since its inception, more than 5,600 photographers have been nominated across 11 cycles and touring exhibitions in museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Palais de Tokyo have reached over 1.5 million visitors worldwide, bringing important questions around ecological collapse, climate disruption to a wide audience.
Currently in its 12th cycle, the theme for the next Prix Pictet will be announced during the Rencontres d’Arles in July 2026. The shortlist will be announced in July 2027, with the winner announced at an award ceremony held at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in September 2027.
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About Pictet Group
The Pictet Group is a partnership of owner-managers, with principles of succession and transmission of ownership that have remained unchanged since foundation in
1805. It offers only wealth management, asset management, alternative investment solutions and related asset services. The Group does not engage in investment banking, nor does it extend commercial loans. With CHF 757 (EUR 813, GBP 710, USD 955) billion in assets under management or custody at 31 December 2025, Pictet is today one of the leading Europe-based independent wealth and asset managers for private clients and institutional investors.
Founded and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, Pictet today employs around 5,500 people. It has 31 offices worldwide, in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Basel, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, Lausanne, Lisbon, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Monaco, Montreal, Munich, Nassau, New York, Osaka, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Stuttgart, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Turin, Verona and Zurich.
About Prix Pictet
Founded in 2008 by Pictet Group, Prix Pictet is the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. Each cycle, a network of over 350 nominators proposes photographers from around the world whose work addresses a specific sustainability theme. An independent jury selects a shortlist of twelve artists and names a winner, who receives a prize of CHF 100,000. To date, more than 5,600 photographers have been nominated across eleven cycles, and the touring exhibitions have reached over 1.5 million visitors worldwide.
The 11 laureates, in order of their recognition, are:
- Benoit Aquin · Water (2008) · Canadian documentary photographer; his series on desertification in China, The Chinese ‘Dust Bowl’, is widely regarded as one of the defining photo-essays on environmental degradation.
- Nadav Kander · Earth (2009) · British Israeli photographer known for monumental landscape works; his series Yangtze — The Long River documents industrialisation along China’s most iconic waterway.
- Mitch Epstein · Growth (2011) · American photographer whose American Power series examined the United States’ energy infrastructure; held in major collections including MoMA, New York.
- Luc Delahaye · Power (2012) · French photographer celebrated for large-format works occupying the boundary between documentary and staged image-making; subject of major retrospectives at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and Photo Elysée, Lausanne.
- Michael Schmidt · Consumption (2014) · German photographer and a foundational figure of the Düsseldorf school tradition; Lebensmittel his final major series addressed industrial food production and its relationship to the body.
- Valérie Bélin · Disorder (2015) · French photographer whose Still Life series examines mass production, identity and the politics of the image; recently elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
- Richard Mosse · Space (2017) · Irish artist working at the intersection of documentary and conceptual photography; Heat Maps, his large-scale thermal imaging works on migration and conflict have been shown at major international institutions.
- Joana Choumali · Hope (2019) · Ivorian photographer and textile artist; her layered, hand-embroidered Ça va aller (it will be ok) series addresses grief, memory and resilience in post-conflict West Africa.
- Sally Mann · Fire (2021) · One of America’s most celebrated photographers; her decades-long engagement with landscape, mortality and Southern memory (including in her series Blackwater) has established her as a canonical figure in the medium.
- Gauri Gill · Human (2023) · Indian photographer whose long-term Notes from the Desert series with marginalised communities in rural India challenges Western conventions of documentary photography.
- Alfredo Jaar · Storm (2025) · Chilean American artist and architect whose practice addresses the politics of representation, the limits of the image, and the responsibilities of witness; the most recent Prix Pictet laureate for his series The End.
About Paris Photo
Founded in 1997, Paris Photo is the leading international fair dedicated to photography and image-based art. Since its inception, the fair has brought together galleries, publishers and artists, reflecting the evolving landscape of the medium.
From historical works to contemporary and digital practices, its scope has expanded alongside broader shifts in photography over the past three decades. The introduction of curated sectors has progressively structured the fair, highlighting emerging scenes, publishing and new forms of image-making. Held annually in Paris, the fair has developed in parallel with the transformations of the medium, bringing into conversation different periods, geographies and artistic approaches.
