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 FAIR

  • GORENG. 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)