Photo Days is the artsy event not to be missed this autumn in Paris. We look forward to seeing you from November 2 to 30, 2024, to discover the various exhibitions and events organized in Parisian institutions and galleries.
We're delighted to be back again this year for Photo Days, the unmissable event that will set the pace for the end of the year in Paris. From November 2 to 30, 2024, discover the various events organized in the capital and admire as manyworks by international artists. What a program!
For this new and fifth edition, Photo Days continues to reinvent itself. This year, there are several exhibitions, encounters, guided tours and numerous events organized in the various venues participating in the festival. Historical photography, young French and international creations, feminist engagement, documentary photography, fashion, travel, nude or landscape, absurd or real: the works to be discovered have no limits, no rules, other than to please you, to amaze you, to question you, to make you react.
As always, Photo Days and Paris je t'aime - Office de tourisme are awarding a photography Grand Prix to the artists and professional photographers who entered this year's competition. The prize: 15,000 euros, and an exhibition in Paris in 2025 for the winner!
Participating venues and special events to discover during this 2024 edition:
Exhibitions
- Juliette AGNEL
Le Jardin des mystères
Carrousel du Louvre - November 2 - 30
Juliette Agnel's project is based at the Fondation Zinsou in Benin. The foundation's garden contains 4 hectares of unique 4500-year-old vegetation: a reflection of climate change in this part of the world, it features extraordinary plants and flowers, many rare species and medicinal plants. At the same time, recent archaeological digs have unearthed pottery shards dating from the 16th to 18th centuries, telling the story of the region's populations (slave trade, arrival of Europeans, etc.).
Juliette Agnel's work will be in communion with nature and the history of the site. It will be designed specifically for the Carrousel du Louvre: she will present 11 double-sided panels measuring 3x2m, which will be suspended 7m high along the span leading from the Carrousel entrance on rue de Rivoli to the Inverted Pyramid.
- Ariane MICHEL
L'Arlequin Cinéma - November 2 - 30
A video artist, Ariane MICHEL creates films and installations that challenge the way we perceive the world. Beasts, plants, minerals... She invites us to explore non-human territories using the tools of cinema. Manipulating perception, scale and the hierarchy of beings, she involves the viewer in new mental geographies that blur the boundaries of "Nature" and patiently dismantle the anthropocentric relationship to the world that our European civilizations have constructed.
For this emblematic cinema venue, L'Arlequin, Photo Days is giving the artist carte blanche to examine our cinematic heritage. She will create a photo/sound installation in the cinema's bar, and a display on the street, and will propose mini-film sequences that can be screened before cinema screenings, like advertisements.
- Letizia LEFUR
Le Beau Jeu
SPOT 24 - November 2 - 30
Winner 2023 of the Grand Prix Paris Je t'aime × Photo Days
To echo the Olympic Games, which will be held in the capital this year, Letizia Le Fur has chosen to celebrate the "little games": those that intrude into everyday life, often perceived by chance. Fleeting and spontaneous, they bear witness to the lively, dynamic spirit of the city. Le Beau Jeu is an exploration of our intimate and playful relationship with the land. It is inspired by the philosopher Mathieu Triclot, who reminds us that "to play is to become human", a way of living and growing together.
- Fatoumata DIABATÉ
L'homme caméléon
Sorbonne Art Gallery Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne Galerie Soufflot - November 2 - 30
A portrait and social photographer, Fatoumata Diabaté's work focuses primarily on women and the younger generation. The exhibition will feature different series of portraits, all of which have in common that they are based on stories and tales "for the black child", as Senghor put it. On the evening of the opening, we'll be organizing a Photo Studio, which she'll set up in the Galerie Soufflot, providing sets and props. Everyone will be able to have their portrait taken in the same conditions as in the 1950s-1960s, and people will be able to leave with their own personal "black and whites".
- Carline BOURDELAS
The unknown masterpiece
Rotonde Balzac Fondation des Artistes Jardins Salomon de Rothschild - November 2 - 30
Fate, divine will, love, anger, despair and sacrifice are at the heart of Carline Bourdelas' photographic work. This series, about the madness and genius of the "artist", is inspired by Honoré de Balzac's "Unknown Masterpiece". It presents mysterious places like painters' studios, a source of infinite inspiration. Through the skilful use of chiaroscuro, the photographer underlines the creative disorder and obstacles encountered on the path to absolute beauty.
The treatments used in the creative model give the images a timeless, imaginary dimension. Like a set of images written by Honoré de Balzac and interpreted by the photographer to echo his genius.
Portfolio readings
- Portfolio readings
Every year, we organize free portfolio readings for photographers, with the participation of some forty readers. Photographers can thus benefit from professional advice. Photographers and readers are of different nationalities: French, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Japanese.
The readings will take place in 30-minute slots over 4 days, on November 7, 8, 12 and 13.
(Registration open from September)
Events
- Free guided tours of galleries and institutions
Several times a week, we offer a wide range of guided tours of our galleries, by district and by theme, as well as special tours of our institutions.
These tours are open to everyone (booking directly on our website from October).
- Artists' encounters at Leica
Encounters take place once a week on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 pm. The public meets 4 to 6 artists in the private rooms on the floor of the Leica Store in the Village Royal. These informal get-togethers provide an opportunity for convivial exchanges with the artists, over a glass of wine, thanks to our wine partners Château Jean Faure and Mas Amiel.
(Reservations can be made directly on our website from October).
Institutions
- BnF François Mitterrand
- Center Pompidou
- Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
- Mexican Cultural Institute
- Swedish Institute
- Jeu de Paume
- LE BAL
- mahJ - Museum of Jewish Art and History
- Maison Européenne de la Photographie
- Carnavalet Museum
- Museum of Modern Art
- Musée d'Orsay
- Musée de l'Armée - Hôtel des Invalides
- Museum of Decorative Arts
- Musée départemental Albert-Kahn
- Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Art galleries
- Gallery XII - Sabatina LECCIA and Clara CHICHIN
- Gallery 24b - Patricio SALINAS A.
- Arcturus - Luzia SIMONS
- Bigaignon - Bernar VENET
- Bruno Moinard Editions
- Catherine Putman - Dana COJBUC
- Galerie Poggi - Sophie RISTELHUEBER
- Clémentine de la Féronnière - FLORE
- Écho 119 - ARAKI et SAEKI
- Insula - Thomas JORION
- Ithaque - Shinji NAGABE
- galerie du jour agnès b. - Bernard PLOSSU
- Jean-Kenta Gauthier - Daniel BLAUFUKS and Hanako MURAKAMI
- LeNeuf Sinibaldi - Philippine SCHAEFER
- Les Filles du calvaire - Jean-Christian BOURCART and Scarlett COTEN Todd HIDO and Tania FRANCO KLEIN
- Maubert - Irmel KAMP
- Magnum Photos - Sergio LARRA
- Red Planet - Sachiko MORITA
- Rabouan Moussion - Erwin OLAF, Stefan VANFLETEREN, Vincent FOURNIER, Claude GASSIAN, Quentin LEFRANC and Jay RAMIER
- Remedies - Olaf WIPPERFÜRTH
- Galerie RX - Elger ESSER
- Schall Collection - Roger SCHALL
- Seroussi - Man Ray, Hans BELLMER and Raymond HAINS
- Suzanne Tarasiève - Mari KATAYAMA and Boris MIKHAÏLOV
Guided tours, meetings with artists, photo exhibitions... Find the full program on the Photo Days website.
Photography enthusiasts are in for a treat: for a whole month, from November to December, all the major cultural institutions in Paris are offering a special program, showcasing the talents of contemporary photography. A not-to-be-missed event in the capital!
