Five artists to watch from Paris Photo 2024

The 2024 edition of Paris Photo saw the top photography art fair return to the Grand Palais following a three-year, €466m renovation by Chatillon Architectes. Paris Photo has taken place every year since 1997, making it the longest-running international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium. Just under 200 exhibiting galleries from around the world took part, alongside publishers offering new books and rare editions. A series of insightful talks activated the fair further, as well as extensive institutional and commercial partnerships across the city. By the end of a busy and inspiring week, Paris’ reputation as the home of European photography had been cemented once again.

Most importantly, the wide-ranging presentation of artists from around the world led to many exciting discoveries. Here are FLO’s top five picks of artists to watch in 2025.

Lebohang Kganye

Exhibited by Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach and in the group exhibition Voices: Liberated Bodies, curated by Azu Nwagbogu

Lebohang Kganye, Time Needed to Hand Over Power, 2023, Diorama (lightbox): mixed media photographic installation. 68 x 80 x 50 cm, 26 3/4 x 31 1/2 x 19 3/4 in, Edition of 5 + 2AP.

Lebohang Kganye (South Africa, b.1990) is a trailblazing artist whose work extends the traditional photographic medium in an intricate, sculptural manner. Her practice primarily challenges and reclaims historically oppressive narratives, reimagining postcolonial histories. Kganye’s series Two Stories of (Hi)Stories (2023) were presented at Paris Photo, in which the artist places herself into different historical roles within three-dimensional cut-out compositions, exploring the contested nature of memory.

Kganye has received a number of major international accolades in recent years, including winning the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2024. This year, she will feature in the major exhibition New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging at MoMA and the travelling exhibition As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, to name a few.

Website: prvbgallery.com Instagram: @lebohang_kganye

Lisa Jahovic 

Exhibited by Flowers Gallery

Lisa Jahovic, Iron, 2023, Archival pigment print, 120 x 96 cm 47 1/4 x 37 3/4 in,120.5 x 96.5 cm (framed),Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.

Multi-disciplinary artist Lisa Jahovic (UK, b.1985)’s practice encompasses photography, film and sculpture. As both an artist and sought-after editorial photographer, Jahovic’s works often question the performative nature of the everyday and explore anthropomorphism. She has developed a signature, surreal aesthetic that simultaneously subverts and delights, positioning her as a unique voice in contemporary photography.

In a series of striking artworks displayed at Paris Photo, mundane household objects from irons to cheese graters are enchantingly transformed and unexpectedly altered through the addition of holes. These negative spaces render the objects at once non-functional, absurd and fascinating. Carefully captured by Jahovic in nuanced shades of grey, each subject acquires a poetic presence and prompts the viewer into a reconsideration of their own everyday reality.

Website: flowersgallery.com Instagram: @lisa_jahovic

Hélène Amouzou

Exhibited by Galerie Carole Kvasnevski in the Emergence sector

Autoportrait, Molenbeek.(2011), Photographie argentique, noir et blanc, papier Ilford Mulgrade FB Warmtone Glossy, 24 x 30.5 cm

A powerful and poignant series by Togolese-born, Belgium-based artist Hélène Amouzou was exhibited in the fair’s Emergence sector, considering issues of asylum, identity and erasure. Ghostly self-portraits document Amouzou among suitcases and peeling wallpaper, engaged in long-term acts of waiting and in-betweenness. 

The photographs draw on the decades-long experience of Amouzou and her family seeking political asylum throughout the 1990s and 2000s.  Her work both exposes and defies the dehumanising and bureaucratic nature of many migrants’ experiences, bringing to light important stories in a manner that is simultaneously personal and universal. In 2025, Amouzou’s first public art commission in the UK opens at The Line in London’s Royal Docks, coinciding with Refugee Week. 

Website: galeriecarolekvasnevski.com Instagram: @helene.amouzou

Deborah Turbeville

Exhibited by Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Deborah Turbeville, Américaine, 1932–2013, Asser Levy Bathhouse (“Bathhouse,” New York, New York), 1975, Épreuve à la gélatine argentique, Gelatin silver print. 8.5 x 12.5 cm (encadré : 27.5 x 22.5 cm), 3 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches (framed : 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches), DT010. © All rights reserved to the Estate of Deborah Turbeville

Trailblazing American photographer Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013) is receiving a wave of overdue institutional and commercial attention. Turbeville’s timeless work was revolutionary in the male-dominated world of fashion photography in the 1970s, and her talents were recognised by major publications and designers. Deeply cinematic in nature, her images were often shot in haunting locations and her subjects captured in unexpected poses and from unfamiliar angles. 

Often, Turbeville would often cut up, scratch, reassemble and annotate her works, juxtaposing images in a playful and countercultural manner. This aspect of her practice was recently celebrated by the Photographer’s Gallery in London, made possible by the ongoing project of the MUUS Collection to preserve and promote the artist’s extensive archive.

Website: galeriegaillard.com

Fred Herzog

Exhibited by Equinox Gallery

Herzog, Curtains, 1972, Archival pigment print, Edition of 20. © Estate of Fred Herzog/Equinox gallery

Ulrich “Fred” Herzog was a visionary artist who embraced the early potential of colour photography. Emigrating to Canada from Germany after World War II, his vibrant body of work from the 1950s and 1960s laid the groundwork for the New Color movement of the 1970s. 

Herzog produced over 100,000 images, primarily interested in urban life, working class neigbourhoods and immigrant populations. However, he worked exclusively with Kodachrome slide film, a colour-rich format which was notoriously difficult to replicate in print form. This only became possible with the advancements in printing technology in the mid-1970s. His first major exhibition took place in 2007 at the Vancouver Art Gallery when he was 76, and works from his extensive catalogue continue to be exhibited for the first time today.

Website: https://www.equinoxgallery.com

These highlighted artists reflect the international, innovative spirit of Paris Photo, a truly unmissable event in the global photography calendar which returns to the Grand Palais for its 28th edition from the 13 - 16 November 2025 (VIP Preview: 12 November 2025).

 Review by Sofia Carreira-Wham