Paris Photo 2011

Paris Photo this year was held in the very grand, Grand Palais in the heart of the Parisian tourist centre. As essentially a photographic art fair primarily concerned with sales, it has the effect of removing photography from the more usual gallery and book setting and highlights the photograph as a very serious, collectable art object. Despite this, the event sits alongside many other smaller shows and fairs which make for an interesting excursion outside of academic work or personal practice. Here are some photos from my iphone:

There were  always lots of people around In Sook Kim's 'Saturday Night' 2007.

From 'Suburbia', Bill Owens

Tereza Vlckova

'Positiv-Negativ', Robert Kusmirowski, 2011

Images of Jupiter taken by Voyager, NASA

Apollo take-off, NASA

Asako Narahashi, from 'Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water', 2003

'Untitled', Jean-Claude Pondevie

'Breath', Tomohide Ikeya, 2008

Liz Hingley, 'Under Gods'

Atsushi Fujiwara

Vincent Fournier, from 'Space Project'

Xavier Veilhan

Xavier Veilhan

William Klein, 'Roma'

from'Nobody belongs to anybody', Rogerio Reis

Kristaq Sotiri

Andrea Graziosi

Walid Raad, from 'Lets be honest the weather helped', 1998-2006