We are delighted to announce our return this year to Paris Photo!
From extreme violence to black humour
For our third year as an exhibitor at Paris Photo, °CLAIRbyKahn explores photography as a powerful tool for recording and processing violence, showcasing pieces by artists who work from a place of compassion, and, from time to time, with a hint of irony.
Roger Ballen delves into psychic pain, Thomas Dworzak confronts the Caucasus, Seán Hillen makes uncanny juxtapositions, Edward Kaprov has a unique vision of the war in Ukraine, Shigeichi Nagano documents the 1960 Tokyo Anpo protests, Éric Schwab records the liberation of the WWII concentration camps, and Patrick Zachmann and Yves Samuel consider the aftermath of the 2015 terrorist Paris attacks.
Our selection tests the limits of the photographic medium, linking works by multidisciplinary artists whose practices bridge fiction and journalism and incorporate collage and drawing.
In parallel to the fair, Yves Samuel’s work will be shown in an unprecedented exhibition by the RATP in partnership with the Museum and Memorial of Terrorism (MMT) from 11 to 17 November in the République metro station on the platform of line 11.
Find a short film featuring Yves Samuel and the work of Éric Schwab on our YouTube channel.
Two of our artists will be signing monographs in our booth: Roger Ballen at 15:00 on 13 November and Yves Samuel at 15:00 on 14 November. Samuel’s signing will coincide with the release of his new book, prefaced by François Molins and published by Fisheye.
A young man checks the numbers tattooed on the arms of Jewish Polish prisoners coming from Auschwitz, in Dachau concentration camp in late April or early May 1945, after the Dachau camp was liberated by the US army on April 29, 1945. © Eric Schwab / AFP
The fair takes place from 13 to 16 November at the Grand Palais, we’ll be at booth C04!
View and download the press release here
