The Paris Photo team is made up of professionals and experts in photography, the art world, and related disciplines, all driven by a common ambition: to make each edition the international meeting place for the photography market. Key members of the team include Director Florence Bourgeois and Artistic Director Anna Planas. We have their greeting message for PARIS PHOTO 2024 for you here on GoSee.News:

“For its 27th edition, Paris Photo is returning to the Grand Palais with a rich program that reflects the vitality and diversity of the photography world. We wanted to create a fair that celebrates renowned photographers while fostering a dialogue between historic works and contemporary practices.

Among the highlights is the new Voices section, curated by three international curators: Elena Navarro, Azu Nwagbogu, and Sonia Voss, which aims to offer fresh perspectives on the medium.

The year 2024 marks the centenary of Surrealism, a movement that profoundly transformed both art and photography. To celebrate this occasion, we have given American director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch carte blanche to create a new display.

A further centenary celebrated this year is that of Robert Frank. Pace is devoting a solo show to him at the opening of Paris Photo. Thomas Zander is exploring his influence on future generations, while Steidl is spotlighting Robert Frank’s books. Other major figures include Hiroshi Sugimoto at Fraenkel Gallery and Charlotte Perriand at the gallery M77 in Milan, as well as Richard Avedon and Tyler Mitchell at Gagosian.

The Prismes section provides an immersive experience amid monumental works, featuring projects such as August Sander’s series ‘People from the Twentieth Century’, presented for the first time in Europe, along with Anton Kusters’ installation focusing on memory and the concentration camps. These works challenge our understanding of history and the archive.

This edition of the fair also emphasizes human connections, featuring works that explore themes of friendship, intimacy, and perception of the body. The self-portraits of Boris Mikhaïlov and Marie Katayama, presented by Suzanne Tarasieve, alongside the archive of Tee A. Corinne, documenting lesbian communities of the 1970s, invite viewers to reflect on identity and collective memory. Carmen Winant and Bérangère Fromont explore these same themes through collages and photographs that blend the personal with the universal.

The 2024 edition is distinguished by its experimental approach, featuring artists who push the boundaries of image-making and explore new techniques, such as Caroline Corbasson at Dilecta, Miguel Angel Tornero at Juan Silio Gallery, and Alina Frieske in the Digital section at Fabienne Levy.

We are also presenting a new exhibition of Lithuanian photography, drawn from the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Centre Pompidou, and the Lithuanian Photographers Association. Ranging from iconic photographers of the Soviet era to more recent works, ‘The Forms of Things’, ‘The Forms of Skulls’, and ‘The Forms of Love’ resonate strongly with contemporary issues.

We look forward to seeing you at the Grand Palais from 7 to 10 November 2024 and discovering this new edition together.”


PARIS PHOTO 2024 – 7 through 10 November 2024. Grand Palais, Paris. Thursday to Sunday, 9 AM to 6 PM (CET), including the weekends of 2-3 and 9-10 November 2024. 

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The 39th edition of the International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories - Hyères will take place from Thursday, 10 October through Sunday, 13 October 2024 at Villa Noailles. The exhibitions will be open to the public until 12 January 2025. Attending the event for GoSee.News will be Rolf Scheider, photography enthusiast.

Since 1986, the festival has been promoting and supporting young international fashion designers, offering a competition for emerging photographers since 1997 and a competition for new creators of accessories since 2016. The festival is considered the oldest competition for young fashion designers in the world.

The Villa Noailles, the original core structure of which was built between 1923 and 1925 in the Var department of Hyères, is the work of architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, with the support of local architect Léon David, particularly for the extensions and additions that were made up until 1933. It is located on one and a half hectares of land, 4 km from the sea, on the slopes of the Casteu hill overlooking the town of Hyères.

The festival, founded and directed by Jean-Pierre Blanc, is chaired by Pascale Mussard.
 
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Les Rencontres d’Arles is the largest photography festival in France and an essential event for photography aficionados worldwide. From 1 July through 29 September 2024, the historical town of Arles will be transformed into a vibrant hotspot for photo art. With more than 100,000 visitors at each edition, the festival is a visitor magnet. Like every year, Rolf Scheider will be there to report for GoSee from the opening week.

Waiting for visitors to discover are more than forty exhibitions of renowned photographers from all corners of the globe in various locations throughout the city. The overarching theme this year is ‘BENEATH THE SURFACE’. Tremors and turmoil, spirits, traces, and readings are all among the perspectives that form the foundation of the 2024 edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles. Photographers, artists and curators reveal their visions and stories in endless redefinition. Whether marginal or firmly established in the center, the narratives lead to multiple, divergent paths, all emanating from faults in a porous surface: each intertwining, superimposing and overlapping. It’s an exciting time – as this ensemble opens a plurality of itineraries to pursue.

The WOMEN IN MOTION AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY will be presented to ISHIUCHI MIYAKO. Through a presentation of intimate scenes, Ishiuchi Miyako invites viewers to examine their own perceptions of femininity and womanhood.

The exhibition ‘I’m So Happy You Are Here – Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now’ is a collection of photographs from 25 intergenerational artists. It grants an exciting glimpse at Japan and Japanese photography from different perspectives – encouraging a more nuanced and expansive conversation about the contributions of Japanese women to photography as a medium.

Photographer Gauri Gill, the winner of the 10th Prix Pictet, presents her winning series ‘Notes from the Desert’ within the context of her ongoing projects from rural India.

The key visual is from Cristina De Middel’s series ‘Journey to the Center’ that mimics the atmosphere and structure of the Jules Verne novel ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ – portraying the migration route from Central America across Mexico as a heroic and daring journey and not as an act of fleeing.

For further information, stop by the official website of Les Rencontres d’Arles: rencontres-arles.com
 
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