A Triumphant Return to the Grand Palais
From November 13 to 16, 2025, Paris Photo celebrates its 28th edition with 222 exhibitors from 33 countries. Under the direction of Florence Bourgeois and Anna Planas, the fair asserts itself as the world’s leading event for photography and the image. Between history and avant-garde, it offers a panorama where memory, vision, and innovation engage in constant dialogue.
Five Movements of Vision
The fair unfolds through five sectors: Main, Voices, Digital, Emergence, and Publishers.
In the Main sector, established masters meet contemporary explorers of the medium: Sophie Ristelhueber presents a monumental 36-meter-long installation, while Adrian Sauer questions the materiality of the image.
Curators Devika Singh and Nadine Wietlisbach infuse Voices with a reflection on landscape and kinship — two themes that weave photography into the fabric of the real.
When the Image Becomes Data
Curated by Nina Roehrs, the Digital sector explores the era of augmented reality: artists such as Kevin Abosch and Cole Sternberg (for the Giga – UNICEF project) investigate connectivity and digital memory.
Here, photography expands — it becomes data, trace, and consciousness.
Emerging Talents and Transmission
On the balconies of the Grand Palais, the Emergence sector unveils twenty artists of the new generation: Marine Lanier, Atong Atem, Camila Falquez, and Sylvie Bonnot among them.
French artist Marine Lanier receives the 2025 Maison Ruinart Prize for her series Alchimia, a poetic tale about life and the cycles of nature.
This same spirit of transmission resonates in Le Labo, a life-size model of an analog laboratory, and in the Cnap exhibition Faire Familles / Making Families, dedicated to the metamorphoses of kinship.
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Elles × Paris Photo: The Power of the Female Gaze
Directed this year by Devrim Bayar, the Elles × Paris Photo program examines the relationship between figure and setting, presence and erasure.
Since its launch in 2018, the share of women photographers has risen from 20% to 39% in seven years — a tangible, vital evolution in a visual world long shaped by the male gaze.
Memory Under Pressure: The Last Photo
Presented for the first time in Europe, The Last Photo — the collection of Estrellita B. Brodsky — brings together more than sixty Latin American works, from Diane Arbus to Vik Muniz.
This manifesto-exhibition symbolically marks the end of the analog era and opens a reflection on the contemporary instability of the image — now fluid, replicated, shared, sometimes erased.
A World of Photography
More than a fair, Paris Photo 2025 is a laboratory of vision.
Beneath the glass roof of the Grand Palais, the image ceases to be a mere trace: it becomes a critical and universal language, a shifting mirror of a world in search of meaning.
Between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the virtual, photography here reclaims its true vocation: to illuminate, to connect, to think.
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FAQ Paris Photo 2025 (dates, artists, practical information)
Paris Photo is the largest international fair dedicated to photography and contemporary image-making. Each year, it brings together galleries, publishers, and artists from around the world at the Grand Palais. In 2025, the event celebrates its 28th edition, featuring 222 exhibitors from 33 countries.
The 2025 edition will be held from November 13 to 16, 2025, at the Grand Palais in Paris. This long-awaited return follows several years of renovation, reopening in a renewed space where historic galleries and emerging scenes converge.
Among the highlights:
Sophie Ristelhueber, winner of the Hasselblad Award, with a monumental installation;
Marine Lanier, recipient of the 2025 Maison Ruinart Prize, for her poetic series Alchimia;
The exhibition The Last Photo, from the Estrellita B. Brodsky Collection;
The Voices and Elles × Paris Photo programs, celebrating diversity and the role of women in contemporary creation.
Because this edition shines a light on photography in all its dimensions — analog, digital, experimental, social, and political.
Beneath the glass roof of the Grand Palais, Paris Photo 2025 is more than a fair: it is a laboratory of ideas, a place of transmission and critical reflection on our world.
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