The 2011 edition marks an important shift for Paris Photo, with a new venue at the Grand Palais and Julien Frydman as its new Director. This prestigious venue will without a doubt, add to Paris Photo's unique international position and make it an even greater fixture of Paris' vibrant artistic and cultural scene. Taking African photography as its special theme, Paris Photo 2011 pays tribute to the rich breadth and diversity of work produced by the continent’s creative talent in this field, from Bamako to Cape Town.

Dorelia Baird-Smith / dorelia@claudinecolin.com

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of William Eggleston in Los Angeles with an exhibition of photographs selected from the Election Eve series of 1976. These photographs have never been printed or exhibited before.

This fall, the Petit Palais will present an exhibition dedicated to the theme of woman in India, questioning how have their roles has evolved over the past years? How the feminization of Indian society brings changes to the rest of the continent? Sponsored by BNP Paribas and organised in collaboration with Magnum photos, this exhibition commemorates 150 years of operations in India (1860-2010). The exhibition will be presented in Paris, after having been shown in India, Italy, Belgium and England

Albane Champey/ albane@claudinecolin.com

For the one year anniversary since the launch of this new space, Le BAL is presenting works and videos created since 2000, which deal with the documentary image, particularly focusing on sites, positions, geological spaces and territories in zones of conflict. Curated by Jean-Yves Jouannais and Diane Dufour, these topographic essays provide a different approach to understanding the meaning of war.

Press preview on Friday 16 Septembre from 11am to 1pm

Albane Champey / albane@claudinecolin.com

The Rencontres d’Arles is one of the leading international photography festivals in the world. The festival has been playing a major part in achieving recognition for photography as an art form since 1970. Every year, the Rencontres d’Arles presents 60 different exhibitions in 20 locations in the town of Arles, South of France.

Directed by François Hébel, this year’s programme will turn the spotlight on Mexico, from the Mexican Revolution to contemporary photography. This will be presented alongside the 10th Anniversary of the Rencontres d’Arles Awards, the 30th Anniversary of the New York Time Magazine, and a string of exhibitions including From Here On a new manifesto on photography in the age of the internet, a retrospective dedicated to Chris Marker, a special project by Wang Qingsong, along with an ambitious programme of evening screenings, concerts and events throughout the city of Arles.

The 42nd Rencontres d’Arles will take place from 4th July to 18th September 2011, with the opening week from Monday 4th- Sunday 10th July 2011.

This is the first exhibition dedicated to Cy Twombly's photography in France. Also in Arles, at la Chapelle du Méjean, two artists will be exhibited: Douglas Gordon and Miquel Barceló.

Valentine Dolla / Valentine Dolla

Curated by Jeannette Zwingenberger, this exhibition explores representations of cannibalism, from Greek mythology (Saturn, Polyphemus and Tantalus) to 19th century vampire legends, along with travel writings of New World explorers and children's fairytale giants. The exhibition will bring together historical pieces (paintings, drawings, engravings and scholar books) and contemporary artworks (Oda Jaune, Jana Sterbak, Philippe Mayaux, Michel Journiac, Mathew Barney, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Wangechi Mutu, Gilles Barbier, Wim Delvoye, etc.)

Julie Martinez / julie@claudinecolin.com

Jean Pigozzi's contemporary African art collection (one of the most important ones in the world), will be displayed for the first time alongside works by young Japanese artists under the age of 30. Over the past few years, Pigozzi has acquired several hundred such works, which have never been shown in public before. This duality, the echoes and discords between these two cultures, will be explored at the MAGASIN in an exhibition curated by Carsten Höller.

Valentine Dolla / valentine@claudinecolin.com

The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams

The Life that Came

In 1999, Alessandra Sanguinetti (born in 1968) began to work on a series of photographs which registers the saga of two young cousins named Guille and Belinda, then nine and ten years old. Cultivating an intimate relationship with the pair over the past five years, Sanguinetti collaborates with the girls to construct images fuelled by the dreams, fantasies, and fears that accompany the psychological and physical transition from childhood to adulthood, with the Argentinean countryside as a backdrop.

Albane Champey / albane@claudinecolin.com

Proximity and evidence make us blind: France is unaware of the inventiveness, the diversity and the current creative agitation of some of our closest neighbours. ABC is an exhibition that does not claim to be a comprehensive portrayal of the diversity of the contemporary scene in Belgium. The disciplines most particularly taught and practiced at Le Fresnoy have formed the criteria of priority for selection purposes: photography, film, video, installation, performance and choreography..

About forty artists will be shown like : Stephan BALLEUX, Orla BARRY, Pierre BISMUTH, Jef CORNELIS, Wim DELVOYE, Jan FABRE, Johan GRIMONPREZ, Anne Veronica JANSSENS, Gwendoline ROBIN, Sophie WHETTNALL…

Press opening: 7 October 2010

Katia Lhammi / katia@claudinecolin.com