Paris Photo 2026 at the Grand Palais: 246 exhibitors, hours, tickets

The 29th edition of Paris Photo opened to the public on Thursday 12 November at the Grand Palais. For four days, the fair celebrates two hundred years of photography with 246 exhibitors from 38 countries. Key figures, highlights, opening hours and ticket prices.

246 exhibitors from 38 countries

According to the press kit published by Paris Photo, the 2026 edition brings together 246 exhibitors: 199 galleries and 48 publishers, as one exhibitor can be both. They come from 38 countries and show the work of 1,260 artists. The fair counts 80 newcomers, among them the galleries Lia Rumma (Milan), Filomena Soares (Lisbon), Gregor Podnar (Vienna) and L’Atelier 21 (Casablanca). The 53 French galleries make up 27% of exhibitors. The 2025 edition drew 75,000 visitors.

Two centuries of photography in the nave

Held under the patronage of the French Ministry of Culture, the edition is, according to its director Florence Bourgeois, the first international event to celebrate the Bicentenary of Photography. Right at the entrance, Thomas Ruff, a leading figure of the Düsseldorf School, unfolds a 36-metre retrospective hang, tracing more than forty years of work with five galleries: David Zwirner, Konrad Fischer, Mai 36, Lia Rumma and Sprüth Magers. In the nave, Hans P. Kraus Jr. shows works made with the very first processes, by Louis Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot, Anna Atkins and Girault de Prangey. In counterpoint, Galerie Christophe Gaillard devotes a solo show to Isabelle Le Minh, who questions the history and limits of the medium, and Galerie Binome shows artists who put the materiality of the image to the test.

The Centre Pompidou invited with Révéler

Paris Photo has invited the Centre Pompidou to present Révéler, a display drawn from its photography collection. Around a hundred works by some thirty historical and contemporary artists are gathered there, many of them recent acquisitions. The display follows three themes, Making the image, To infinity and Identities, from the early 20th century to the present day. The curators are Damarice Amao and Florian Ebner, of the Centre Pompidou’s photography department, and Julie Jones, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie since February 2026.

Voices, Digital, Emergence: the other sectors

The Main sector brings together 152 galleries at the heart of the nave. The Voices sector, entrusted to Francesco Zanot and Zasha Colah, takes Disappearance as its theme: photography, conceived to preserve what might vanish, celebrates its bicentenary just as its own forms are changing. Digital, curated by Marco de Mutiis, looks at how technology is transforming the making and the perception of images. On the first floor, Emergence presents twenty monographic projects devoted to a new generation of artists, and the Editions sector gathers 48 publishers from 17 countries. The Elles x Paris Photo trail, entrusted to Aldeide Delgado, highlights women artists: they account for 38% of the artists on show in 2026, against 20% in 2018.

Pictet joins BMW as a partner

Geneva-based Pictet Group, founded in 1805 and specialised in wealth and asset management, becomes an official partner of the fair, alongside BMW, a partner for 24 years. The Prix Pictet, created in 2008 and devoted to photography and sustainability, is shown at Paris Photo for the first time, in a space in the nave gathering works by its laureates. A month earlier, the Grand Palais hosted Art Basel Paris 2026, the other major art fair of the Paris autumn.

Opening hours and ticket prices

Paris Photo is open to the public from 1pm to 8pm from Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 November, then from 1pm to 7pm on Sunday 15; VIP access holders enter from 10.30am. A ticket costs €36 on weekdays and €41 at the weekend. The €26 evening ticket gives access to the fair from 5pm to 8pm from Thursday to Saturday, and from 5pm to 7pm on Sunday; the student rate is also €26, and entry is free for children under 12. For a comparison with the painting market, see our ranking of the world’s most expensive paintings.

Information checked on 12 November 2026. Sources: Paris Photo 2026 press kit, press release on the Paris Photo 2026 exhibitors, Paris Photo press area.