2019 Public Programming

Paris Photo, the largest international art fair dedicated to photography and photo-based art opens this week in Paris at the historic Grand Palais. Don’t miss the week where the art world comes together in celebration of the medium with 5 exhibitor sectors and an extensive public program of exhibitions, conversations, awards, book signings and more.

Preview the 213 exhibitors and the 5 sectors here.

Discover the Public Program here.

Film Sector
Programming for the 3rd edition of the Film sector presents an exploration of the intimate and diverse relationship between photography and moving image with a series of 27 films by artists and photographers spanning genres including documentary and fiction and the manipulation of the image. From Koudelka, Daido Moriyama, Dali’s protégé Steven Arnold, Shirin Neshat, Elsa & Johanna to Finnish filmmakers Heikki Aho et Björn Soldan among others. Curated by Matthieu Orléan (La Cinémathèque française) and Pascale Cassagnau (Cnap), the Film sector is presented daily at mk2

Grand Palais cinema and freely accessible to all Paris Photo ticket-holders.

See the Film sector program here.

Platform Conversation Series
This year, the Platform conversation series brings together a marathon list of key figures in the field touching on diverse themes in art from architecture and climate change, social politics and gender, emerging art, as well as geographic and technical visions with: Ayana V. Jackson, David Campany, Fannie Escoulen, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Hélène Binet, Jim Goldberg, Marta Gili, Josef Koudelka, Mari Katayama, Meghann Riepenhoff, Ming Smith, Nate Lewis, Samuel Fosso, Simon Baker, Tyler Mitchell, Victor Burgin, Zanele Muholi, among many others.

Conversations run daily in the Grand Palais auditorium and are presented in both French and English with simultaneous translation available.

See the Platform Conversation program here.

The Artist Talks
For more intimate short-format discussions focusing on editorial projects, the Artist Talks presented by The Eyes Magazine welcome 37 artists including Bruce Gilden, Joel Meyerowitz, Joel Sternfeld, Martin Parr, Massimo Vitali, Roger Ballen, Tom Wood, Valerie Belin, our Carte Blanche Students laureates, among others.

The Artist Talks are presented 3 times daily on the Grand Palais balcony in either French or English.

See the Artist Talks Program here

Book signings
This year more than 330 book signings with today’s leading artists are organized at the fair. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet your favorite artists and purchase books from the world’s leading photobook publishers: Artists include Sophie Calle, Pieter Hugo, Susan Meiselas, William Klein, Sabine Weiss, and so many more.

See the Book Signing Program here.

The Photobook Awards
And don’t miss the announcement of the winners of the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Friday, November 8 at 1pm at Paris Photo (book sector).

See the Short-listed titles presented at the Fair

Special exhibitions
This year’s special exhibitions include the private collection exhibition Astrid Ullens De Schooten, Fragments presented by Fondation A-Stitching, Brussels with the support of J.P. Morgan, Collective identity with works from the J.P.Morgan Chase Art Collection, The BMW Artist Residency with Emeric Lhuisset, Carbon’s Casualties by The New York Times, The Maison Ruinart Award, Aho & Soldan Photo and Film Foundation, Huawei Next-Image Awards, Seriously Convivial by Pernod Ricard, The Pink Ribbon Photo Award by Estée Lauder and the Paris Photo Carte Blanche Students presented with Picto Foundation and SNCF Gares et Connexions.