Paris Photo has landed in Paris, taking over the monumental Grand Palais with an impressive array of 246 exhibitors from 38 countries. From established galleries and world-renowned photographers to younger galleries and emerging names to look out for, alongside publishers and a programme of book signings, in-conversation events and talks, Paris Photo is among the world’s leading international art fairs dedicated to photography. Beyond the fair itself, the city is abuzz with launches, openings, receptions and exhibitions.
Visit the fair’s website for more details of the programme for the weekend ahead. Meanwhile, here is just a small selection of photographers to look out for while you’re there…
Merry Alpern, Dirty Windows, Paris Photo 2026
Gallery / 10 images
In 1993, NYC-born and raised photographer Merry Alpern visited a friend’s loft in Manhattan’s Wall Street district. She noticed it overlooked the bathroom window of an after-hours sex club. From this vantage point, she documented the comings-and-goings therein. Dirty Windows is a montage of these illicit transactions – money exchanging hands, drugs snorted, lingerie, embraces, unzipped pants, etc. Voyeuristic, abject, unsettling, it’s as uncomfortable as it is compelling.
Summer Wagner, Paris Photo 2026
Gallery / 4 images
Located in Paris Photo’s Digital Sector, the London-New York gallery Nguyen Wahed presents work by Los Angeles-based digital artist Summer Wagner. The longer you look at Wagner’s dreamlike pictures of friends lit by the eerie glow of their phone screens and cigarette lighters, lying in the grass or lounging on their sofas, the more they take on an uncanny, unsettling quality.
Masahisa Fukase, Paris Photo 2026
Gallery / 6 images
Best known for his 1973 series From Window – which obsessively documented his then-wife Yoko as she left their apartment each morning – Masahisa Fukase is one of Japan’s most eminent but controversial photographers. Among other renowned photographers, such as Daido Moriyama and Kikuji Kawada, Michael Hoppen’s booth at this year’s Paris Photo presents a selection of Fukase’s work from the 1960s to the 1990s. From a view of the Paris skyline partly obscured by a strangely emotive, blurred hand to explicit nudes in high-contrast, grainy black and white, this small but exquisitely chosen selection embodies the introspective, melancholy and provocative spirit of his work.
Viviane Sassen, Paris Photo 2026
Gallery / 10 images
Fusing high fashion, fine art and photojournalism, Viviane Sassen’s photographs are always arresting and recognisably hers. Kominek – a contemporary gallery, publisher and bookshop in Berlin – presents pictures from Frau Holle, Sassen’s collaboration with Emmeline de Mooij, a book about the bodily experience of womanhood and desire as an invisible force.
Silina Syan, Made in Bangladesh, Paris Photo 2026
Gallery / 7 images
Ever since her first trip to Bangladesh with her father, French-born artist Silina Syan has used her camera as a means of communicating with her family, whose language she does not speak. In Made in Bangladesh, she explores mixed heritage, cultural hybridity, ornamentation, and much more.
Joseph Szabo, American Teen, Paris Photo
Gallery / 9 images
For over 25 years, photography teacher Joseph Szabo documented the world of his high school students. From the 1960s to the 1990s, his portraits reveal the teenagers’ worlds in all their drama and poignancy. Jackson Fine Art’s presentation of Szabo’s work at Paris Photo coincides with the publication of American Teen by MACK and Important Flowers, a new monograph dedicated to Szabo’s work and edited by Sofia Coppola.
Ricardo Martínez Paz, Paris Photo 2026
Gallery / 13 images
Ricardo Martínez Paz left Buenos Aires and settled in Paris in the 1970s during an exodus of artists due to the country’s civic-military dictatorship. Drawn into the thrall of the French capital’s glittering fashion world and nightlife, he began working as a stylist and photographer. His archive is a treasure trove of glamour and celebrity.
