Paris Photo 2021: Online Viewing Rooms

Launching November 11 at 11am CET, extend your experience of Paris Photo online and peruse over 2000 artworks from 195 galleries and 30 art book dealers from 30 countries worldwide. Paris Photo Online Viewing Rooms (OVR), designed and built by Artlogic—a leader in online solutions for the art world—will run from November 11–14 alongside the fair at the Grand Palais Ephémère in Paris and exclusively online after the fair has closed until November 17. Easily search and discover by artist, period, price or exhibitor, and list your favourites or discover artworks through curator selections. Paris Photo also presents exclusive online programming with digital exhibitions, podcasts, and more.

Reserve your OVR access beginning November 11 at 11am CET. Register at parisphoto.viewingrooms.com.

Curator Favourites
Six curators will share different perspectives on the medium through a selection of personal favourites among the online proposals. Explore the fair online with Damarice Amao (Curator of photography, MNAM-Centre Pompidou), Sunil Gupta (artist, writer, curator and teacher), Antoine de Galbert (French collector and patron), Sarah Meister (executive director, Aperture), Nathalie Herschdorfer (director, Musée des beaux-arts de Locle) and Shoair Mavlian (director, Photoworks).

OVR Exhibitors
View the list of 195 galleries and art books dealers from 30 countries including OVR only exhibitors: ACB (Budapest), Akio Nagasawa (Tokyo), Arnika Dawkins (Atlanta), Einspach (Budapest), Equinox (Vancouver), Lelong & Co. (Paris), Louise Alexander (Los Angeles), Momentum (Miami), Nap (Tokyo), Presença (Porto), Stephen Bulger (Toronto), Stephen Daiter (Chicago), The Ravestijn Gallery (Amsterdam), This Is No Fantasy (Melbourne), Utópica (São Paulo), Yumiko Chiba (Tokyo).

Programming
Presented online for the very first time, discover An Overwhelming Illusion, featuring new media works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection as well as this year’s Curator’s Highlights, a selection of artworks and acquistions from Paris Photo 2021 exhibiting galleries.

Direct from Panama, view Paris Photo’s first exclusively online exhibition with a selection of works by Carlos Endara presented by Fototeca de Panama. The exhibition documents the famous construction of the Panama Canal, known locally as the French Canal (1876–1904) with photographs taken between 1887 and 1904, documenting not only the progress of the construction, but also the settlement of the French emigration, including in the Caribbean.
Don’t miss special online-only content by Zoë Ghertner from the exhibition made you vanishfor Chloé, a visual narrative that reveals the connections between the natural world and the one we shape. Ghertner’s work frames the conditions in which women experience their own image.

This year Paris Photo is also proud to host The Together Project, a unique platform created by Balmain in support of (RED). Each year, an artist is given carte blanche to explore the symbolism of intimacy and human relationships, to celebrate the beauty of the bonds between two individuals—parents, lovers, friends… (RED) is a philantrhopic partner supported by Balmain, Sofitel, Leica and Paris Photo. Proceeds from the sale of limited edition works and donations fund (RED)’s fight to respond to health emergencies and to end pandemics such as AIDS and HIV.

Podcasts
Listen to unique voices as they explore highlights and different perspectives at Paris Photo 2021 with two new podcasts daily from November 11–14 presented in collaboration with the magazines Foam and Something We Africans Got.

Foam Talks: Talent Edition is a podcast presenting eight talented image-makers from both the fair’s Curiosa Sector and Foam Talent 2021. Each of the four episodes welcomes two photographers, one of each organisations’ talent programme. Brought together by a common theme and approach, the photographers speak about their projects and motivations, as well as the challenges they encounter. With guests : Sarker Protick, Anamary Bilbao, Elisa Medde, Igor Tereshkov, Anastasia Samoylova, David Campany, Heather Agyepong, John Yuyi, Hinde Haest, Simon Lehner, Victoria Pidust and Shoair Malvian.

The review Something We Africans Got and SWAG high profiles, its magazine version, launch this podcast series exclusively with Paris Photo 2021. For this 24th edition of the fair, the podcast explores photography, arts and critical thinking in the various episodes while providing a voice to African viewpoints in a broader conversation leading to different perspectives ein resonance with the editorial line of the publications.

Discover the full programme online at parisphoto.viewingrooms.com.