There is a certain logic to avoidance. Paris Photo and Photo London are enormous, and scale works against smaller galleries: you book a booth and find yourself next to two hundred competitors, which tends to flatten distinctions that took years to build.
Photography is a powerful medium for communicating ideas across borders. Some of the photographers prefer to document day-to-day lives while others create works that are the result of their intellectual experiments.
Basel, a small town in the northwest of Switzerland with less than 200,000 people, is never busier than during the week of Art Basel. This event welcomes the elite members of the art world – artists, collectors, art dealers, agents, and journalists.
