Paris Photo 2025

Paris Photo offers a cultural program that makes it the unmissable gathering for market players: a landmark exhibition of a private collection, thought-provoking conversations, the Elles × Paris Photo program, book signings, and more.

Overview

This year, the fair brings together 179 galleries and 43 publishers from 33 countries, including 60 first-time participants and returns.

Paris Photo is pleased to announce The Last Photo, a selection of works from the collection of Estrellita B. Brodsky, one of the most influential collectors in the field of Latin American art. With over 1,000 works in a broad range of media, Brodsky’s collection is distinguished for its scholarly approach, a reflection of its owner’s trajectory as an art historian and Latin American art specialist. 

The first significant presentation of Brodsky’s collection in Europe, The Last Photo will feature a selection of more than 60 works dating from the 1940s to the present, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy and Marie Perennès. Occupying the South-East Gallery of the Grand Palais, the exhibition will include artists such as Diane Arbus, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Paz Errázuriz, Fernell Franco, Leo Matiz, Vik Muñiz as well as younger figures, such as Regina Galindo, Tania Franco Klein, and Pablo López Luz. The exhibition takes its title from a photograph by Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó in which she invited photographers to take a final roll of film before sealing their lenses with ink. This quiet yet powerful gesture marks a symbolic end to analog photography and opens space to consider how the photographic image, once a fixed and material object, has become increasingly unstable—easily replicated, shared, or erased. In this shift, questions emerge: What is a photograph today? What does it mean to fix an image, to hold onto a moment, to make something visible? Bringing together traditional photography as well as processes such as silkscreen prints, Xerox, video and other forms of mechanical reproduction, the exhibition considers the ever-shifting nature of photography as a medium in flux—one that both reflects and complicates our understanding of truth, memory, and representation.

For this new edition, the Cnap presents a selection of five artists emblematic of its policy of enriching the national collections. The exhibition Faire Familles - Making Families features Carolle Bénitah, Donna Gottschalk, Nhu Xuan Hua, Yveline Loiseur, and Vasantha Yogananthan, five photographers whose works have recently entered the collection. Their works are brought together around the idea of family, viewed through the lens of social changes and the politics of intimacy. Families endured, chosen, of the heart, lived, or imagined are represented by the artists, both through the marks of attachment and the codes of vernacular photography. The exhibition also addresses the question of migration, exile, and their effects on the family and its memory—transmitted, lost, or reconstructed. Bonds between individuals, differences and similarities are explored in a context where the institution of the family is reconsidered through various forms of belonging.

The Book Talks, organized this year in collaboration with Printed Matter, celebrate photo books and their authors through roundtable discussions and 30-minute short sessions focused on new publications, offering a dynamic overview of contemporary editorial creativity. Curator Devrim Bayar has been invited to create the Elles × Paris Photo path dedicated to women artists, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture. Since it was created in 2018, Elles x Paris Photo programme has increased the representation of women artists at the fair from 20% to 38%. Devrim Bayar is currently senior curator of the KANAL – Centre Pompidou, a new museum of modern and contemporary art spanning 35,000 m² in Brussels which is scheduled to open in 2026. 

Additionally, each year, Paris Photo presents a series of Conversations held over the four days of the fair, bringing together artists, curators, critics, and other leading figures from the art world. In 2025, the program includes a conversation with Sophie Ristelhueber, as well as an open seminar at the Sorbonne led by Michel Poivert with his Master’s students. Carmen Winant and Martine Gutierrez will offer two readings-performances. A preview screening of the film Ferdinandea by Clément Cogitore is also scheduled. In addition, a discussion on the theme AI Agents as Artists will focus on the challenges of artificial intelligence in artistic creation. The one-hour-long conversations will be held in the auditorium of the Grand Palais, four times a day.

Since 2012, the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards have celebrated and honored the essential role of the photobook in the dissemination and evolution of photography. Over the years, the award has become a leading reference in the field of publishing and recognizes excellence in three categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year. The winners of this new edition will be announced during the fair on Friday 14 November, 3pm, on the Balcon de l’Horloge.

The event also provides a dedicated space for artists and the public to meet through an extensive book signing program. More than 400 photographers, authors, and artists participate in the Book Sector, making it a vibrant hub for exchange, discovery, and engagement with the photo book.

Plus, Paris Photo develops an educational project designed to introduce the public to the practices and skills involved in photography. Conceived as an immersive experience accessible to all, it highlights both the technical and creative aspects of the medium, while providing a dedicated space for learning and exchange.