Following its launch in 2024, Voices has now moved to the central nave. Curated by Devika Singh and Nadine Wietlisbach, it places a curatorial reflection at the heart of the Fair with a proposal on landscape and a project on kinship ties and their representations.

Curators 2025: Devika Singh, Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, and Nadine Wietlisbach, Director of the Fotomuseum Winterthur

Paysages by Devika Singh

The landscapes presented in this section span documentary to more personal and speculative proposals by artists who have not before been presented at Paris Photo. Works move from the mountanous sceneries of post-war Lebanon (Daniele Genadry) to the half-built infrastructure of contemporary Persepolis (Mohammad Ghazali) and the makeshift homes of farmers contesting the deregulation of agriculture (Gauri Gill). The selection is deliberately decentred with works made in countries ranging from India to Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Roumania and Poland. Each artist in their singular way expands the definition of landscape in photography and its embedded memorial, social and political stakes.

● Ab-Anbar Gallery, London Mohammad Ghazali » Hessam Samavatian »
● Galeria Anca Poterasu SRL, Bucharest* Ioana Cirlig »
● Galeria Monopol, Warsaw* Maria Michałowska »
● Taymour Grahne Gallery, Dubai* Daniele Genadry »
● Tintera, Cairo* Bernard Guillot »
● Vadehra Art, New Dehli* Gauri Gill »

Where we meet – Ambigous Kinship by Nadine Wietlisbach

Moments of vulnerability and strength, glimpses of intimate relations between human beings and their photographic ambivalence are linking the gathered works. Developed conceptually and experimentally over many years, they share an interest in investigating the complex nature of kinship.

Artists from different generations, each with a unique visual language, are reflecting their own role as image makers not only in relation to the portrayed individuals but also their construction of a particular framework through which viewers engage with the work. Photography is presented as a social practice, embedded in material conditions and ideological structures.

The presentation loosely weaves together narratives of kinship, tracing the tension between distance and proximity, power and care, and how these dynamics can be rendered through the photographic image.

● galerie Echo 119, Paris* Rinko Kawauchi »
● Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich* Torbjorn Rodland »
● Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich* Shirana Shahbazi » Paul Mpagi Sepuya »
● Higher Pictures, New York* Justine Kurland » Aspen Mays » Keisha Scarville »
● Hatch Gallery, Paris● KLEMMS, Berlin* Felipe Romero Beltran »