Paris Photo Shows to See

Paris is hosting five must‑see photography exhibitions right now, promising documentary and contemporary cityscapes that’re a boon for urban‑landscape shooters and gallery‑hop planners Photo exhibitions in Paris: five must-see visual journeys to discover right now.

The Jeu de Paume’s “Martin Parr. Global Warning” brings together about 180 photographs and five thematic sections from the 1970s to 2024. expo.paris The retrospective was curated by Quentin Bajac and was completed with the artist before his death on December 6, 2025, making the show both a career survey and a posthumous testament. museemagazine.com La MEP’s “Dana Lixenberg — American Images” is the photographer’s first institutional solo show in Paris, running from February 11 to May 24, 2026, and it assembles over three decades of U.S. portrait projects including her long‑term Imperial Courts series. expo.paris The season at the Maison Européenne also programs studio shows by Joel Quayson and Johny Pitts alongside Lixenberg’s survey. mep-fr.org LE BAL’s Guido Guidi retrospective, “Col Tempo, 1956–2024,” presents the artist’s work in eighteen photographic sequences conceived with the MAXXI museum and runs through May 24, 2026. le-bal.fr The show includes archival material and, by some counts, more than 400 historical prints and documents drawn from the artist’s archive. tram-idf.fr Paris’s Hôtel de Ville is hosting a free, reservation‑only tribute to Sebastião Salgado from February 21 to May 30, 2026, featuring nearly 200 prints that trace his five‑decade career. paris.fr The show’s scenography was overseen by Lélia Wanick Salgado and includes a significant loan of 114 prints from the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. presseagence.fr The Grand Palais presents “Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well,” a nationwide tour stop and the first French retrospective to foreground her slideshows and filmic diaporamas, on view from March 18 to June 21, 2026. grandpalais.fr The presentation occupies both the Salon d’honneur and the Chapelle Saint‑Louis de la Salpêtrière, emphasizing Goldin’s hybrid photography‑as‑cinema practice. gagosian.com

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