Inside Europe's most prestigious photography festival —
Night Explosion by Shirley Wegner, 2013
Paris Photo was founded in 1996 to connect international galleries with collectors and museum acquisition teams. This year, the fair featured 143 galleries from 35 countries, and was attended by major players from institutions like London's Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But Frydman is most pleased with the 10 percent increase in general attendance, though he doesn't find the public's interest in photography at all surprising.
"This is the medium of the 21st century," he says. "We are now generations that have grown with images around us."