Camera Obscura: Reality Is Not Enough

Galerie Camera Obscura takes part in this year’s edition of Paris Photo with a selection of internationally renowned artists who share a strong poetic vein, and a taste for the surreal.

Cover Photo by Bernard Plossu

Coming from different corners of the world, genres of photography and thematic interests, artists like Sarah Moon, Jungjin LEE, Michael Ackerman share a capability to transfigure the mundane and lift it into an altered state, between reality and imagination.

Artist Masao Yamamoto doesn’t even give a title to his artwork, nor does he provide a date for it. “I like the idea that my images give the feeling of anonymous photos, that they retain a certain mystery... that everyone appropriates them and invents their own story from them”.

Camera Obscur a Gallery’s exhibition is on view at the Grand Palais as part of Paris Photo, until November 10.