In addition to showcasing the finest in photography from leading international galleries and over 150 exceptional artists, this year’s edition of photo basel presents an enriched and dynamic program dedicated entirely to the world of fine art photography. The 2025 lineup features a compelling mix of curated exhibitions, artist talks, panel discussions, and special projects that explore both classic and contemporary photographic practices. With a focus on innovation, critical dialogue, and cross-cultural exchange, photo basel continues to be a vital platform for collectors, curators, and photography enthusiasts alike.
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Denis Dailleux Le garçon au bateau sur la tête à Mumford, Ghana, 2016 Lambda Print 120 x 120 cm Edition of 6
Galerie—Peter—Sillem presents a solo show by two-time World Press Photo Award winner Denis Dailleux with photographs from Ghana.
"I first discovered Ghana when I came across the beautiful book Paul Strand dedicated to this country. It made such an incredible impression on me that on that day, I promised myself that I would one day go and photograph Ghana."
Denis Dailleux was born in 1958 in Angers, France. He has published several books on Egypt (especially Cairo), his impressions of the "Arab Spring," and Ghana. Dailleux has received numerous international awards, including the Monographies Award in 1997, the World Press Photo Award in the Portrait category in 2000, the Hasselblad Award in 2000, the Fujifilm Award in 2001, and the World Press Photo Award in 2014 in the Staged Portraits category (2nd place), and the Prix Roger Pic in 2019. He is a member of the Agence VU and currently lives in Paris.
His work is part of numerous institutional and private collections, including the Agnès B. private collection, the Fond National d'Art Contemporain, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and the Neuflize Vie collection.
Arnold Odermatt would have been 100 years old this year. To mark the occasion, Galerie Springer is presenting selected color works, including some absolute rarities, by the famous Swiss photographer. The presentation will be supplemented with works by Japanese artist Natsoume and the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky.
The award-winning German photographer Michael Wolf (*1954–†2019) documented urban life in the world’s largest cities such as Hong Kong, Chicago, Tokyo, and Paris using large-format topographical series, which can be read as a metaphor for the question of our lives in densely populated metropolises. Michael Wolf’s "MFT (My Favorite Things)" series showcases a variety of creative and informal solutions that Hong Kong residents have developed to cope with the density of their urban life. From improvised seating to drying gloves, coat hangers, plastic bags, and even lost laundry, each image reveals the ingenuity of the people living in the megacity’s often overlooked "back alleys." Wolf was deeply impressed by people’s ability to find use and purpose in these seemingly functionally empty spaces and to creatively utilize them.
Bara Prasilova Water and Love, 2017 From the series "Circles"
Thomas Gust Costumes, Tokyo, 2025, #2
Bára Prášilová (*1979) creates surreal worlds in her photographs, balancing on the border between beauty and strangeness, between realism and fictional scenarios, achieving a heightened degree of authenticity through her precise execution. In the resulting worlds, she explores strong female images and questions social role distributions, with the poetic staging also referencing the tradition of Eastern European modernism and transforming it into a contemporary approach.
Thomas Gust (*1972) explores themes such as memory, history, and urban life through a distinctive blend of photography and painting. This process transforms his images while simultaneously preserving their photographic essence and expanding the boundaries of the medium. During his stay in Japan in 2025, the idea for a series was born that juxtaposes iconic Japanese pictorial elements, such as the cherry blossom, with portraits of the late 19th century and alters the prints through manual intervention using painting techniques. In the series Costumes, staged studio portraits of geisha models are reworked using painting, thus transferring them into the present and a new artistic context.
Boris Gaberščik Personal Collection, Collar for Dr Moebius, 2022 silver gelatine print on baryta paper, selenium toned 25.4 x 20.3 cm edition 3 + 1 AP
Olena Zubach Untitled #8, 2023 archival pigment print on paper 30 x 30 cm edition of 7
Tilyen Mucik Cornflower on Philodendron, 2024 chlorophyll process, plant leaf in resin 15 x 15 cm unique piece
Galerija Fotografija will present works by slovenian and international artists.
Boris Gaberščik, a recipient of the Prešeren Fund Prize, is still active, creating timeless yet consistently avant-garde still lifes in which he combines everyday objects into thoughtful black-and-white compositions. His work has made a significant impact on the art scene in Slovenia and beyond.
Tilyen Mucik is a slovenian artist of the younger generation, whose work has focused on botanical photography. In her photographic series, she presents astonishing enlargements of plant seeds, bringing them to the fore not only symbolically, but also literally.
Sara Rman’s work is based on a variety of photographic media and chemicals, experimenting with the physical dimensions of the medium itself and reaching beyond its boundaries into the field of sculpture.
Olena Zubach uses the technique of photo-collaging to create supernatural still lifes and to place everyday objects in striking tonal compositions.
Sergio Scabar is an italian artist who has devoted his life to experimenting with the alchemist process of creating analogue photographs, which depict everyday compositions in an eternal range of grey hues. The photographs featured thus represent contemporary photographic production, ranging from timeless still lifes to botanical photography.
Daniel & Geo Fuchs nature & destruction, Hermann, 2017 80 x 139 cm
Dale Grant Gerbera Under Glas, 2017 120 × 120 cm
Dale Grant has embarked on a unique artistic journey to capture the beauty in decay. For him, flowers represent a profound allegory of life. The artist sees flowers not only as colourful creatures, but also as a symbol of the cycle of life – from youth to wilting, from radiance to transience. In his ongoing series "FADING BEAUTY", Dale Grant reveals the true and unique beauty of flowers as they begin to wither. The petals unfold completely and their vibrant colours become more muted until they finally become transparent and fragile. The incoming light penetrates the petals, giving the photographs a mesmerising texture and form. Dale Grant’s approach to flower portraits is similar to his approach to human portraits. He studies his models carefully before photographing them and sees the cycle of life as a fascinating motif. For him, ageing is not a tragedy, but a transformation in which new levels of expression and depth become visible. In his work, the flower becomes a mirror of human existence - vulnerable, transient and yet full of grace.
In striking contrast to this is the work Accident 1-6 by Deni Horvatić, part of his "SCAN" series. In his life-size photographs of everyday scenes, the artist minimises the distance between the surroundings and the people depicted by choosing a particular angle of view 'from below'. The photograph shows a seemingly banal everyday scene: a lawnmower cutting green grass, accompanied by two feet. Only a second glance reveals something irritating - a hand, a red crown cap. What is really happening here? Is it a moment of horror? An accident? Or a deliberate warning? Deni Horvatić reduces the distance between the viewer and the subject without revealing too much. His works are riddles with psychological depth. The camera becomes a tool of staging, the gaze is guided - and scrutinised.
This dialog is extended by the works of Daniel & Geo Fuchs from their series "nature & destruction", in which they explore the contrasts between aesthetics and destruction in nature. In today's world, where resources are becoming increasingly scarce and the world is inexorably affected by climate change, they deal with the fragility of nature. Nature, as seen by Daniel & Geo Fuchs, is on the one hand the supposedly perfect reproduction of what man interprets into it and hopes for: nature as beauty and as the giver of all resources and forces. On the other hand, however, one is confronted with its destruction through human intervention. Rugged and steep cliffs, snow-capped mountains and plantless hills rise unreachable and seemingly untouched into the sky. However, the colours laid over the works by the artists and small signs of human intervention give the viewer pause and shake the supposedly ideal world. The images are mainly created with a camera robot developed by Nasa and Google for the Mars mission, in which hundreds of images are stitched together into one; this results in an incredible richness of detail that intensifies the viewer's gaze.
Tuomo Manninen Young Dandies, Mofolo Park, Soweto 2011, 2011
"THE BEGINNING OF HOPE"
The presentation at photo basel is about a deep desire for hope, hence the title, "THE BEGINNING OF HOPE", suggested by Marios Fournaris. Whether for a better future (Mario Rizzi), for the preservation of our natural environment (Mimiko Türkkan), the role of women in peace (Maryam Ashrafi) or for peace, be it fragile (Tuomo Manninen). However the real exists, and we should not look away from it: Guillaume Chamahian shows the world as it is, often dreadful, but with such a refined photographic technique that looking at his works favors alternative thoughts. Let’s change this world!
The land of red earth is the home of Zak van Biljon. Born in South Africa in 1981, the photographer spent his childhood and youth between Johannesburg and Cape Town. In 2003, he graduated top of his class from the National College of Photography in Pretoria. Ironically, he graduated with a degree in black and white prints - when he was influenced by the colors of the Rainbow Nation. In 2004, he moved to Europe. His main focus is on the staged use of light. In his latest art project he deals with infrared photography. The world seen in shades of red and pink offers a new and impressive insight into reality as we know it.
Sandro Livio Straube, born 1992 in Zurich, is an architect and photographer. Over a period of more than four years he photographed in the Val Lumnezia for the series "Mountains bleach". The limitation to an analog medium format camera and a fixed focal length, as well as the strict geographical perimeter, led to a sought-after narrowness and thus to a more intense perception. The photographs show what would otherwise soon disappear. As a silent observer, he dares to look reality in the eye for a fraction of a second- the moment of taking the picture.
Anna Lehmann-Brauns works with the medium of photography and addresses her own memories and issues relevant to her generation in her stage-like photographic compositions. On display are color photographs from various series, including her latest photographs, which were taken in Istanbul in 2020 during a cultural exchange scholarship. Anna Lehmann-Brauns deals with the topos of space as a place of subjective and collective memory. Her focus is not on documenting places or scenes, but on capturing moods and descriptions of states of being. Although people are almost always invisible in her large-format and fragmentary photographs, the images speak in imaginary traces of nothing more than their existence.
Imaginario represents more than 30 Argentine and Latin American artists from the fields of the protograpy, the sculpture and the visual arts.
Diego Moreno is a visual artist and writer born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1975. He is a historian from the National University of Colombia and Magister in philosophy and History candidate, with a specialization in visual arts and aesthetic arts from the same University. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and France. His current minimalist work "South America: Vestiges of a Living World" is being displayed in galleries and international meetings of photography and contemporary art.
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