Photography exhibitions to see during Paris Photo 2026
Paris Photo is on at the Grand Palais this week, and the city has put on its biggest photography programme of the year around it, in the year of the bicentenary of the medium. This guide highlights our pick of the photographers whose work is on across the city during the fair, from Irving Penn, Raymond Depardon, James Barnor, Susan Meiselas and Paul Kodjo. At the fair itself there are two exhibitions to see alongside the galleries, the Prix Pictet's first presentation at Paris Photo and 'Révéler', drawn from the Centre Pompidou's photography collection.
Raymond Depardon: La France
Raymond Depardon | La France Bellecombe, Jura department, Franche-Comte region. 2006. © Raymond Depardon | Magnum Photos
#FLODown: Gallery 3 of the Bourse de Commerce has been given over to Depardon's series on France, shown as part of Remember Me, the museum's exhibition marking two hundred years of photography. A co-founder of the Gamma agency and a member of Magnum Photos, Depardon made his name in photojournalism before turning to this body of work, made across the country between 2004 and 2010. He travelled with a large-format camera, photographing landscapes, shop fronts, bars and tabacs in small towns away from the main roads. The pictures are precise and also warm, each one holding a place most people pass through without stopping. It is one of two single-photographer presentations within Remember Me, alongside the installation of more than 400 photographs by Irving Penn.
Date: until 25 January 2027. Location: Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, 2 rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris. Price: 15 euros, 10 reduced. Book now.
James Barnor in The Harvest Season
James Barnor in The Harvest Season on show at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. Image credit MTotoe. Courtesy of FLO London.
#FLODown: The Ghanaian photographer, now 97, is one of nine artists invited by Ibrahim Mahama into his exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, where Barnor has reopened his Ever Young studio. Shown with it are vintage prints and albums documenting the years after Ghana's independence, along with his work as a portraitist and as a fashion photographer. The Fondation Cartier and the RATP have also put a selection of his photographs in the alcoves of the galerie Valois at Place Colette, as 'Le Style dans le viseur', until 31 March 2027.
Date: 22 October 2026 - 28 February 2027. Location: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2 place du Palais-Royal, 75001 Paris. Price: 15 euros, 10 reduced. Book now.
Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua, History, Memory
Junior high school students, Managua, Nicaragua, 1978. Original color chrome in slide mount.
#FLODown: The American photographer's work on Nicaragua, made during and after the 1979 revolution and on her returns to the country since. Meiselas has spent decades going back to the same places and the same people, and the exhibition looks at how the images have been used, remade and remembered in the years since they were taken.
Date: 21 October 2026 - 7 March 2027. Location: Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 79 rue des Archives, 75003 Paris. Price: 10 euros, 6 reduced, free under 18. Book now.
Martine Franck: Images, presse et luttes féministes
Martine Franck, Parade on 5th Avenue, "Women’s March for Equality", New York, United States, 1971
#FLODown: A member of Magnum Photos and a co-founder of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Franck photographed for the press from the 1960s onwards and was closely involved with the feminist movement. The exhibition is focused on that part of her work, the commissions, the publications her pictures appeared in and the campaigns she photographed. It is on in the same building as the Meiselas, so the two can be seen in one visit.
Date: 21 October 2026 - 7 March 2027. Location: Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 79 rue des Archives, 75003 Paris. Price: 10 euros, 6 reduced, free under 18. Book now.
Irving Penn: Penn & Fashion
Irving Penn, Naomi Sims in Scarf, New York, c. 1969. Collection The Irving Penn Foundation, New York © The Irving Penn Foundation.
#FLODown: More than sixty years of Irving Penn's fashion photography, with loans from the Irving Penn Foundation and the Miyake Issey Foundation. Penn photographed for Vogue from the 1940s and worked with Issey Miyake for more than a decade, and the exhibition is focused on how he changed what a fashion photograph could look like. This is the second Penn exhibition in Paris this autumn, alongside the installation of more than 400 of his photographs at the Bourse de Commerce.
Date: until 17 January 2027. Location: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 5/7 rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris. Price: from 14 euros. Book now.
Paul Kodjo: Photoromance
Paul Kodjo, « Deux femmes, un homme » , photoroman,1971. © Paul Kodjo / Les Rencontres du Sud.
#FLODown: The first major solo exhibition in France of the Ivorian photographer, who photographed Côte d'Ivoire as it was changing through the 1970s, the love stories and the nights of Abidjan. The exhibition brings together photographs from his photo novels, sequences of staged pictures with captions and dialogue, alongside a wider body of work, much of it never shown before. His images also record the clothes and the social life of the period. Curated by Amandine Nana and co-produced with the Rencontres d'Arles.
Date: 21 October 2026 - 14 February 2027. Location: Palais de Tokyo, 13 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris. Price: 13 euros, 9 reduced, free under 18. Book now.
Rafael Pavarotti: photographe
Rafael Pavarotti - Anok Yai dans la robe Douche Chloé par Karl Lagerfeld (1983). Mai 2023 © Rafael Pavarotti.
#FLODown: The first French showing of the Brazilian fashion photographer, with more than 200 prints shown alongside photographs from the museum's own collection. Pavarotti has shot for the major fashion titles and for houses including Chloé, and his portraits have made him one of the most recognisable image-makers working in fashion now.
Date: 2 October 2026 - 2 May 2027. Location: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris. Price: 15 euros, 10 reduced, free under 26. Book now.
Gustave Le Gray: peintre et photographe
Gustave Le Gray, Auguste Mestral, Catalans posant dans le cloître de Sainte-Marie d'Arles-sur-Tech, 1851 Achat, 2026. © Musée d'Orsay, dist. GrandPalaisRmn
#FLODown: A retrospective of the painter who became one of the early technical innovators of photography, including recent acquisitions shown for the first time. Le Gray trained as a painter before turning to the new medium in the 1840s, and his seascapes and landscapes are among the most reproduced images of the nineteenth century.
Date: 10 November 2026 - 7 February 2027. Location: Musée d'Orsay, esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007 Paris. Price: 16 euros online, 14 at the museum, 11 reduced, 12 online for the Thursday late opening from 6pm. Book now.
Alfredo Jaar and Valérie Belin
Alfredo Jaar, The End (GSL_a), 2025, from the series The End, 2025
#FLODown: The Prix Pictet, the award for photography and sustainability, is holding its first exhibition at Paris Photo, with two winning series shown in dialogue. Alfredo Jaar's 'The End' won the most recent cycle, Storm, in 2025, and documents the Great Salt Lake in Utah, an ecosystem for millions of migratory birds that is drying out through excessive water extraction. The lake has lost more than 70% of its water so far. Jaar photographs the landscape itself and prints the images small, so we have to look closely, which is a contrast with the large-format work of Valérie Belin, whose series 'Still Life' won the Prix Pictet Disorder in 2015. Belin photographs plastic objects of the kind found in a discount shop anywhere in the world, piled around pale mannequin heads, through the pictorial tradition of still life. Both artists join curator Brandei Estes for a talk on Saturday 14 November at 2pm.
Date: 12 - 15 November 2026. Location: Grand Palais, avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris. Price:Ticket required to enter Paris Photo. Book now.
Centre Pompidou photography collection: Révéler
Andrzej Steinbach, Figure I-II , 2015. Donated by Eleanor and Francis Shen, Amis du Centre Pompidou, 2024. © Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Joseph Banderet © Adagp, Paris.
#FLODown: About a hundred works by some thirty artists from the Centre Pompidou's photography collection are shown at the Grand Palais during the fair, in the year of the bicentenary. The selection has been put together by Florian Ebner and Damarice Amao of the Centre Pompidou with Julie Jones, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and looks at the history of the medium from a contemporary position.
Date: 12 - 15 November 2026. Location: Grand Palais, avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris. Price:Ticket required to enter Paris Photo. Book now.
Nanténé Traoré: pays des merveilles
Nanténé Traoré, you’ll get there / 2025, 2026. © Nanténé Traoré
#FLODown: The first museum solo exhibition by Nanténé Traoré, shown in the MEP Studio, the space on the first floor of the museum given to artists who have not yet had a monographic show in a French institution. Traoré was born in Paris in 1993 and lives and works in Brussels, and works only in analogue, using expired film, negatives altered by hand and surfaces including velvet and Plexiglas. The series here was made in Brittany last summer on expired film from the 1990s, on a return to the coast he went to as a child with his mother, and the exhibition brings together chromogenic prints, prints on velvet and a video.
Date: 30 September - 29 November 2026. Location: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 5/7 rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris. Price: 13 euros, 8 reduced. Book now.
Andrés Barón
Andrés Barón, Silencio, Paris. Image credit MTotoe. Courtesy FLO London.
#FLODown: A solo exhibition at Silencio by the Colombian artist, who is based in Paris and works across film, video and photography, using the two together to question how we read images now, and how they circulate from one medium to the next. Through his videos and photographs he pulls a moment apart, building narratives out of familiar things, the end of a song, a running dog, a glass breaking, often working with people close to him as performers. The exhibition is part of 'Au-delà du cadre', Silencio's Paris Photo week programme curated by Samantha Ozer, five nights of artists' films, talks and performances with Carolyn Drake, Emilija Škarnulytė, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Sarah Brahim and Garush Melkonyan. Barón screens his work and gives a talk on the evening of 12 November.
Date: 10 - 29 November 2026. Location: Silencio, 142 rue Montmartre, 75002 Paris. Price: Inside Silencio club. Find out more.
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