PARIS.- Since 2020, Photo Days has invited visitors to a unique photographic experience in and around Paris. Throughout the month, museums, cultural institutions, galleries, foundations, private collections and artist studios collaborate with Photo Days to showcase the full diversity of the world’s photographic production to enthusiasts and the curious alike. From November 3rd to the 30th, Photo Days will guide you from one bank of the Seine to the other for an exceptional immersive experience.

Exhibitions

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

Juliette AGNEL . The susceptibility of Rocks
6 – 30 November 2025, at
L’ECOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, 16bis boulevard Montmartre, Paris 9e

Photo Days and Van Cleef and Arpels invite Juliette Agnel to take over the Atelier of L’ÉCOLE, echoing the exhibition Stones and Reveries: The Poetry and Minerals of Roger Caillois presented upstairs. The susceptibility of Rocks brings together a selection of her photographic works on minerals —Portes de glace, Géode de Pulpí, Silex— accompanied by new artworks created for this occasion in the Mineral Collection of Sorbonne University.

Julie BALAGUÉ . Anatomie de l’invisible
3 November – 12 December 2025, at
Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, 83 boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris 13e

For its first collaboration with the Saint-Louis Chapel at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Photo Days invites Julie Balagué to present her new series Anatomie de l’invisible (Anatomy of the Invisible). In it, the artist explores the phenomenon of pregnancy denial, rarely addressed outside of news stories. She offers a social, political, and sensitive interpretation—a mirror held up to the treatment of women's bodies in our society.

Yan CARPENTER . Giro nos Acessos
7 – 30 November 2025, at
Sorbonne Artgallery, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e

Photo Days invites Yan Carpenter to the Sorbonne for his first solo show in France, presented in partnership with SAM Art Projects and Sorbonne Artgallery. Winner of the SAM 2024 residency, Yan is a self-taught photographer, DJ, history teacher, and former drummer, and has developed a photographic practice rooted in his daily life in the heart of the favelas where he grew up. Through his lens, he captures fragments of life—gestures, faces, suspended moments—that convey the vitality and complexity of a territory that is often misrepresented.

Sandra GULDEMANN DUCHATELLIER . une fable Égyptienne
3 November 2025 – 4 January 2026, at
Le Louxor, cinema’s Salon on the 2nd floor, 170 boulevard Magenta, Paris 10e

For the first time, Photo Days is taking over the Louxor cinema, an Art Deco gem with Egyptian-inspired architecture and a mecca for Parisian cinema. This collaboration was born out of a unique project presented during the 2024 portfolio reviews: Sandra Guldemann Duchatellier traces the history of her family, who were Syrian Melkite Christians who fled to Egypt at the end of the 19th century. She combines photographs taken by her grandfather, who was forced to leave Egypt in 1961, with her own images taken between 2022 and 2024. This encounter between past and present gives rise to a visual narrative that is both documentary and poetic, where fragments compose a reinvented memory.

Antoine SCHNECK. Presences
3 November 2025 – 31 January 2026, at
Studio Harcourt, 6 rue de Lota · Paris 16e

Studio Harcourt and Photo Days present a broad panorama of works by Antoine Schneck, marking the encounter between two distinct visions of portraiture. The historical and stylised elegance of Studio Harcourt meets the rigorous and contemplative approach of Antoine Schneck, who turns portraiture into an exercise in revelation.

Paolo VENTURA . Night Walks
5 – 28 November 2025, at
Rotonde Balzac, Fondation des Artistes, Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, 11 rue Berryer · Paris 8e

Photo Days gives carte blanche to Paolo Ventura in the Rotonde Balzac, a hidden gem in the gardens of the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild. With Promenades de nuit (Night Walks), the Italian artist creates a series inspired by Balzac’s life and universe. In a dreamlike Paris of deserted streets and flickering lamplight, his images portray a melancholic, silent city. Blending fiction, memory and historical setting, Ventura constructs a visual narrative where each photograph becomes a fragment of a novel. In echo with Balzac’s imagination, the Rotonde transforms into an intimate stage where photography reads like a shadowy piece of literature.