Photo Days is the artsy event not to be missed this autumn in Paris. We look forward to seeing you from November 3 to 30, 2025, to discover the various exhibitions and events organized in Parisian institutions and galleries. Here's the program!
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 3 to 30, 2025, discover the various events organized in the capital and admire theworks of international artists. What a program!
For this new and sixth 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, fill you with wonder, question you and make you react.
As always, Photo Days and Paris je t'aime - Office de tourisme will be awarding the Grand Prix de photographie to the artists and professional photographers who have entered this year's competition. Aspiring artists also benefit from free portfolio readings and professional advice (registration required until October 1, 2025).
Participating venues and special events to discover during this 2025 edition:
Exhibitions
- Antoine SCHNECK
Studio Harcourt - November 3 to January 30
Antoine Schneck, born in 1963 and a graduate of the Louis Lumière school, has been devoting himself to photography since the age of 30, with a predilection for portraiture. He began his career with the camera before switching to digital, appreciating its quality and perfect definition. His work develops in series, as he travels and meets new people, always aiming for a direct approach to the face.
His models, willing and consenting, pose in a white fabric tent, where they are bathed in uniform light, standing out against a black background. Antoine Schneck, invisible, operates from the outside, capturing his subjects through an opening in the fabric, favoring total neutrality to achieve extreme relaxation and abandonment on the part of the model. Best known for his portraits and still lifes on black backgrounds, Antoine Schneck lives and works in Paris.
- Julie BALAGUÉ - Anatomy of the invisible
Chapelle Saint-Louis de l'Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière - November 3 to 30
Julie Balagué, born in 1986 and a graduate of the École nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière, combines a career in the national press (Le Monde, L'Obs, etc.) with personal photographic projects. A committed feminist, she explores femininity and maternity through series such as Moi(s) and Mater. Her practice emancipates itself from the documentary genre, notably with her discovery of Levitt housing estates, which inspired her Pursuit of happiness series presented at Rencontres d'Arles. In 2017, supported by the Commande des Regards du Grand Paris, she produced Utopie/Maladrerie, integrating sculpture into her photographic practice.
Winner of France's Radioscopie grant in 2022 for her work on school bullying, the artist is developing an approach in which the image combines with the written word and sound, questioning photographic objectivity. His recent research focuses on photographic materials and forms, giving volume to his images and engaging the viewer in an exploration of the limits of photographic representation.
- Paolo VENTURA - Promenades de nuit
Carte blanche on Honoré de Balzac
Rotonde Balzac - Fondation des Artistes Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild - November 3 to 30
The son of an illustrator, Paolo Ventura (born 1968 in Milan) spent his childhood surrounded by his father's sketches and stories. This childlike wonder and passion still permeates his narrative staging work, which regularly features images of street artists, theaters and cinemas, reminiscent of certain compositions in Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings. His process begins with the invention of a story. He first sketches it out on paper, then constructs a three-dimensional miniature set, which he captures with his camera.
Paolo Ventura's scenes are tinged with nostalgia, evoking everyday moments from Italy's past - the faded walls of stucco buildings, the cobbled streets - but all possess an element of the strange or fantastic that echoes his childhood: an overflowing imagination for someone who thinks the real world always seems a little too gray.
- Juliette AGNEL
In connection with Roger Caillois and literature
L'École des Arts Joailliers Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau - November 3 to 30
Juliette Agnel (1973, lives and works in Paris) is unique in the French photographic landscape. Taking a holistic, philosophical approach, this artist has set out on a quest to understand the world. This exploration takes her from the sky, inspired by her relationship with the cosmos and telluric forces, to the earth in her relationship with geobiology and the mystical experience of nature's doorways, and today underground, with her exploration of prehistoric caves.
She thus photographs what is invisible, and through her work attempts to convey what is of the order of feeling and interiority. There is no photographic truth in Juliette Agnel's images. The calm that emerges from them is the most concrete example of this; they are a time machine that also bears the imprint of an ecological evidence.
- Yan CARPENTER
Winner of the SAM ART 2024 residency
Sorbonne Artgallery, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - November 3 to 30
Yan Carpenter is a self-taught photographer, DJ and history teacher based in Guadalupe, in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro. Born in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He lives and works in Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro. Passionate about images and music, he develops a sensitive approach to everyday urban life through his lens. A former drummer, he turned to photography after his band disbanded, using his first camera to experiment with light, composition and directing models on location. Gradually, his work evolved towards scenes of everyday life, capturing fleeting moments with a recognizable aesthetic.
It was in the midst of the pandemic that his work took on new significance, thanks in particular to a landmark photograph of the reopening of public transport in Rio de Janeiro. This emblematic image brought him considerable visibility and led to his first exhibition, Rodo Cotidiano, curated by Carol Maluf, which documented the resilience of workers on the front line of the health crisis, and was a resounding success, with all 26 of his works sold.
- Sandra GULDEMANN DUCHATELLIER - Une fable Égyptienne
Cinéma Le Louxor - November 3 to 30
Sandra Guldemann Duchatellier, a French artist of multicultural origin born in 1965 and mother of two, lives between Corsica and Switzerland. After a twelve-year career in industrial marketing and fashion, she turned to interior design studies. During her stay in Asia from 2012 to 2017, Sandra began exploring street photography, seeking to capture and share the emotions she felt. Photography quickly became a mainstay of her life. She ne her art through various workshops with inspiring photographers, developing a distinctive artistic sensibility.
Her work was recognized by a selection for the KG+ Award in 2017 with her BEHIND series and an exhibition in Kyoto at the Kyotographie festival. Her work, often described as delicate and poetic, reflects a constant quest for a singular, sensitive aesthetic. Since 2021, she has adopted a more intimate approach to photography, visible in her current projects.
Events
- Les artistes font salon
- instagram competition
- Photo Grand Prix
- Portfolio Readings
- Photo Nights
- Objectif Femmes
- Paris Photo
- Salon Photo Doc.
- StudioCollector Award
- Rencontres photographiques du 10e
- Guided tours
- Leica Workshop
Institutions
- Dutch Workshop
- BnF
- CPIF
- School of Jewellery Arts
- Henri-Cartier Bresson Foundation
- Arab World Institute
- Institut culturel du Mexique
- Polish Institute
- Swedish Institute
- Jeu de Paume
- Lafayette Anticipations
- LE BAL
- Museum of Decorative Arts
- Museum of Jewish Art and History
- Maison Doisneau
- Maison Européenne de la Photographie
- Musée Albert-Kahn
- Musée Carnavalet
- Museum of Modern Art
- Musée de l'Armée
- Musée d'Orsay
- Musée du quai Branly
Atypical places
- Clairefontaine Chapel
- Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Pitié-Salpêtrière
- Cinema Le Louxor
- Diamantino Photo Lab
- Éditions Firmin-Didot
- Frank Horvat Studio
- Gamma-Rapho
- La Suite du Huit
- Neuflize OBC
- Sinibaldi VAP
- Société Générale
- Studio Bauret
- Studio Landron
- TRIBE Paris Clichy
- we are_
Art galleries
- Gallery XII
- 193 Gallery
- Alittlegallery
- Arcturus
- Atsikal
- baudoin lebon
- Bruno Moinard Éditions
- Clémentine de la Féronnière
- Cyril Guernieri
- Dominique Fiat
- Echo 119
- EGALLERY Design
- ELLIA Art Gallery
- Initial Labo
- INSULA sur cour
- Le Clézio
- Leica
- LooLooLook
- Maria Lund
- Maubert
- Miranda
- Polka
- Porte B.
- Rabouan Moussion
- SEE Gallery
- Sorbonne Artgallery
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!
