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Yan Carpenter
Exhibition from November 3 to November 30, 2025
Winner of the 2024 SAM Residency, this exhibition marks Yan Carpenter’s first solo show in France.
Born in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, Yan Carpenter lives and works in Guadalupe, in the northern zone of the city. A self-taught photographer, DJ, history teacher, and former drummer, he has developed a photographic practice rooted in his everyday life, at the heart of the favelas where he grew up. Through his gaze, he captures fragments of life—gestures, faces, suspended moments—that convey the vitality and complexity of a territory often misrepresented.
With this exhibition at the Sorbonne, Photo Days continues its commitment to supporting the international emerging scene, offering young artists a space for visibility and dialogue. In this place of knowledge and exchange, Yan Carpenter’s images meet a curious and evolving audience, extending the human and social reach of his work.
Photo Days
Founded in 2020, Photo Days aims to bring together all venues and events related to photography and video in Paris each November. It brings together institutions, galleries, fairs, an auction house, and a selection of carefully chosen private spaces—such as artists’ studios, laboratories, or collectors’ apartments—to offer visitors, both professionals and amateurs, a fully immersive photographic experience at a time when Paris becomes the world capital of photography.
SAM Art Projects
Since its creation in 2009, SAM Art Projects has structured its philanthropic program around three main pillars supporting artistic creation: the SAM Prize (€20,000, awarded annually to an artist from the French scene presenting a project destined for a foreign country), SAM Residencies (which have enabled more than 20 artists from 19 countries to be hosted and exhibited in France), and carte blanche projects.
By relaunching the residency program in 2023—suspended in 2020 due to the global health context—Sandra Hegedüs, Founder of SAM Art Projects, has strengthened her committed support for the production and dissemination of contemporary art, encouraging artistic exchanges between North and South, and between East and West.
