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Submit 2-3 photographic works exploring the relationship between photographic images, reality, and belief for an October 2026 exhibition in Paris.
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Get matched →Believing the Image will take place in October 2026 at Zhen Yi Gallery in Paris's Marais district, marking 200 years of photography in France. The exhibition explores photography's enduring question: when we look at a photograph, are we seeing reality itself or only an image that convinces us to believe in it? The exhibition considers the photographic image not as a stable record of the world, but as something that frames, transforms, and shapes our perception of it.
Works that explore the relationship between the photographic image and reality, the tension between what is seen and what is believed, staging and manipulation, the boundaries between documentary and fiction, what remains outside the frame, illusion and visual ambiguity, the changing meaning of photographic images, and the role of the viewer in interpreting and believing an image. We welcome submissions in analogue and digital photography, experimental photography, photographic archives, found photographs, photographic installation, and photo-based mixed media.
Emerging and mid-career artists working with photography in its various forms. International applications are accepted.
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Zhen Yi Gallery, founded in 2025 by curator Evgeniya Makarshina, is a nomadic, research-driven curatorial platform based in Paris located in the Marais district, one of the city's main contemporary art destinations.