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COLLABORATIONSection Welcomes Major Museums to Expand the Boundaries of Image Culture

This year’s PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai continues to gather important domestic and international museums and art institutions, jointly expanding the public dimension of photography and fostering cross-cultural exchange. Within theCOLLABORATIONsection, Maison Européenne de la Photographie presents a solo exhibition by Ilanit Illouz, whose work combines anthropological research with visual experimentation to explore forgotten historical spaces and the social and political narratives behind them. This project has been officially incorporated into the 2026“Spring of Sino-French Culture”festival, with special thanks to the Consulate General of France in Shanghai and the French Cultural Center for their support. DECK Photography Art Centre facilitates a cross-temporal dialogue between Singaporean documentary filmmaker Tan Pin Pin and artist Shi Yangkun, using the intersection of archival imagery and personal experience to reconsider the relationship between memory, image, and history.

The Digital Art Week Asia presents a cross-disciplinary exhibition platform showcasing the evolution of digital and new media art in Asia, featuring works that explore how emerging technologies reshape perception, identity, and narrative. In these works, digital art functions as a language of contemporary life, not merely as a tool. Straight Photography highlights the“charm of silver gelatin”with ten works spanning classical, modern, and contemporary photography, including Wang Bing’s Eclipse, currently China’s largest single silver gelatin print. Swatch Art Center presents cross-media artist Liu Chengxiang’s works, including Traces of Night, which reconstructs scenes of Shanghai at night frame by frame to repeatedly“remember”walking, and Chronocosm, a viewing installation compressing urban time. Fotografiska Shanghai presents a major solo exhibition of twentieth-century street photography master Vivian Maier, Unseen Work, coinciding with her centennial. The show includes rare black-and-white and color prints, images from her travels in Asia, moving image excerpts, and personal items such as Rolleiflex cameras. Instituto Cervantes de Shanghái, committed to fostering Sino-Western cultural exchange, presents Spanish artist Javier Riera’s solo exhibition. As an installation artist, Riera uses photography to document and extend his works while focusing on authentic interventions related to“landscape and temporal space,”closely aligned with the concepts of land art.