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
Festival Annecy Lac Photo, collective exhibition “le bruit du monde” - Annecy, FRANCE (March 2025)
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
Revue EPIC (France). Volume #15 (September 2024)
Publication of a selected image from the series GENERATION(S)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
Wipplay x Atelier EXB, “Périphéries”
Online contest - 3nd place (2024)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-minutes documentary about bicyle touring (2019)
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