From 13 to 16 November 2025, the world’s leading photography-fair, Paris Photo, returns under the glass dome of the Grand Palais in Paris, celebrating its 28th edition.
This year’s edition emphasises the breadth of the medium: large-scale projects, emerging voices, digital experimentation, and photo-book culture all find space. The fair is divided into five distinct sectors: Main (major galleries), Publishing, Emergence (new voices), Digital, and Voices (curatorial thematic).
Paris Photo 2025 offers a rich landscape: from the city-streets of Tokyo and New York (Michael Hoppen) to major historical figures (Pace Gallery), from thematic conceptual work (Bildhalle) to the dialogues that frame photography’s future.
The inclusion of over 200 exhibitors makes planning essential. Our advice: choose a few booths to go deep, rather than trying to cover everything superficially.
Beyond the galleries, the fair’s programme of talks, panels and seminars is particularly strong this year. The “Conversations” series offers one-hour sessions each day with artists, curators, thinkers. Topics include AI in photography (“AI Agents as Artists”), film-screenings (e.g., Clément Cogitore’s Ferdinandea), and an open seminar at the Sorbonne led by Michel Poivert and his master’s students.
Richard Learoyd. PACE Gallery
Nanna Hänninen. Persons Projects
Michael Kenna. Galerie Camera Obscura
Zanele Muholi. Yancey Richardson
The fair has sharpened its focus across sectors and strengthened its curatorial identity, confirming its status as the world’s most vital meeting point for photography and a global cultural-node beyond trends. This underscores the need to maintain critical depth amid growth, to find commercial balance while serving as a serious platform for curatorial discovery and institutional acquisition.