Sophie Ristelhueber in conversation with Laure Adler

About

For almost five decades, Ristelhueber has traversed the territories of Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia, bearing witness not to current events, but to History.
A History in which traces of disaster and ruins accumulate, intertwine, and become archetypes. Winner of the 2025 Hasselblad Award, the artist will open the Paris Photo program in conversation with Laure Adler.

Sophie Ristelhueber, Beyrouth, Résidence des pins, 1984/2016 — Courtesy of the artist & Galerie Poggi © ADAGP

Sophie Ristelhueber © Léa Crespi

With Sophie Ristelhueber

For nearly fifty years, Sophie Ristelhueber, winner of the 2025 Hasselblad Award, has expanded the boundaries of the photographic medium through a distinctive approach to ruins and to the traces left by humanity on landscapes scarred by war and natural upheavals.