Paris Photo

Paris Photo is an annual international art fair dedicated to photography. Founded in 1997, Paris Photo is held in November at the Grand Palais exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement in Paris.
The event, for photography collectors, professionals, artists, and enthusiasts, offers a selection of photo-based artworks alongside a public programme of exhibitions, prizes, artists signature sessions and talks. The fair brings together galleries and book dealers showing vintage and modern works to contemporary creations, as well as rare and limited editions, and book releases.
The Fair currently presents four exhibitor sectors: the main gallery sector with solo and group shows and thematic projects, the Prismes sector devoted to large-format, series and installation works, the video sector with moving images, and the Book sector with publishers and dealers.
History.
Founded in 1997, Paris Photo presented 53 galleries for its first edition at the Carrousel du Louvre. The Fair was acquired by Reed expositions France in 2001 and relocated to the Grand Palais in 2011.
In 2006, public attendance was 40,000. In 2017, over 64,500 visitors attended over the course of the 5 days of the fair.
Florence Bourgeois is its current director alongside Christopher Wiesner, Artistic Director. She was preceded by Julien Frydman (2011–2015), Guillaume Piens (2008–2010), Valerie Foujerole (2005–2007) and Rik Gadella (1997–2004).
Reed Exhibitions also organised two sister editions of Paris Photo: Paris Photo Los Angeles from 2013 through 2015 at the Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood and Photo London at Old Billings Gate in 2007. The inaugural edition in New York City was postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Work was instead shown online.
The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
Initiated in November 2012 by Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo, The PhotoBook Awards has three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year.
After a call for submissions, a shortlist is selected by a preliminary jury. The shortlisted books are exhibited at Paris Photo and profiled in "The PhotoBook Review", Aperture's biannual publication dedicated to the photobook that is released at Paris Photo and distributed with "Aperture" magazine. A final jury announces the three category winners at the Fair. The winner for the First PhotoBook category receives a $10,000 prize. The winners of the other two categories each receive a commemorative award.
2016 Award Winners
2017 Award winners
Initiatives.
Carte Blanche – Students
In 2017, Paris Photo launched Carte Blanche – Students in partnership with Picto Foundation and Gares & Connexions, in promotion of emerging talent within European schools for photography and the visual arts. Four people were selected by an international jury, then invited to present their work to Paris Photo audiences at the Grand Palais and as part of an installation at Paris Gare du Nord train station.