Photo Days 2026
A PHOTO ● VIDEO FESTIVAL IN AND AROUND PARIS
Photo Days 2025
A PHOTO ● VIDEO FESTIVAL IN AND AROUND PARIS ● agnès b.
● Alexandra CATIERE
● Catherine BALET
● Thomas KLOTZ
● Véronique ELLENA ...
2 – 30 November 2026
Since 2020, Photo Days promotes the creation of contemporary art by commissioning artists to work in atypical spaces and venues.
Photo Days invite visitors to a unique photographic experience in and around Paris throughout the month of November : museums, cultural institutions, galleries, foundations, private collections, and artist studios collaborate with Photo Days to showcase the full diversity of the world’s photographic production to enthusiasts and the curious alike.
From November 2nd to the 30th, Photo Days will guide you from one bank of the Seine to the other for an exceptional, immersive experience.
This 7th edition of Photo Days is under the patronage of agnès b.
Photo Days cartes blanches
Photo Days promotes the creation of contemporary art by commissioning artists to work in atypical spaces and venues.
agnès b. 5 jours à Moscou en 1987
29 October – 13 November 2026,
at Maison agnès b, 17 rue Dieu · Paris 10e
opening 2 November at 6pm
In 1987, agnès b. spent five days in Moscow, then the Soviet capital, alongside ELLE journalist Philippe Trétiack. Armed with her analogue Nikon, she photographed the city's everyday life: children, shopkeepers, passersby, faces, and clothing. Born almost spontaneously alongside her ELLE assignment, these black-and-white and colour images capture a curious, attentive gaze on an era just a few years before the Soviet Union's dissolution.
Alexandra CATIERE, Salve
4 – 28 November 2026
at Rotonde Balzac, Fondation des Artistes, Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, 11 rue Berryer · Paris 8e
opening 4 November at 5pm
Photo Days presents the laureate of its first Open Call on Balzac & wine, Alexandra Catiere. This new series titled SALVE, is inspired by Balzac's Eugénie Grandet, drawing on the romantic ritual of gazing at the sky at a set hour. Catiere photographs the evening sky at 9 PM, blending analog techniques to evoke memory and connection. A 2026 Prix Niépce laureate, Catiere invites visitors to raise a glass, look up, and photograph the sky in dedication to their loved ones.
Catherine BALET, Looking for the Masters
3 – 30 November 2026, at Sorbonne Artgallery, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e
opening 5 November at 6:30pm
Photo Days and Sorbonne Artgallery invite the curator Aline Pujo to present Catherine Balet and her series Looking for the Masters. Reinterpreting iconic portraits with her muse, seventy-year-old Ricardo Martinez Paz, she builds a fictional museum begun in 2013. Nine new prints now honor long-overlooked female photographers. From Man Ray to Robert Capa, Doisneau, and Grete Stern, the works question the notion of masterpiece in the digital age — blending erudition, subversion, and humor in a playfully destabilising tribute to photography's great figures.
Thomas KLOTZ, Révélation
2 – 30 November 2026
at Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul 95 rue de Sèvres · Paris 6e
opening 6 November at 6pm
For our first collaboration with the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Chapel facing the Bon Marché, we present Thomas Klotz’s Révélation. Created over several months within the chapel of the Miraculous Medal and its community, the series explores the dialogue between religious imagery and the photographic act. Shot on large-format colour camera, the work strips away artifice in search of interiority and stillness, questioning whether photography can find a place within the sacred.
Véronique ELLENA, Mains d’œuvre
19 September – 19 December 2026, as part of Reseaux LUX’s festivals exhibition
at Maison des arts et de la culture de Créteil, Place Salvador Allende · Créteil (94)
artist present 14 November at 3pm
As part of the 200 LUX exhibition, Photo Days – in collaboration with Le Hangar (Bruxelles)– presents Véronique Ellena’s Mains d’œuvre, a series exploring the world of apprentices, craftspeople, and manual workers. At a vocational training centre in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ellena observes gestures being learned, repeated, and passed on. In workshops that are both functional and alive, tools and objects become part of a process of making, learning, and transformation.
Through luminous, timeless images, the artist reveals the quiet beauty and dignity of manual work, highlighting those whose essential skills and gestures help shape our world.
Photo Days
13 rue Bleue . Paris 9e
reservation@photodays.paris
photodays.paris
Supporting training and education
As part of its efforts to promote contemporary creation, Photo Days has developed its training and education activities. Each year, the festival organises several days of free portfolio readings, where emerging and established photographers present their work to experts and industry professionals, to discuss their artistic approach and receive constructive feedback. Dates : November 9 & 10, inscriptions: www. photodays.paris/lectures-de-portfolio
Events
● “Les artistes font salon” – 3, 10, 17, 24 November 5:30pm : Photo Days hosts informal meetings with artists, upon reservation. La Hune (Paris 6e) opens their doors to the public, inviting them to meet 4 or 5 artists in a relaxed, intimate setting.
● Roundtable – 16 November 6pm : A discussion on agnès b.’s approach to collecting photography and her personal photographic work, she also features on her clothing designs.
● Prix StudioCollector – 23 November 6pm : Award ceremony for the Jean-Conrad and Isabelle Lemaître’s StudioCollector Prize, presented by Nathalie Mamane-Cohen at the Jeu de Paume, in partnership with Photo Days and Le Fresnoy - Studio national.
Free gallery tours
Photo Days organises free guided tours open to everyone, exploring exhibitions by district and theme, as well as exclusive visits to institutions. Discover the full programme at: photodays.paris/agenda
galleries
● Galerie XII
● Galerie 24b
● Alta Vista Arts
● Angalia
● Arcturus
● Au Médicis
● Bruno Moinard Éditions
● Clémentine de la Féronnière
● DARMO
● Dominique Fiat
● Écho 119
● Eva Meyer
● Initial Labo
● Ithaque
● Jean-François Cazeau
● Jorge Alyskewycz
● galerie du jour
● Maubert
● Pixi
● Polka
● Galerie Putman
● Rabouan Moussion
● See Galerie
● SOLA
● Sorbonne Artgallery
● Thaddaeus Ropac
institutions
● Atelier Néerlandais
● BnF François-Mitterrand
● Centre culturel canadien
● CPIF
● Centre tchèque
● Fondation Fiminco
● Fondation Henri-Cartier Bresson
● Hangar Y
● Institut suédois
● Jeu de Paume
● La Fab.
● Le 100
● LE BAL
● Le Lavoir numérique
● MAC Créteil
● MAC VAL
● MAD
● Maison Doisneau
● MAM
● Mémorial de la Shoah
● MEP
● Musée de l'Armée
● Musée de la Légion d'honneur
● Musée de la Libération de Paris
● Musée départemental Albert Kahn
● Musée du quai Branly
● Quai de la Photo
atypical venues
● Camion RosAlma
● Césure
● Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul
● Diamantino Labo Photo
● Éditions Firmin-Didot
● Gare de Lyon
● HEMERIA
● La Hune
● IWPA
● La suite du Huit
● Les Trois Bains
● Mairie du 7e
● Maison agnès b.
● MUSKHANE
● Neuflize OBC
● Paris La Défense
● Raspail 261
● REGARD
● Rotonde Balzac
● Studio Bauret
● Studio Frank Horvat
● we are_
events
● Les artistes font salon
● Journée d'études
● Lectures de Portfolio
● Les Nuits Photo
● Objectif FEMMES
● Paris Photo
● PhotoWalk
● Prix StudioCollector
● RPBB
● Table-ronde
● Visites guidées
● Workshop
