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Paris Photo runs from 12 to 15 November 2026, with digital art taking centre stage in the fair’s dedicated sector. This collector’s guide highlights five artists to discover: why they matter now and how to follow their work, whether you’re attending the fair or watching from afar.
1. Alejandro Cartagena | View Artist Profile
A Dominican-born, Mexico-based photographer examining suburban expansion, labor, and migration issues in his body of work.
His practice uses photography and video to explore identity, place, and the social and environmental effects of rapid suburban growth and migration. Cartagena is best known for his acclaimed series and photobook Carpoolers (2011–12), photographed from a pedestrian overpass above Highway 85 and depicting construction workers commuting to Monterrey in the open beds of pickup trucks directly from above.
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Where to see the artist's work during Paris Photo 2026: Carmen Araujo Arte presents Alejandro Cartagena's series, New Alphabets, at booth F-11 of the Digital Sector
Follow from afar: Watch the talk about Alejandro Cartagena's latest artist book, Ground Rules
2. Alkan Avcioglu | View Artist Profile
A Turkish multidisciplinary artist and 'AI post-photography' pioneer whose background in film and media theory shapes his exploration of synthetic imagery.
Based on the outskirts of Istanbul, Avcioglu draws on his background in narratology and visual storytelling to build bodies of work that read as speculative documentary: images and video that look like photographs of real events, objects, or places but are entirely machine-generated. Series such as 'Videodrome,' 'Simulacra,' and 'Manufactured Transcendence' explore themes of surveillance, media spectacle, and the erosion of a stable, verifiable reality in an image culture increasingly shaped by algorithms. His work has been exhibited and sold in major art-world contexts including Art Basel, Paris Photo, and Christie's.
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Where to see the artist's work during Paris Photo 2026: HEFT Gallery presents Alkan Avcioglu's work at booth D-28 of the digital sector.
Follow from afar: Read these two interviews on postphotography with Alkan Avcioglu by Fellowship and Verse
3. Jacopo Di Cera | View Artist Profile
Italian photographer and digital artist working across photography and drone footage
Jacopo Di Cera was born in Milan in 1981, moved from communications into the art world in Rome, and won a National Geographic competition in 2010. His photography, including Fino alla Fine del Mare on migration and the boats of Lampedusa, has been shown at Paris Photo, PAN Napoli, Arles and during the 2017 Venice Biennale. Since 2020 he has also worked in digital art and NFTs, with works such as Infinity at Ninfa Labs and Retreat at Art Dubai 2025.
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View the artist's work during Paris Photo 2026: DANAE presents Human Traces by Jacopo di Cera at booth F-09 of the Digital Sector
Follow from afar: Get to know Jacopo di Cera in this interview with the Luxiders magazine
4. Hyegyung Kim 김혜경 | View Artist Profile
Hyegyung Kim reinterprets traditional Korean and East Asian visual motifs through digital media art.
Her work transforms symbols of auspiciousness, fortune, prosperity, and longevity into contemporary compositions using digital technology. Porcelain, antique wooden furniture, landscape painting, and temple imagery become expanded environments through projection mapping, interactive media, light, and sound. She has participated in projects including the 2017 Cheongju International Craft Biennale and the 2020 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture media art event, and received the 2016 Red Dot Design Award.
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View the artist's work during Paris Photo 2026: byGrida presents the artist in a stunning group show, Memory, Matter, Media centered around Korean digital artist at booth F-04 of the Digital Sector.
Follow from afar: Watch an interview of the artist by The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C.
5. Summer Wagner | View Artist Profile
Los-Angeles-based photographer and video storyteller making cinematic, narrative image series
Wagner stages quiet, dreamlike scenes with family, friends and herself across the American landscape, at a moment when images arrive faster than we can believe them. The works ask what it still means to make a photograph, and to stay still long enough to be truly seen. Her images use desaturated colour, strong contrast and shallow depth of field, with symbolic details throughout. She describes her work as realism with a dash of surrealism. Some projects start from a fully written story, others from casual shooting in which stories emerge, and she also builds narratives in the edit by pairing images taken at different times.
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View the artist's work during Paris Photo 2026: NGUYEN WAHED presents works by Summer Wagner from 2023 to 2025 at booth F-07 of the Digital Sector
Follow from afar: Watch this interview of the artist by PROOF and Eli Scheinman and this written interview on MCTV
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Thumbnail credits: ALEJANDRO CARTAGENA, detail of Squares 10, from the series: New Alphabets, 2026, Unique silver gelatin print collage