Sectors & curators

Main & Prismes projects

The Main sector hosts 180 international galleries exhibiting historical and contemporary photographs as well as image-based arts, offering the broadest overview of the medium. Incorporated into the Main sector, the Prismes projects explore uses of the image in a diverse range of practices, in dialogue with other media: exceptional projects, very large formats, series and sculptural installations, video art.

Voices

Paris Photo invites two renowned curators to select artists from the international scene for the Voices sector. They are invited to create a proposal centred on contemporary themes aiming to spotlight or revisit artistic scenes and practices, or to pursue a curatorial thread within a shared space.

The 2026 curators are:

– Zasha Colah, Indian curator and writer. Since 2023, she has been co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst in Bolzano, Italy. She curated the 13th Berlin Biennale (2025).

– Francesco Zanot, Italian curator, writer and lecturer. Since 2019, he has been artistic director of the Foto/ Industria biennial (Fondazione MAST, Bologna).

Digital

Since 2023, Paris Photo has been the first fair in Europe to dedicate a specific programme to photography and the image in the digital age. The sector presents a selection of contemporary art galleries and curated platforms at the forefront of new technologies.

The curator of the 2026 edition is Marco De Mutiis :

– Marco De Mutiis is Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, where he leads the museum research on algorithmic and networked forms of image-making.

Emergence 

The Emergence sector features 20 galleries and showcases solo artist presentations, offering a space for discovering new international scenes. Located along the walkways on the first floor of the Grand Palais, it overlooks the nave.

Book

The Book sector features publishing houses and book dealers, presenting photography books, limited editions, printed works, multiples and artist’s books.
Publishers are selected by a committee of specialists from the world of publishing.


 

Voices Sector: Zasha Colah & Francesco Zanot

For its third edition, the Voices sector continues its exploration of the international scene by welcoming two new curators. They are invited to create a proposal centred on contemporary themes in order to spotlight an artistic scene or a specific medium practice.

Zasha Colah
Curator and writer

Zasha Colah is an Indian curator and writer. Since 2023, she is co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst, BozenBolzano´s kunstverein.

She co-edits Novellas, a series of books devoted to experimental writing, and collaborates on the podcast series POST IT (Rai Alto Adige, Rai Radio 1). She curated the 13th Berlin Biennale (2025), the 2nd Yinchuan Biennale (curatorial team led by Marco Scotini, 2018), and the 3rd Pune Biennale (with Luca Cerizza, 2017). She lectures in comparative curatorial studies at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (Milano, 2018–) and is on the editorial board of Geoarchivi (Meltemi & NABA) a series of books that reopen rebellious archives at different geopolitical latitudes.

She is currently a visiting fellow at Städelschule (2025– 26) where she lectures on processual and performative sculpture and its implication on contemporary forms of exhibiting.

Francesco Zanot
Curator, writer and lecturer
 

Francesco Zanot is a photography curator, writer and lecturer. Chief curator of Camera, Turin, from 2015 to 2017, he has curated personal exhibitions and books with and about artists such as Boris Mikhailov (Diary, Walther König, Cologne), Francesco Jodice (Panorama, Mousse, Milan), Takashi Homma (Widows, Fantombooks, Milan), Erik Kessels (The Many Lives, Aperture, New York), Linda Fregni Nagler (The Hidden Mother, MACK, London), Luigi Ghirri (Kodachrome, MACK, London).

His essays have been published in monographs on the work of several photographers and, together with Alec Soth, he is the author of the book Ping Pong Conversations (Contrasto, Rome). Director of the Master in Photography organised by NABA in Milan, he gave lectures and seminars in variousinstitutions worldwide, such as the Columbia University in New York, ECAL in Lausanne, IUAV in Venice, Universidad Politecnica in Valencia. Associate editor of curatorial platform Fantom ever since its foundation, he curated the inaugural exhibitions Give Me Yesterday, and Stefano Graziani: Questioning Pictures at Fondazione Prada Osservatorio in Milan.

Since 2019 he’s artistic director of the of Foto/Industria biennial, organized by MAST Foundation in Bologna. His last book, Irrational, written together with Francesco Jodice, has been published by SPBH in Summer 2025.

Last editions

2025: 
– Dr Devika Singh, Curator, art critic and art historian 
– Nadine Wietlisbach, Director of Fotomuseum Winterthur 

2024: 
– Elena Navarro, FotoMexico Founder, Independent Curator
– Azu Nwagbogu, LagosPhoto Festival Founder and President, Independent Curator
– Sonia Voss, Independent Curator

Digital Sector: Marco De Mutiis

Established in 2023 as a European pioneer in programming dedicated to digital art, the Digital sector will this year be led by a new curator, Marco de Mutiis.

Marco De Mutiis
Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur

Marco De Mutiis is Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, where he leads the museum research on algorithmic and networked forms of image-making. He has recently co-curated the exhibition The Lure of the Image and How to Win at Photography – Image-making as Play. He is the co-author of The Photographer’s Guide to Los Santos, and co-editor of Screen Images – In-Game Photography, Screenshot, Screencast.

Last editions

2023, 2024, 2025: Nina Roehrs, Expert on art in the digital age