SEGMENT 5

Segment 5 features coverage on outside-the-fair events & accompanying images.

“Created in 2014, Polycopies is a non-profit for the distribution and promotion of independent photographic publishing (books, multiples, paper objects and experimental publishing practices). Every year, Polycopies organizes its festival during the week of Paris-Photo, and transforms the boat Concorde-Atlantique, moored at the quays of the Seine, into a large ephemeral bookstore fully dedicated to photography books.”

- Polycopies website

Tasmin with Manual Editions

Part 2: Photo Saint Germain — CatchLight, The Change We Want to See: Documentary Practices Bringing New Visions Forward

“CatchLight and Fondation Carmignac explore innovation in visual journalism with two conversations and a reception presented in partnership with PhotoSaintGermain festival.” 

- CatchLight website

“The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris will celebrate the bold and exciting creations of Italian couturière Elsa Schiaparelli, who drew much of her inspiration from her close ties to the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. Nearly 20 years since the last retrospective devoted to Schiaparelli at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the time has come to revisit this extraordinary designer’s work, her innovative sense of feminine style, her sophisticated, often eccentric designs, and the thrill that she brought to the world of fashion.”

- Museum website

Shocking! by Elsa Schiaparelli

“Boris Mikhaïlov’s pioneering practice encompasses documentary photography, conceptual work, painting and performance. Since the 1960s, he has been creating a haunting record of the tumultuous changes in Ukraine that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disastrous consequences of its dissolution. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition brings together more than 800 images drawing on more than twenty of his most important series, up to his most recent work.”

- MEP website

“The exhibition uses the Photography Cabinet collection and documents from the Kandinsky Library to explore the tensions and ambivalence running through the production of the new photographic scene in Paris at the time: a pseudo-scientific fascination for so-called “exotic” cultures, fetishization and eroticization of black bodies, sharing in the renewal of ethnography and contributing to the elaboration of a new image of the nation. ”

- Centre Pompidou website

“Photography allows me to represent the transitory nature of things, highlighting how everything melts into a never-ending universal flow. This is what shaped my most recent work. This current series is my way of trying to break away from a binary view of life and death to see them instead as two sides of the same looking glass that we must pass through: one cannot exist without the other.”

- Artist’s website

Veronica and I

And finally, some images from my last look at this year’s fair…