Paris Photo, Grand Palais

Another day, another fair. We’re very lucky here in Paris.

This was a few weeks ago, but it is always lovely to see so many artworks that look like they are dreams.

When a photograph looks like a painting, we’re at Paris Photo.

When a painting looks like a photo, perhaps we’re at Art Basel.

What happens when a photo looks like a photo and a painting looks like a painting?

We’re just at the National Geographic or Tate Britain, I guess!

Here is a little selection of some that jumped off the walls:

Marie Laure de Decker’s self portrait and Hrioshi Sugimoto’s white on black lightning gelatin photography piece are my two favourites. Feminist pieces with messages also speak to me, as do the abstract colour pieces.

Actually, quite simply put, the photographic version of what I love in painting: Frida’s Kahlo’s autoportraits and all sorts of Surrealist forms that weave between nature and nurture, intentional and unintentional, accidental and purposeful.

That is the kind of photography I am going to try out throughout the Christmas holidays in London.