For photography enthusiasts, the City of Lights was the place to be this past weekend. Paris Photo hosted a colorful cast of gallerists, collectors, artists, and Parisiens under the ornate Beaux-Arts dome of the Grand Palais for the seventeenth edition of the international art fair.
The photographer Robin Siegel was among the more than fifty-five thousand visitors to the four-day-long festival, where big-name photographers like Sophie Calle, Raymond Depardon, and Sebastião Salgado mingled with the likes of Roman Polanski. “While it’s a veritable feast for the eyes at Paris Photo, what intrigues me most of all is the action going on around town related to the fair, providing a great opportunity to meet many of the photographers whose work is displayed at the Grand Palais,” Siegel said. There was a lunch-turned-poetry-reading at galerie du jour agnès b.; the indie-photobook fair Offprint Paris, at École des Beaux-Arts; book signings at the concept store Colette; and late-night parties at David Lynch’s club Silencio.
Paris Photo’s American installment will take place from April 25-27, 2014, at the Paramount Pictures Studios, in Los Angeles. Here is a selection of Siegel’s photographs from the festival.