With each Prix Pictet award, Pictet supports a charity whose work reflects the theme of the prize. Simon Norfolk will visit Afghanistan with the support of Medair’s Afghan and international staff working on the ground.

Active in Afghanistan since 1996, Medair helps communities survive such disasters as droughts, floods and landslides, but stays to teach and implement Disaster Risk Reduction strategies, such as flood prevention infrastructure, so that communities have the power to protect themselves from subsequent threats. The photographs produced for the Commission will go on be previewed at Les Rencontres d’Arles in July 2013 and will then be shown at Somerset House, London, in October 2013.