Photo Days celebrates its 5th edition !
A PHOTO ● VIDEO TOUR IN AND AROUND PARIS

2 – 30 November 2024

Since 2020, Photo Days has invited visitors to a unique photographic experience in and around Paris. Throughout the month, museums, cultural institutions, galleries, foundations, fairs, and festivals 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.

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Exhibitions
Photo Days promotes the creation of contemporary art by commissioning artists to work in atypical spaces and venues.

Juliette AGNEL . Dahomey Spirit
7 November – 3rd December 2024, at the Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, Paris 1er

Juliette Agnel presents a unique project that she created specifically for the space of the Carrousel du Louvre as part of a carte blanche for the Photo Days festival. During the summer of 2024, she visited the Jardin d’Essai of the Zinsou Foundation in Benin. There, she discovered its unique vegetation, a rare testament to the Dahomey gap, a climatic upheaval that occurred in this part of the world 4,500 years ago. Sensitive to the telluric forces, the artist carved her way through this historical cradle of voodoo to work at night in communion with nature. By using smoke and lights of different colors, she creates a distance from her subject — these uniquely resilient plants — while also allowing for a passage to an invisible world.

Ariane MICHEL . Re Wind
4 – 30 November 2024, at l’Arlequin, 75 rue de Rennes, Paris 6e

For the emblematic location cinema venue L'Arlequin, Photo Days gives carte blanche to Ariane Michel. The artist has chosen to focus on the cinematic heritage of FPA France, which preserves classic films by Griffith, Keaton, Eisenstein, and Flaherty, among others. She reinterprets these films in her own way, creating an immersive space in the bar area of L'Arlequin's basement. Her installation blends crafted sounds, photograms from classic films, and her own images to question our perception of the world. Fascinated by the “non-human”—animals, plants, minerals—Ariane Michel invites the viewer to reconsider our relationship with nature, manipulating the scale and hierarchy of beings. Her work, at the intersection of film and installation, creates new mental geographies where the world is perceived differently.

Letizia LE FUR . Le Beau jeu
13 – 23 November 2024, at L’Inaperçu, 32 rue de Montmorency, Paris 3e
winner of Grand Prix Paris je t’aime x Photo Days

In resonance with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Letizia Le Fur celebrates the "small games" of everyday life — those fleeting moments that reveal the vibrant energy of the city. Inspired by philosopher Mathieu Triclot, who asserts that "to play is to become human," she explores how these moments shape our connection to urban space. After spending six months in Paris and its suburbs, she notes: "Adults play less than I thought, but I discovered some die-hard players." For her project, she chooses a square format, evoking those games that have survived the digital age: board games, hopscotch, Scrabble tiles... Paris, usually a city-museum, recedes to become the humble setting for our intimate and playful connection to the territory.

Fatoumata DIABATÉ . Nte bogo daga ye, je ne suis pas une poterie
2 – 27 November 2024, at Sorbonne Artgallery, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Galerie Soufflot, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e

For her carte blanche at Sorbonne Artgallery, Fatoumata Diabaté created a series in Mali during the summer of 2024. For about sixty years, and particularly since 2010, the country has been plagued by geopolitical conflicts. With the project Nte bogo daga ye—meaning "I am not pottery" in the Bambara language —Fatoumata Diabaté pays tribute to the victims of the atrocities committed in Ogossagou, a Dogon village destroyed on March 23, 2019, where the entire population was burned alive. Armed with the only weapon she possesses, her art, Fatoumata Diabaté transports us to this "victim space" and bears witness to the suffering associated with this massacre. Through the use of pottery, she confronts the durability of this everyday object—"burned" to be solidified—with the murder of the inhabitants, killed by fire. She approaches this series as a true testimony, expressing both violence and resistance.


Carline BOURDELAS . Le chef-d’œuvre inconnu
2 – 30 November 2024, at Rotonde Balzac - Fondation des Artistes, 11 rue Berryer, Paris 8e

At the invitation of Photo Days, Carline Bourdelas creates a series for the Rotonde Balzac about the madness and genius of the artist, drawing inspiration from "The Unknown Masterpiece." This short story, around sixty pages long, features an imaginary character, the old master Frenhofer, alongside two historical figures, the Flemish François Pourbus and the very young Nicolas Poussin. Built around the theme of the invisible work, which merges in the artist's imagination with a woman whose reality remains uncertain, the photographs of Carline Bourdelas blend perspectives and create a chaos from which a female figure and the atelier in which she appears sometimes emerge.

Anaïs TONDEUR . Lorsque le monde était rire
4 – 14 November 2024 at Bibliothèque de l’Hôtel de l’industrie, 4 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris 6e

For the first time, Photo Days is setting up in the library of the Hôtel de l’Industrie, a space usually closed to the public. This historic venue features an installation by Anaïs Tondeur that unfolds in a play of mirrors, plunging into ancient times to encounter an image of transformation.

As we experience a significant turning point, this photographic research draws from a passage in the Kojiki, a Japanese cosmogonic myth that recounts the rebirth of the world through laughter. Composed of a series of dioramas, referencing the pioneers of photography who came to these places, this installation showcases a series of photographs of landscapes born from the vibrations of human and non-human laughter.

To achieve this, we launched an international "call to laughter" and collected sounds emitted by various entities, whether animal or elemental, that could be associated with laughter. From this global sound journey, composer Floriane Pochon created an acoustic piece that is diffused here under thin membranes covered with a layer of earth and dust.

In a collision of temporal and spatial scales, and following the dynamics of orogenesis—the very principle of mountain formation—each laugh is transmitted for its vibration, setting dust particles in motion, re-arranging matter, and thus creating new worlds.

Human Lithuania . Romualdas POŽERSKIS / Violeta BUBELYTĖ / Aleksandras MACIJAUSKAS / Algimantas KUNČIUS / Algirdas ŠEŠKUS
12 – 30 November 2024, at Galerie 24b, 24bis rue Saint-Roch, Paris 1er

Photo Days is pleased to invite the Lithuanian association NPO ‘Kultūrinės ir organizacinės idėjos’ to present more than 40 photographic works dating from 1960 to 1990 by the most recognized Lithuanian photographers: Violeta BUBELYTĖ, Algimantas KUNČIUS, Aleksandras MACIJAUSKAS, Romualdas POŽERSKIS, and Algirdas ŠEŠKUS.


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 organizes 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.

Events

• Les artistes font salon, 12 – 26 Nov : Photo Days organizes meetings with artists, upon reservation. Every week, the Leica Store in the Village Royal (Paris 8e) opens its doors to the public, inviting them to meet 4 or 5 artists in a relaxed, private setting.
• Prix StudioCollector, 8 Nov : Award ceremony of the Jean-Conrad and Isabelle Lemaître’s StudioCollector Prize by Jean-Philippe Vernes at Amphithéâtre Richelieu of La Sorbonne, in partnership with Photo Days and École du Fresnoy.
• Instagram contest, 19 Oct – 11 Nov 11 : an amateur competition on Instagram in partnership with Leica and Initial Labo, on the theme #ParisCaché

Free gallery tours
Photo Days organizes free guided tours for all, by district and theme, as well as privileged visits to institutions. mail: reservation@photodays.paris


Participating venues

galleries
Galerie XII ● 20 Thorigny ● Le 24b. ● AN INC. ● L'ANGLE ● Anne-Laure Buffard ● Arcturus ● baudoin lebon ● Bigaignon ● Bruno Moinard Éditions ● Clémentine de la Féronnière ● La Galerie des Couleurs ● Écho 119 ● Les Filles du Calvaire ● Initial Labo ● Insula ● Jean-Kenta Gauthier ● galerie du jour agnès b. ● Julie Caredda ● Leica Galerie ● LeNeuf Sinibaldi ● Magnum Photos ● Maria Lund ● Maubert ● Galerie Miranda ● Natalie Seroussi ● planète rouge ● Poggi ● Polka Galerie ● Putman ● Rabouan Moussion ● RCM Galerie ● Remèdes ● RX&SLAG ● Schall Collection ● Sorbonne Artgallery ● Suzanne Tarasiève

institutions
Atelier Néerlandais ● BnF ● Centre Pompidou ● École des Arts Joailliers  ● Fondation Henri-Cartier Bresson ● Gaîté Lyrique ● Institut culturel du Mexique ● Institut polonais ● Institut suédois ● Jeu de Paume ● La Fab. ● Lafayette Anticipations ● LE BAL ● MAD ● mahJ ● Maison Doisneau ● MEP ● Musée Albert-Kahn ● Musée d'Art Moderne ● Musée de l'Armée ● Musée d'Orsay ● Musée du quai Branly

atypical venues
ARCHES CITOYENNES ● Diamantino Labo Photo ● Fondazione Sozzani ● Frank Horvat Studio ● Gamma-Rapho ● Gobelins ● Ithaque ● L’INAPERÇU ● La Suite du Huit ● Neuflize OBC ● Odile Ouizeman ● Quai de la Photo ● Reflet Médicis ● Sinibaldi VAP ● Studio Bauret ● we are_

events
Les artistes font salon ● ART-ICON ● Concours Instagram ● Festival du Regard ● Grand Prix ● Lectures de Portfolio ● Les Nuits Photo ● Paris Photo ● Salon Photo Doc. ● Prix StudioCollector ● Théâtre 13 ● Workshop Leica