It's back: head to Paris' Saint-Germain-des-Prés district to enjoy the PhotoSaintGermain festival, a free artistic event not to be missed, running November 5–28, 2026.
Whether you’re a hobbyist or professional photographer, an art lover, or a bargain hunter, this event is for you! The festival PhotoSaintGermain is back for a 15th edition to be lived from 5 au 28 novembre 2026. As every year, galleries, bookstores, cultural centers, museums, art schools and other participants transform the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district into a vast parcours artistique.
As its name suggests, this free event on the Left Bank puts photography in the spotlight. It features exhibitions, meetings, screenings, signings and studio visits. For almost a month, this great photographic journey brings together amateurs, artists, collectors and professionals from the field, around the eighth art.
For this 15th edition, more than more than thirty venues await you, inviting you to discover French and international artists from yesterday and today. This year, children and teens also have their own programs: special tours and workshops let them explore the history and practice of photography.
Key spots to check out during the PhotoSaintGermain festival:
Cultural institutions and centers
- Académie des beaux‑arts - Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Prize, Guillaume Herbaut - Ukraine, the trouble that remains
- Centre Culturel Irlandais - Portrait of an Irish collector
- Centre tchèque de Paris - FAMU, No contest! Jindřich Štreit, Humanity
- Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles - The Blind, the INJA photographic collection
- Fondation LAccolade ‐ Institut de France Eugénie Touzé, The Cradle
- Mairie du 7e arr. Salle Béatrice Hodent de Broutelles - with the Musée de l’Armée – Hôtel national des Invalides - Chloe Sharrock
- Maison d’Auguste Comte - Pierre‑Jérôme Jehel, An Invisible Double
- Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine - Université Paris Cité - Michel Butor, an ultrasensitive portrait
- Musée de Minéralogie de l’École des Mines de Paris - Laure Winants
- Musée national Eugène‑Delacroix - Karen Knorr
- Quai de Solférino - Denise Colomb
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Schools
- Atelier de Sèvres - Works by second-year Bachelor Art & Image students
- Galerie Callot de l'École d’architecture Paris‑Malaquais - PSL - Benoît Fougeirol, ZUS in dialogue with the students' works
- National School of Fine Arts in Paris - Material Histories, an exhibition by the students of ENSBA Paris and ENSP Arles
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Galleries
- Arnaud Lefebvre Gallery — Natalie Curtis, Tower
- Art Absolument Gallery — Françoise Huguier, The Traveling Eye
- Berthet‑Aittouarès Gallery — From Mario Giacomelli to Antoine Schneck, 20 photographers celebrate the gallery’s 40th anniversary
- Documents 15 Gallery — Ariane Fruit, Traversed Spaces
- Paris Crous Gallery in collaboration with the National Center for Visual Arts — Guillaume Bihan and Daria Svertilova, Clément Chapillon, Daphné Nan Le Sergent
- Le Minotaure Gallery — Marek Piasecki, A Friday Person
- Madé Gallery — Maximiliano Tineo, El Rey Blanco
- Roger‑Viollet Gallery — Jean Marquis
- VU’ Gallery — Park Chan-wook, Photographer — When the Clockmaker Halts Time
- Metamorphoses — First Glances. Photo books for children, The Uprisings of the Commune
- Spirale Gallery — Zen Lefort, This Wall
- Zander Galerie Paris — Tina Barney
Bookshops, hotels & Pop-ups
- La Louisiane Hotel – 3rd floor. ROOM SERVICE 5
- Shmorévaz — Cammie Tolui
- Adagp — Claire Cocano, Desiré Chevalier Street
- 7L — Noémie Ninot
- Delpire & Co — Rafał Milach, LAST RESORT
- Librairie des Alpes — Julien Lacroix, Alpage
- Librairie Polonaise — Carte blanche to Rust Publishing
Here's an event just the way we like it: open to all, full of surprises, and free of charge! How about a stroll through the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in November?
