The Phair | Photo Art Fair

IV EDITION
4 - 7 May 2023

Applications to participate in the fourth edition of The Phair are online!

The Phair, the annual event dedicated to photography, will be held from May 5 to May 7 (with Opening on May 4) inside Pavilion 3 of Torino Esposizioni.

The Phair is the photography fair dedicated to contemporary art and photography galleries that for the occasion present image-related art projects made with photographic or video material. The selection of the galleries involved is assigned to a Committee composed of professionals working in different areas of the art market.

This careful choice and equal spaces for all guarantee an organic proposal not divided into themes and sections but more similar to a series of exhibitions, innovating the traditional fair structure and suggesting new methods of understanding and analysis of the artworks proposed.

Turin's vocation for photography, whose roots go back as far as the first half of the XIX century, has been cultivated throughout the twentieth century and nurtured in particular in recent years with the birth of important institutions such as Camera centro italiano per la fotografia and the new Turin branch of Gallerie d'Italia, a place where photography and video art express their aesthetic value by addressing crucial themes of history and contemporaneity.

The Phair was born in 2019 with the same ambition, to promote and contribute to a more widespread awareness of the value of photographic artworks.

A goal that involves all the major cultural institutions in the area, that during the month of May propose exhibitions and initiatives related to the world of images in order to create a schedule of events dedicated to photography and contemporary art lovers.

In this context, is going to born a new Turin International Photography Festival of which The Phair will be an integral part; a new spring event that Turin, the Italian capital of contemporary art, dedicates to photography.