Luisotti (here): These 2005 images were taken by the German photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg in the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station in St. Petersburg. Caught momentarily as they travel up and down the long escalator, her subjects seem almost posed, the nation’s history in a similar moment of uncertainty and transformation. Priced at $32000.

Pace (here): Richard Learoyd has been making quiet still lifes of fragile tulips for many years now, but this new image is a reminder of the consistent mastery of these photographs. Between the subtle quality of the light and the elegantly sculptural drooping of the stems, the composition feels timelessly precise. Priced at $65000. This booth also featured a very large black-and-white portrait by Learoyd, unusually printed on canvas.

Pace (here): Nina Katchadourian’s “Sorted Books” series creates clever word play out of book titles read in sequence. This 2022 work sees a dark path forward for contemporary America, stacking us on a one-way ticket to nightmare alley. Priced at $4500.

Pace (here): With the release of his new film “Nickel Boys”, RaMell Ross is likely to benefit from a wave of additional name recognition and publicity in the coming months. This photographic work comes from a much earlier series of black-and-white prints titled “Document Soup”, which mixes together a stream of resonant still lifes, portraits, and other snippets of Black life in America, from studies of light and dark to a Malcolm X baseball hat. Here a Black Santa Claus grips a snowy chimney, a cultural artifact isolated and reconsidered. Priced at $120000 for the set of 22 prints.

Pace (here): In this 2024 work, Hank Willis Thomas re-imagines August Sander’s “Young Farmers” using scraps of his retroreflective imagery. With darkened faces and crowd scenes intermingled in the roadway, Thomas transforms the classic photographic image into something more painterly and elusive. Priced at $53000.

Pace (here): Back in the late 1990s, Richard Misrach made a series of large scale sunsets and sky scenes using the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco as a central visual anchor. In his recent series “Cargo”, he returns to the San Francisco Bay, this time watching the cargo ships that go in and out of the port there. The sunsets are similarly broad and majestic, now populated by the back and forth of the global shipping industry. Priced at $70000.

Visaterna (here): This isolated natural still life (from 2011) comes from Takashi Homma’s series of radioactive mushrooms. Foraged from contaminated sites around the world (this one came from Fukushima in Japan), the mushrooms hardly reveal their deadly nature, and it is this seemingly innocuous presentation that makes the works all the more chilling and depressing. They document nature invisibly damaged by humans, harm now waiting in a seductively innocent-looking package. Priced at €3500.

Casemore (here): This recent work by Raymond Meeks extends the general concept behind his project “The Inhabitants” to locations near Los Angeles. The original project took place in northern France, where Meeks followed migrants and made closely observed studies of the marks and impressions they left behind. Back in the desert of Southern California, he similarly tracked migrants from Mexico and further south, documenting arrangements of leftover wire and plywood like this one. At once elegantly conceived and culturally humbling, this image can be read as both found abstraction and silent desperation. Priced at $7500.

Yancey Richardson (here): Zanele Muholi’s wide ranging self-portraits over the past decade or so are another undeniable icon of 21st century photography. Here she confronts the viewer with her unyielding stare, wearing an elaborate headdress of feathers. Priced at €20000.

Kuckei+Kuckei (here): Coming out of a recent touring retrospective of her work (catalog reviewed here), this booth featured a selection of multi-image works by Barbara Probst, including this disorienting diptych made in New York City. This simultaneous view does a fascinating job of collapsing space, making the woman in the coat seem near to the other woman on her phone, when in fact they are separated by part of a city block. It’s this kind of complex visualization that gives Probst’s works so much durable interest; and they too belong on the 21st century photography short list. Priced at €16700.

Toluca (here): This striped abstraction by the Argentine photographer Andrea Ostera brings together folded layers of exposed photographic paper. Collaged together into one oscillating stack, the geometries of the work are softened by the muted colors, like an Agnes Martin painting. Priced at €6500.

Tanit (here): This 2024 work by Rania Matar is part of her ongoing series “Where Do I Go?”, documenting the resilience of Lebanese women in the face of the civil war and economic crisis taking place there. This collaborative portrait captures the divided internal struggle of whether to stay or go, the young woman introspectively split by the veiled reflection of the window and the damaged screen door. Priced at €6500.

Tanit (here): This incongruous scene of drinking a Coke while watching a fiery street protest comes from Randa Mizra’s 2006 series “Parallel Universes”. Using digital manipulation, the Lebanese photographer mixes easy going leisure with the traumas of civil war, incisively satirizing with a surreal Martha Rosler-like gaze. Priced at €6500.

Suzanne Tarasieve (here): This recent work by the Japanese photographer Mari Katayama comes from her series “Study for Caryatid”, where she poses herself like the sculptural statues that hold up Greek temples. Katayama has often photographed herself with her prosthetics and other hand-sewn cloth body parts, and these new works leave those additions behind to consider her own sense of an ideal body. The images (like this one) are quietly pared down, leaving us with the essential grace of the vulnerable human form. Priced at €6000.

Nathalie Obadia (here): Taking inspiration from Marey and Muybridge, Luc Delahaye’s repeated studies of a man with a fish net in Senegal turn the checking of the net into a kind of dance. Moving up and down, extending left and right, the body moves in different ways, each frame capturing an alternate pose. Seen in aggregate, the wall-filling work is engrossing, with seemingly endless details and variations to discover. Priced at €38000.

Persons Projects (here): Taking Willem de Kooning’s “Woman” series as a guide, this 2024 work by the Finnish photographer Niko Luoma abstracts the familiar form into layered shards of overlapped and ghosted color. Using multiple exposures in alternate colors, the final work sandwiches them all into one integrated plane, creating an approximation that shifts with a similar intensity and instability to that found in the originals. Priced at €14500.

Catharine Clark (here): In her 2021-2022 “Blind Spot” series, Stephanie Syjuco erases figures from archival photographs from Filipino colonial history, offering a conceptual sense of protection and healing to those once objectified. As seen in this work, the bamboo hut seems to shift and disassemble, the Photoshop tool creating an imperfect approximation to fill the empty space where the figures once stood. This series was included in her recent retrospective monograph The Unruly Archive (reviewed here). Priced at $3500.

Raster (here): Aneta Grzeszykowska’s 2018 series “Mama” (reviewed here) captures the eerie interaction between a life-like silicone model of the Polish artist and her very real daughter. As seen in this image, the young girl dresses up the doll and plays with it, treating the stand-in with a surprising degree of tenderness and intimacy. The booth featured a smart pairing of these works with earlier photography by Zofia Rydet. Priced at €9000.

Les Douches (here): This booth featured a selection of new color images by Roger Ballen. Ballen is perhaps best known for his macabre installations in black-and-white, so the transition to color feels like a meaningful change. Here hanging skulls and hand drawn bat figures surround a leopard-like woman, creating a darkly surreal tableau. Priced at €15000.