Paul Napo is a French photographer living and working in Ireland.
All of his work revolves around a common theme: normal people’s intimacy.
EXHIBITIONS
À la manière de..., collective exhibition - Nikon Plaza, Paris, FRANCE (January 2024)
Festival Photaumnales, collective exhibition “Look de sport” - Beauvais, FRANCE (September - December 2023)
Festival Image Satellite, collective exhibition “Dualité” - Nice, FRANCE (September - October 2023)
Generation(s), solo exhibition - Storyboard, Dublin, IRELAND (January - February 2023)
Colorama, collective exhibition - Nikon Plaza, Paris, FRANCE (January - February 2023)
Segmented self, solo exhibition - Pop-up gallery, Brussels, BELGIUM (December 2022)
Halftone Print Fair 2022, collective exhibition - The Library Project, Dublin, IRELAND (October - November 2022)
Ireland on Film, collective exhibition - The Darkroom, Dublin, IRELAND (October - November 2022)
PUBLICATIONS
Réponse photo (France). Copy 368 (April 2024)
Permanent contest laureate, image from the series HORSE FAIRGORENG. Self-published photography zine (2023)
Street photographs of Kuala Lumpur, with a tasty twist
Edition of 101 (SOLD OUT)Pamplemousse magazine (USA) - Street photography print issue (2023)
Publication of a selected image from the series GENERATION(S)The Irish Times (IRELAND), The Times (UK), The Yale Review (USA), The Straits Times (SINGAPORE) (2022)
Press publications of a portrait series of the poet Wong May
RECOGNITION
Revue EPIC, La selection du jeudi
Online publication (August 2022, June 2023)M le magazine du Monde, Le goût des followers
Online publication (2023)Wipplay x Festival Photaumnales, “Look de sport”
Online contest - 3nd place (2023)Wipplay x Festival Image Satellite, “Dualité”
Online contest - 2nd place (2023)Wipplay x Les Photographiques, “Portraits & Cie”
Online contest - Jury’s pick (2023)National gallery of Photography, Dublin, IRELAND
Work shortlisted for the exhibition Galleries Without Walls (2021)CCI Film Festival, Vincennes, FRANCE
Selection & projection of the film “Sales, libres & heureux”, an 80-minute documentary about bicyle touring (2019)
PRESS
Street me up!, Interview about my street photography work, 2024 (listen)
Blog formation photo Podacst, Interview about my street photography & wedding photography work, 2023 (listen)