The Paris Photo Fair, held annually in Paris, is the largest art photography fair
on the continent. Every year in November, the Parisian exhibition hall Grand Palais
is filled to the brim with hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of art photography enthusiasts – exhibition photography.
I invite you to read this subjective report, Jan Wajszczuk

Additionally - once every two years, also in November - events related
to Photography Month in Paris take place simultaneously. Both of these events have just ended.
I visited over sixty photography galleries and the Fotofever Paris photography fair in the lower halls of the Louvre.
What did I see?
Diversity, care, sometimes mediocrity, and also increasingly frequent departure from traditional photography in favor of transformed photography.

In many cases, the photograph begins to constitute a semi-finished product in creative activities,
most often leading in the final effect to graphics or collage.

Galleries and artists increasingly undertake to exhibit large-format works, constituting a symbolic element of metropolitan life, referring to symbolism where man becomes an objectified element.
Of course, I interpret this as a creative response to the world around us, a world of large human clusters, unification of needs, as well as similarities that we owe to widely available media (internet, outdoor advertising),
and also easy and fast travel around the world.

In many works, one can find what was, what is important and valuable for each individual. This difficult-to-identify sentimentalism manifests itself in the works of documentarians, in their family or sociological portraits they create.

There was no shortage of archival photography, photography by old masters. Anyone who would think that these photographs are no longer able to compete with contemporary ones is mistaken. The crafted lights and shadows, the care of preparation, the selection of subjects, constitute a worthy opponent to compete with modernity.

The number of galleries, the diversity of photographs, frames, their sizes, and thousands of people admiring this annual spectacle is overwhelming. It's important to find time for a break, for respite in this fervor – so as not to miss any important work and so that as many of them as possible remain in memory.