Paris Photo 2025: 11 exhibitions to see

By Matthieu Jacquet, 

and Camille Bois-Martin.

Tyler Mitchell on the Maison Européenne de la Photographie

At simply 30, Tyler Mitchell is what you’d name a younger pictures prodigy. Propelled to fame in 2018 along with his portraits of Beyoncé, the New Yorker has since stood out due to his elegant, transferring photos of African American communities, interesting to each magazines and museums. This Fall, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) hosts his first institutional exhibition in France.

Tyler Mitchell, “Wish This Was Real”, till January twenty fifth, 2026, on the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris 4th.

Nobuyoshi Araki’s Polaroids on the Musée Guimet

Since the Seventies, Nobuyoshi Araki has composed his images very like Nineteenth-century artists engraved shunga. The Japanese artist’s photos are specific, even pornographic, and converse as a lot to his personal wishes as these of society. While his bondage photos are extensively identified, the Musée Guimet presents a stunning exhibition composed fully of Polaroids taken by the artist virtually each day between 1997 and 2024.

Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini at Le Bal

As an American photographer and activist born in 1949, Donna Gottschalk documented the on a regular basis life and intimacy of the New York lesbian neighborhood throughout the emergence of LGBTQ+ rights actions within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties. French author and artwork critic Hélène Giannecchini, born in 1987, would uncover this physique of labor lengthy after it was created.

On view at Le Bal for a number of months, the exhibition “Nous autres” was born from the encounter between the 2 ladies, with the previous granting the latter entry to her archives, by no means earlier than proven in Europe. For the event, Hélène Giannecchini accompanies these photos with texts formed by their conversations and rising bond.

Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini with Carla Williams, “Nous autres”, till November sixteenth, 2025, at Le Bal, Paris 18th.

The ninth version of the truthful is developing

For its ninth version  held on the Espace Le Molière in Paris, the Approche truthful presents fourteen solo exhibitions, together with eight beforehand unseen collection, curated by French and worldwide galleries. This wealthy program brings collectively portraits by French artist Vincent Lemaire, luminous silver prints of phytoplankton by Anna Katharina Scheidegger and sculptural images by Daphne van de Velde, amongst others.

Approche fair, from November 13rd to sixteenth, 2025, Le Molière, Paris 1st.

Sibylle Bergemann at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Renowned for her portraits, trend, and architectural pictures, Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010) captured post-war Germany from many angles, documenting each its society and her native capital. The Fondation Cartier-Bresson is exhibiting one among her most memorable initiatives. The Monument, a collection began in 1975 and accomplished in 1986, chronicles the development of the Marx and Engels memorial in East Berlin (then the GDR) by means of a robust black-and-white testimony to this pivotal second in German historical past.

Sibylle Bergemann, “The Monument”, till January eleventh, 2026, on the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris third.

Felipe Romero Beltrán within the MEP Studio

Felipe Romero Beltrán is a photographer to look at carefully. He focuses on themes associated to migration and territory, which he explores by means of photos imbued with a essential eye on right now’s world. Presented this week at Paris Photo on the shared sales space of Hatch and Klemm’s galleries, the Colombian photographer in his thirties can be unveiling Dialect on the MEP Studio. That collection follows the each day lives of younger Moroccan males in a migrant middle in Seville between 2020 and 2023.

This robust visibility in France extends to the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, the place the artist just lately opened the exhibition Bravo. There, guests can uncover his eponymous collection targeted on the river that separates Mexico and the United States – a symptomatic space of rising, violent border insurance policies.

Felipe Romero Beltrán, “Dialect”, till December 7, 2025, at Maison Européenne de la Photographie – Studio, Paris 4th.

Luc Delahaye at Jeu de Paume

Born in Tours in 1962, Luc Delahaye constructed his status by means of his travels world wide. As a battle photojournalist within the Nineties, he has spent the final 25 years creating a extra documentary and creative strategy. Most of the large-format images on show at Jeu de Paume are the results of lengthy exposures or digitally assembled compositions. They cowl the conflicts that form our modern world, from Iraq, Ukraine, Haiti, Libya to OPEC conferences and COP conferences…

Jo Spence at Galerie Treize

In 1982, Jo Spence was recognized with breast most cancers. Eight years later, she discovered she had leukemia and handed away in 1992. These invasive and difficult diseases regularly remodeled her physique and, unconsciously, her thoughts. The British artist then started what she known as “phototherapy.” She would use pictures as a therapeutic, academic, and political software to reclaim management over her bodily and psychological identification. With her digicam, she created an intimate and deeply delicate physique of labor, now proven for the primary time in France at Galerie Treize.

Jo Spence, a undertaking by Georgia René-Worms in collaboration with Gallien Déjean and Emmanuel Guy, open till November twenty second, 2025, at Galerie Treize, Paris eleventh.

Kourtney Roy at Les filles du calvaire gallery

On the partitions of Les filles du calvaire gallery, vivid retro clothes pops in opposition to city or historic backdrops. These photos, all self-portraits by Canadian artist Kourtney Roy, have been created throughout an artist residency in Naples. Within her cinematic world, she attracts her inspiration from neorealism and standard Italian comedies, crafting whimsical, biting images with an alluring classic aesthetic.

Kourtney Roy, “La Volpina”, till December twentieth, 2025, at Les filles du calvaire gallery, Paris third.

The historical past of political photomontage at La Contemporaine

Coined by Russian Constructivist artists in 1917, the time period “photomontage” now carries a number of meanings, deeply intertwined with politics. Drawing from its in depth archive of illustrated press and posters, La Contemporaine presents an exhibition in two elements – 1914–1939 and 1939–1991. It explores creative practices of retouching and manipulating photos used for propaganda functions in France and overseas, from World War I to the early days of Photoshop.

“Cut, paste, print: political photomontage in the 20th century”, exhibition from November Nineteenth, 2025, to March 14th, 2026, at La Contemporaine, 184 Cr Nicole Dreyfus, 92000 Nanterre.

Morgane Ely at Prima gallery

It was throughout her research in Japan that Morgane Ely mastered what would ultimately develop into her signature method – wooden engraving, rooted in conventional printmaking. Since then, the younger French artist – winner of the 2023 Villa Noailles Révélations Emerige Prize – has spent hours, weeks even, carving wooden to disclose, line by line, photos sourced from the web, like movie stills and popular culture icons. Her first solo exhibition at Prima gallery showcases a brand new collection impressed by postcards of Japanese ladies in conventional attire. The surroundings evokes the lengthy,  ongoing historical past of Japan’s exoticization by means of the Western gaze.