Art News: Paris Photo 2026 highlights from the Grand Palais, booth by booth

Paris Photo 2026 opened to the public at the Grand Palais on Thursday 12 November and runs until Sunday 15 November. The fair's own figures for its 29th edition are 197 galleries, 49 publishers, more than 1,200 artists and nearly 400 photobook signings. We went through what the fair and its exhibitors have posted on Instagram since the preview on 11 November, and this is what is on the stands, with booth numbers and a link to each post.

Whitebank Fine Art, a London art advisory and gallery, took these details from those posts on 13 November 2026. Our Paris Photo 2026 guide, published in October, covers the fair's sectors, the Centre Pompidou's exhibition and the galleries to look out for.

Paris Photo 2026 opening hours

• Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November: 1pm to 8pm
• Sunday 15 November: 1pm to 7pm

Tickets are sold through the fair's own website.

Thomas Ruff at the entrance

At the entrance to the Grand Palais, the work of Thomas Ruff runs along a 40-metre wall, from his portraits to his digital images. It is presented for the bicentenary of photography by the five galleries that work with him: David Zwirner, Konrad Fischer, Lia Rumma, MAI 36 and Sprüth Magers. The fair's first look post shows the hang.

Two hundred years in twenty pictures

For the bicentenary, which the French Ministry of Culture is leading, the fair has laid a trail of twenty works through the galleries, one from each decade, from the first experiments of Nicéphore Niépce and William Henry Fox Talbot to Man Ray and Ruff. The twenty are marked on the fair map, and the route takes in the dealers in early photographs. The fair's post sets it out.

The prizes

• Prix DUO. The second Prix DUO, for long partnerships between a photographer and a gallery, went to Viktoria Binschtok and Klemm's of Berlin, which was founded in 2007. Binschtok's work, about how images circulate and shape what we see, is in the Prismes sector at booth D24. See the post.
• Prix Pictet. The photography prize for environmental and social subjects is at Paris Photo for the first time, at booth P02, with two former winners: Valérie Belin, who won in 2016 and whose still lifes put plastic in place of fruit and flowers, and Alfredo Jaar, who won in 2025 with pictures of Utah's Great Salt Lake as water extraction drains it. See the post.
• BMW Art Makers. This year's winners, the artist Lara Tabet and the curator Yasmine Chemali, show Vitreous Body at booth C01: images made by letting water samples and the microbes in them act on light-sensitive surfaces. See the post.
• PhotoBook Awards. Thirty-five books are on the shortlist for the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, now in their fourteenth year, across three categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year and Photography Catalog of the Year. The winners are announced at the fair, and Aperture is at booth K02 with books, signings and limited-edition prints. See Aperture's shortlist post.

London galleries at Paris Photo

Hamiltons, booth C34. The Mayfair gallery is showing a triptych of colour Polaroids by Hiro, each 20 by 24 inches, of fighting birds: Game Fowl, made in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1981. They led to his larger series of twenty-six black and white pictures of the subject, and the gallery believes they have never been exhibited before. See the post.

HackelBury, booth B02. A solo presentation of new unique works by the American twins Doug and Mike Starn, from their Under the Sky series. HackelBury has worked with the Starns for more than twenty years. See the post.

Michael Hoppen Gallery, booth B41. The Chelsea gallery, which has supported Paris Photo since its first edition in 1997, leads with Tim Walker's Hungry aka Johannes Jaruraak and Octopus (after Hokusai), made in London in 2024 and part of Walker's exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. The stand mixes vintage and contemporary prints by twenty-two photographers, among them Cecil Beaton, Man Ray, Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Sarah Moon, Miroslav Tichý and Deborah Turbeville. See the post.

From San Francisco and New York

Fraenkel Gallery, booth B34. The British photographer Richard Learoyd makes his pictures with a camera obscura the size of a room, and Fraenkel is showing The boy with a thorn in his side, of 2026, which Learoyd says "straddles St. Sebastian and The Smiths". The gallery is also posting other works from the booth through the week, among them Martine Gutierrez's Dress Up series, in which she collages imagined clothes over her own nude self-portraits. See the Learoyd post and the Gutierrez post.

Howard Greenberg Gallery, booth C24. The London-based photographer Nadav Kander was in conversation at the booth before the fair opened, and the gallery is taking orders for Kander's new book on the Thames Estuary, Dark Line, published by GOST. The rest of the stand runs from Edward Steichen's Lotus, Mt. Kisco, New York, of 1915, to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Vivian Maier, Gordon Parks, Weegee, Edward Burtynsky and Hiro. See the Kander post and the full list.

Paris Photo 2026 booth guide

Booth	Exhibitor	What to see
B02	HackelBury, London	Doug and Mike Starn, Under the Sky
B34	Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco	Richard Learoyd, Martine Gutierrez
B41	Michael Hoppen Gallery, London	Tim Walker, Cecil Beaton, Daido Moriyama
C01	BMW Art Makers	Lara Tabet, Vitreous Body
C24	Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York	Nadav Kander, Edward Steichen, Vivian Maier
C34	Hamiltons, London	Hiro, Game Fowl Polaroids, 1981
D24	Prismes sector	Viktoria Binschtok, winner of the Prix DUO with Klemm's
K02	Aperture	Photobooks, signings and prints
P02	Prix Pictet	Valérie Belin, Alfredo Jaar

Buying at Paris Photo

Most of what is on the stands is for sale. Before you buy a photograph, ask when the print was made, how large the edition is and which number you are buying, and get an invoice that records the title, date, print size, process and edition number. A print made close to the date of the negative and a later print of the same image can be far apart in value, and our review of the photography market in 2026 covers what has sold this year. Our guide to famous photographers covers the names that come up most often.

Paris Photo questions

When does Paris Photo 2026 close? On Sunday 15 November, at 7pm.

Where is Paris Photo? At the Grand Palais, near the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

How many galleries are at Paris Photo 2026? 197 galleries and 49 publishers, showing more than 1,200 artists.

Who won the Prix DUO in 2026? Viktoria Binschtok and Klemm's of Berlin.

If you own photographs

Whitebank Fine Art acts as an art advisor for buyers who want a second opinion before they commit. If you own photographs and are thinking of selling, send us pictures of the print, front and back, through our art valuation page. There is no obligation to sell, and we act for you rather than for the saleroom.

Cover: William Henry Fox Talbot, The Open Door, 1844, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Anna Atkins, Dictyota dichotoma, in the young state and in fruit, from Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, about 1843 to 1853, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.