Paris Photo 2025: Global Photography at the Grand Palais

From November 13 to 16, 2025, the Grand Palais in Paris will host the 28th edition of Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair dedicated to photography.
This year’s event promises to be more diverse, international, and ambitious than ever, confirming Paris as the beating heart of the photographic world.

Bringing together 224 exhibitors — including 183 galleries and 41 publishers from 33 countries, with 59 new participants — Paris Photo 2025 reaffirms its mission to showcase a rich and demanding vision of global photography.

“This 28th edition of Paris Photo confirms our desire to offer the market a demanding and open artistic vision. More assertive, more diverse, more international, this edition unites galleries and artists from all continents, confirming Paris’s central role as a place of visibility, reflection, and promotion of the medium.”
— Florence Bourgeois, Director of Paris Photo

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A Global Platform for the Art of Photography

Since its creation in 1997, Paris Photo has become a unique platform for discovery, exchange, and reflection around the photographic image.
Each edition highlights the diversity of photographic practices — from historical works to contemporary creations, digital experimentation, and art book publishing.

As a true crossroads for artists, collectors, institutions, and enthusiasts, Paris Photo offers a comprehensive panorama of international photography, combining heritage and innovation, artistic dialogue and critical engagement.

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Main Sector and Voices: The Dialogue of Visions

At the heart of the Grand Palais, the Main Sector features 138 galleries, reflecting the vitality and scope of the international photography market.
Newcomers include Eva Presenhuber (Zurich, Vienna, New York), Peter Kilchmann (Zurich), Richard Saltoun (London), Rose Gallery (Los Angeles), Papillon (Paris), and Poggi (Paris).
They join exhibitors from the Middle East and South Asia such as Vadehra Art (New Delhi), Ayyam Gallery (Dubai), and Hafez Gallery (Jeddah), further broadening the fair’s global perspective.

Longtime exhibitors like Pace (New York, London, Seoul), Fraenkel (San Francisco), Thomas Zander (Cologne), Taka Ishii (Tokyo), Christian Berst (Paris), Luisotti (Los Angeles), MEM (Tokyo), and Yancey Richardson (New York) reaffirm their commitment to the fair.
The exhibition path will feature monumental Prismes projects by Poggi (Paris) and Klemm’s (Berlin), dedicated to large-scale photographic installations.

The Voices sector, curated by Nadine Wietlisbach (Fotomuseum Winterthur) and Devika Singh (art historian), will focus on two intertwined themes:

• The relationship between photographer and subject, and

• The landscape as a social, political, ecological, and personal space.

Through these curatorial lenses, Voices invites visitors to reimagine photography as a field of exchange, emotion, and critical thought.

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Digital Sector: Rethinking the Image in the Virtual Era

Curated by Nina Roehrs, the Digital Sector strengthens its presence for a third consecutive year, featuring 13 exhibitors exploring the intersections of photography and technology.

Among them: Heft (New York), Nagel Draxler (Berlin, Cologne, Meseberg), and Office Impart (Berlin), each presenting innovative projects that question the materiality and perception of images in the digital age.
Rolf Art (Buenos Aires) and Anita Beckers (Frankfurt), also part of the Main Sector, are showcasing distinct digital works, underlining the fair’s commitment to new creative formats and virtual expressions.

Here, photography meets artificial intelligence, immersive installation, and blockchain — a space where technology becomes both a creative tool and a philosophical question about the future of images.

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Emergence Sector: Spotlight on the Next Generation

Located on the Grand Palais’s upper floor, the Emergence Sector presents 20 projects by galleries committed to supporting new voices and visual languages.

Featured artists include Bérangère Fromont (Bacqueville, Lille), Suwon Lee (Sorondo Projects, Barcelona), Mia Weiner (Homecoming, Amsterdam), Atong Atem (Mars Gallery, Amsterdam), and Louis Porter (Chiquita Room, Barcelona).
Their work — spanning South Sudan, Venezuela, and Mexico — illustrates a vibrant and diverse global scene, exploring identity, ecology, and memory through photography.

This section reaffirms Paris Photo’s mission to reveal tomorrow’s talents and to act as a platform of visibility for emerging artists on an international stage.

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Editions Sector: The Photography of the Page

Photography also lives through the printed page.
The Editions Sector, gathering 41 publishing houses, celebrates the art of the photographic book — a medium that continues to shape both artistic and intellectual discourse.

Visitors will discover major names such as RVB Books (Paris), TBW Books (Oakland), and RM (Mexico, Barcelona), as well as new participants Witty Books (Turin), Artpaper Editions (Brussels), and Perimeter Editions (Melbourne).

From monographs to experimental publications, this sector highlights the book as a space of creation, reflection, and visual storytelling.

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Paris Photo: A Living Observatory of the Medium

More than a fair, Paris Photo has become a living observatory of photography worldwide — a space where images are questioned, celebrated, and redefined.
Each sector contributes to a global dialogue between art and technology, tradition and experimentation, past and present.

Between renowned masters and emerging voices, Paris Photo 2025 offers a portrait of photography as a living, evolving language — both mirror and memory of our time.

A must-see event where photography is not only seen but also thought, shared, and reinvented.

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Practical Information

📅 Dates: November 13–16, 2025
📍 Venue: Grand Palais, Paris
👥 Exhibitors: 224 (183 galleries, 41 publishers, 33 countries, 59 new participants)
🎓 Director: Florence Bourgeois
🌐 Official website: www.parisphoto.com

©2025 – IMPACT EUROPEAN

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