Publish: Thursday 29 October 2026

The Italian city of Turin is heading to Paris Photo for the first time, and it’s bringing a vintage analogue photo booth with it. torino: fotografia, a joint project from CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Intesa Sanpaolo’s Gallerie d’Italia – Torino and the EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival, will have a stand at the fair dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the photo booth.

Paris Photo, the largest international art fair dedicated to photography, runs from 12 to 15 November 2026 at the Grand Palais in Paris.

A century of the photo booth

The photo booth was invented in 1925, with the first booths opening in Times Square, New York, in 1926 and in Paris in 1928. Designed to churn out identity photos, it was quickly picked up by artists as a tool for experimentation. The four frames of a strip become a narrative, the sequence creates rhythm and tension, and the juxtaposition of images opens up new ways of telling a story.

To mark the centenary, the torino: fotografia stand will be a working space rather than a conventional exhibition. Throughout the fair, well-known photographers will be invited to use a vintage analogue booth supplied by Autofoto to create a work live, with each strip going straight onto the walls of the stand.

We love this idea. The analogue photo booth is one of the few places where most people still encounter a chemical photographic process without realising it, and seeing established photographers work within its strict constraints of four frames, fixed lighting and no retakes should make for one of the more memorable stands at the fair.

EXPOSED 2027 preview

Turin will also use the trip to present the 2027 edition of the EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival. The presentation takes place on Saturday 14 November at 12pm at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Paris, and will preview the programme for the festival’s fourth edition, which runs in Turin from April to June 2027. The 2026 festival drew more than 100,000 visitors.

Turin has built a strong reputation as a photography city in recent years, with CAMERA, which has welcomed more than 700,000 visitors since opening in 2015, and the Gallerie d’Italia – Torino, which opened in 2022 and is home to the Publifoto Intesa Sanpaolo archive of more than seven million images.

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Where to find out more

Details of the EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival are available on the festival website, and more on CAMERA’s programme can be found at camera.to.