Paris Photo 2025
Grand Palais, Paris
13–16 November 2025 (Opening Preview: 12 November)

Les Filles du Calvaire (Booth C31) & Augusta Edwards Fine Art (Booth B4)

Karen Knorr will be present and exhibiting works at the upcoming Paris Photo with Les Filles du Calvaire and Augusta Edwards Fine Art.

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) 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. Belgravia is a series of images and texts which describe class and power amongst the global and wealthy elites residing in Belgravia during the early years of Thatcherism. The meaning of the work can be found in the space between image and text: neither text nor image illustrate each other, but create a “third meaning” to be completed by the spectator. 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.