Conversations

Carmen Winant, The Last Safe Abortion, 2024 – Courtesy of the artist & SPBH Editions

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Each year, Paris Photo presents a series of Conversations held over the four days of the fair, bringing together artists, curators, critics, and other leading figures from the art world.

In 2025, the program includes a conversation with Sophie Ristelhueber, as well as an open seminar at the Sorbonne led by Michel Poivert with his Master’s students. Carmen Winant and Martine Gutierrez will offer two readings-performances. A preview screening of the film Ferdinandea by Clément Cogitore is also scheduled. In addition, a discussion on the theme AI Agents as Artists will focus on the challenges of artificial intelligence in artistic creation. The one-hour-long conversations will be held in the auditorium of the Grand Palais, four times a day.

Thursday Nov. 13

2 p.m.

Sophie Ristelhueber in conversation with Laure Adler
In partnership with Hasselblad Foundation

3:30 p.m.

Recording Forever, public lecture of Sorbonne University
Michel Poivert

5 p.m.

Conversation between David Alekhuogie and Sama Alshaibi, moderated
by Morad Montazami

6:30 p.m.

Chemistry, Extraction and Sustainability
Pablo Larios – Dionne Lee, Michelle Henning, Aspen Mays
In partnership with Artforum 

Friday Nov. 14

2 p.m.

What is a feminist picture?
A performative lecture by Carmen Winant followed by a conversation with Gem Fletcher

3:30 p.m.

Photography in Transition: From Printed Page to Museum Wall
Nadine Wietlisbach – Shirana Shahbazi, Manuel Krebs 

5 p.m.

Art, AI and Agency in Flux
Charlotte Kent - Alkan Avcıoğlu, Kristi Coronado, Gene Kogan, Emi Kusano, Hedda Roman 

6:30 p.m.

Material Futures
Pablo Larios – Jeff Wall, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Florian Ebner
In partnership with Artforum

Saturday 15 Nov.

2 p.m.

Lottery
Performance by Martine Gutierrez 

3:30 p.m.

Second skin/Double skin
Marie Perennès – Estrellita Brodsky, Tania Franco Klein, Martine Gutierrez

4:45 p.m.

Introduction of Elles x Paris Photo by Emmanuelle Denavit-Feller, Florence Bourgeois and Devrim Bayar

5 p.m.

Conversation between Liz Johnson Artur and Luna Mahoux, moderated by Devrim Bayar

6:30 p.m.

Conversation and preview screening of Ferdinandea, l’île éphémère
Alexia Fabre – Clément Cogitore, Kathryn Weir

Sunday 16 Nov.

2 p.m.

When Fashion Becomes Art
Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet – Simon Porte Jacquemus and David Luraschi 

3:30 p.m.

Photography as a Collective Practice: The Case of the All–Japan Students’ Photo Association
Marc Feustel – Yasufumi Nakamori, Damarice Amao, Julie Jones

5 p.m.

Cosmology – the intertwined journeys of seven contemporary women photographers
Pauline Vermare – Marcelline Delbecq, Eléonore False, Marina Gadonneix, Agnès Geoffray, Constance Nouvel, Aurélie Pétrel, Stéphanie Solinas