Paris Photo 2026 - Main Sector Booth A57 : Sylvie Bonnot, Antoine De Winter, Véronique Ellena, Alice Pallot
Grand Palais, Paris
Booth A47 - Main Sector
To mark the Bicentenary of Photography, Hangar brings together four of its artists whose distinct photographic practices illustrate the vitality of the medium, from experimentation with techniques to the observation of living subjects.
- Sylvie Bonnot (FR – 1982) continues to explore her distinctive practice of ‘moulting’ and demonstrates that, two hundred years on, it is possible to develop a new silver-based photographic technique. She draws a parallel between the depletion of photographic materials and that of water resources. In her series Prisme Liquide, her ‘moultings’ undulate or burst forth in a torrent, sometimes leaving nothing but ‘drops’ of image.
- Antoine De Winter (BE - 1985) revives ancient and sometimes forgotten techniques from the early days of photography: cyanotype, anthracotype, and salt print. By incorporating rock or salt from the landscapes he evokes as pigments and adorning them with gold leaf, his works become precious fragments of a place’s memory, the subject of his ongoing series All the places and the places between.
- Véronique Ellena (FR – 1966), with her series Clairs Obscurs, praises the analog negative, enlarged and presented as it is: light becomes shadow and shadow becomes light. The colours are not of this world but the reflection of a poetic inner world, a bridge between past and present, between painting and photography.
- Alice Pallot (FR – 1995) presents a preview of her new series Birdwatchers, initiated as part of a commission from Louis Vuitton for its City Book New York 2027 in collaboration with Tendance Floue. Through her encounters with various birdwatching communities in New York, she explores birdwatching as a practice of mindfulness: a way of connecting with living things through patience, distance and contemplation, where the simple act of observing becomes a means of building community and experiencing the city in a different way.
Paris Photo - 29th edition
