Paris Photo 2025
Grand Palais, Paris
13–16 November 2025
Opening Preview: 12 November
Book Signing of Fables and Other Stories
Filigranes Éditions, Stand K09
13 November, 3:15 – 4:00pm
Karen Knorr will be present at Paris Photo and will be signing copies of her book Fables and Other Stories with Filigranes Éditions on Thursday 13 November!
Fables and Other Stories, offers a unique immersion into Karen Knorr’s world with around forty photographs and eleven short stories for children written by Knorr herself. The publication accompanied the Matmut Pour Les Arts exhibition from earlier this year, which brought together recent works from Knorr’s newest series, Scavi, and emblematic photographs from Fables, India Song and Monogatari. In Fables and Other Stories, she uses subtle collages of animals, objects and architectural settings to question the authority of museums and heritage. Its visual dialogue, between reality and fiction, invites the reader to explore worlds mixing traditions and illusions, opening the way to a poetic reflection on the authenticity and power of the image.
Karen Knorr will also be exhibiting at the fair with with Les Filles du Calvaire and Augusta Edwards Fine Art. See further details below:
Les Filles du Calvaire, Booth C31
On view with Les Filles du Calvaire (Booth C31) will be selected photographs from Knorr’s co-authored series with Olivier Richon, Punks, alongside works by Laia Abril, Helena Almeida, Diana Markosian, Katrien de Blauwer, Katalin Ladik, Lore Stessel, Nelli Palomaki, and Marie Quéau. From 1976 to 1977, Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon documented the London punk scene revolving around the Roxy in Covent Garden and the Global Village in Charing Cross. The first prints from their Punks series were originally presented at The Photographers’ Gallery in 1978, and featured many years later, in 2012, at Tate Britain in the retrospective titled Another London.
Augusta Edwards Fine Art, Booth B40
Augusta Edwards Fine Art (Booth B40) will be exhibiting a selection of works from Ladies (2011) in a group presentation also including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Graham Smith, Elliott Erwitt, Genevieve Naylor, Martine Franck, Tom Wood, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Chris Killip, Ernest Stone, Josef Koudelka, and Todd Webb. First published in 2011 as a commission for POP magazine, Ladies is a contemporary take on London’s diversity and quotes Knorr’s black and white work of the early 1980s (Belgravia and Gentlemen) by referencing world events and the everyday through the use of text compiled from a questionnaire Knorr set to the photographed actresses/models.