The Italian city of Turin is heading to Paris Photo for the first time, and it is bringing a vintage analogue photo booth with it. Torino: fotografia, a joint project from CAMERA, the Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Intesa Sanpaolo's Gallerie d'Italia in Turin and the EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival, will have a stand at the fair dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the photo booth. Paris Photo, the largest international fair dedicated to photography, runs from 12 to 15 November 2026 at the Grand Palais in Paris.

The photo booth was invented in 1925, with the first booths opening in Times Square in New York in 1926 and in Paris in 1928. Designed to produce identity photographs, it was quickly adopted by artists as a tool for experimentation: the four frames of a strip become a narrative, the sequence creates rhythm and tension, and the juxtaposition of images opens up new ways of telling a story. To mark the centenary, the Turin stand will be a working space rather than a conventional exhibition.

Throughout the fair, well-known photographers will be invited to use a vintage analogue booth supplied by Autofoto to create a work live, with each strip going straight onto the walls of the stand. Watching established photographers work within its strict constraints of four frames, fixed lighting and no retakes should make for one of the fair's more memorable stands.

Turin will also use the trip to present the 2027 edition of the EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival. The presentation takes place on Saturday 14 November at noon at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Paris and will preview the programme for the festival's fourth edition, which runs in Turin from April to June 2027. The 2026 festival drew more than 100,000 visitors, and Turin has built a strong reputation as a photography city in recent years, with CAMERA welcoming more than 700,000 visitors since opening in 2015 and the Gallerie d'Italia, opened in 2022, housing the Publifoto Intesa Sanpaolo archive of more than seven million images.