Between emerging discoveries, iconic works, and bold curatorial proposals, Paris Photo once again confirms its status as a major event for photography enthusiasts. Here are our highlights and the artists who captured our attention.

Since its creation in 1997, Paris Photo has established itself as one of the major events on the international art scene, bringing together galleries, institutions, and photography enthusiasts every year. This new edition offers a vibrant panorama of contemporary photographic creation, encompassing visual experimentation, intimate narratives, and social engagement.
As we strolled through the aisles, we selected our favorites: works and artists that we invite you to discover.

Marilyn Minter

With AntifreezeMarilyn Minter continues her striking exploration of desire and the staging of the female body. True to her glossy, hyperrealistic aesthetic, the artist blends glamour and provocation in an image where brilliance, texture, and sensuality collide. Behind the apparent seduction, Minter questions our voyeuristic relationship to the image, playing with the boundary between fascination and discomfort. A powerful, hypnotic work that perfectly illustrates her ability to transform the codes of fashion into a subversive artistic language.

Tania Franco Klein

We discovered Tania Franco Klein's work at this year's festival, and her world immediately captivated us. The Mexican photographer draws on her culture for an instinctive and audacious relationship with color: saturated, vibrant, almost explosive, she transforms it into a true emotional language. Through her cinematic images and fragmented installations, Tania explores contemporary anxieties—hyper-performance, media overstimulation, the search for self—transforming them into suspended scenes of almost theatrical intensity. Her work, currently on display at MoMA, confirms the power of her vision and the relevance of her reflection on our collective psychological landscape.

Saïdou Dicko

Saïdou Dicko's work fascinated us with its way of transforming shadow into a universal language. In his series The Shadowed PeopleHe covers his subjects in deep black, erasing features to reveal a collective and poetic presence. Inspired by his childhood in Burkina Faso and the Fulani tradition, the artist adds graphic motifs that anchor his images in his cultural heritage. Working between photography, painting, and video, Dicko explores humanity, childhood, and freedom with a mysterious gentleness. His silhouettes then become symbolic figures, "the children of the world."

Kevin Osepas

Kevin Osepa's work sensitively explores the identity and spirituality linked to his Curaçao roots. Through his images and his film WatamulaIt draws inspiration from the rites of Brua and from her experiences between her native island and the diaspora. Her compositions blend symbols, everyday objects, and visual poetry to explore belonging, memory, and self-construction. An intimate and powerful language, deeply rooted in the Afro-Caribbean heritage.

Francesca Allen

For its return as a partner of Paris Photo, Chloé presents the captivating work of Francesca Allen, a photographer whose intimate and feminine approach resonates deeply with the House's commitment. With CompetitionIn this series, created during the Lithuanian World's Longest Hair competition, Allen captures a ritual that is at once folkloric, surreal, and imbued with identity. Her tender and delicately curious gaze reveals nearly 200 participants at the heart of this ceremony, a blend of tradition, performance, and fascination. True to her practice, she explores intimacy, youth, and female relationships.

These five artists represent only a glimpse of the abundant richness of this 2025 edition of Paris Photo. It's impossible to encompass all this diversity in a single article, but that's precisely what makes Paris Photo so magical: a profusion of worlds, perspectives, and voices that continue to nourish and renew our way of seeing the world.

Paris Photo
Nov. 13-16, 2025 
Grand Palais
3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008, Paris, France

www.parisphoto.com