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Celebrating Photography, Celebrating Life, Celebrating Magnificent Humanity, Not Plagiarism Disservices

Year-Long Celebration Starts on Saturday

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 02, 2026

Yesterday: A Year-Long Celebration

Old: France set to stage a year-long celebration to mark 200 years of photography in 2026

The bicentenary will launch in autumn 2026 with a major exhibition-manifesto at the Grand Palais in Paris, developed in partnership with the Centre Pompidou and GrandPalaisRMN. This opening exhibition aims to showcase the breadth and quality of France's national photographic collections, which rank among the world's finest.

This coming Saturday we turn 20. We're proud to have reached this milestone on a high note, with a record number of whistleblowers and team members (community). We're well positioned to do this for many years to come as momentum is on our side (traffic likewise).

We don't plan something particularly special for Saturday. Instead we'll make the most of our 21^st year after Saturday. We have some things in the pipeline. █

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