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
Dublin Street Photography Festival, collective exhibition - Dublin, IRELAND (May 2025)
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, 2024, 2025)
Press publications of Irish artists portraits
RECOGNITION
Dublin Street Photography Festival, “Street Portrait” category
Finalist (2025)Wipplay x Éditions RM, “L’Attente”
Online contest - 2nd place (2025)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)
PRESS