Daft Punk “Around the World” Exhibition in Paris: 60 Photos From Before and After the Helmets

Around the World, a Daft Punk photo exhibition in Paris from 20 to 22 November 2026: around 60 photos by nine photographers, from unmasked 1990s portraits to the robot years.

Written By Techno Airlines

Published November 10, 2026

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Paris gets a Daft Punk photo exhibition this month, and it starts where the helmets do not exist yet. “Around the World” brings together around 60 photographs by nine photographers at 114 rue de Turenne in the Marais from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 November 2026. The walls run from portraits taken between 1995 and 1997, showing Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo with their faces uncovered, to the robot years that made Daft Punk the most recognisable masked act in music. Entry is by reservation only.

Around the World at a glance

Dates	Friday 20 to Sunday 22 November 2026
Opening hours	10:00 to 19:00 each day (Eventbrite listing)
Address	114 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris (Le Marais)
Space	About 500 square metres, according to the City of Paris listing
What is shown	Around 60 photographs by nine photographers, some never exhibited before
Tickets	Reservation only, via the organiser’s Eventbrite page
Organiser	Landry Gallery

What is on the walls

The show is built as two stories that meet in the middle: the two young Parisians before the transformation, and the robots that replaced them. These are the photographers named so far.

Philippe Levy, portraits from 1995 to 1997 without helmets, taken when Homework was still being finished and the French Touch scene was just forming. This is the part most fans searching for Daft Punk’s real faces will come for.
Luis Sanchis, a 2001 shoot for the British magazine The Face that puts the two robots into everyday and slightly surreal situations, from domestic scenes upwards.
Seb Janiak, who imagined the duo as extraterrestrial visitors exploring Earth around the same period.
Tetsuro Sato, who followed them through the streets and subway of Tokyo; one of the exhibition images is titled “The Robots Exiting The Metro”.
Kuge Yasuhide, who photographed them for a Japanese magazine in the same era.

Most of these pictures were shot on film for print magazines in the 1990s and 2000s and have barely circulated since. As Domus put it in its preview, once the faces are hidden, posture, clothes and the way the two occupy a room become the portrait.

From faces to helmets: the timeline

Who is behind it

The exhibition was put together by five friends, Lenny Houari, Guillaume Vidal, Stéphane Kazazian, Benjamin Felix and Landry Thomas, who grew up on Daft Punk but were too young to see the early shows. After staging an exhibition of Stéphane Meunier’s photographs of the French national team at the 1998 World Cup in 2024, they started tracking down the photographers who had shot the duo for international magazines. Domus says the project was “born out of a sense of regret”: this is their way of seeing a period they missed.

A busy autumn for a band that no longer exists

Daft Punk split in February 2021 with the Epilogue video, yet 2026 has kept them in the news. A LEGO set based on the Alive 2007 pyramid is on the way. In October, Leeds DJ Ralph Lawson shared a 1997 guest mix the duo had sent to his Kiss FM show, restored from a mouldy cassette he found in storage. Also in October, the rumour account Has It Leaked claimed Rockstar had offered the duo a reunion for Grand Theft Auto VI before hiring Justice; it remains unconfirmed, and Bangalter has said publicly that there will be no comeback show. Speaking of GTA, the game’s own Vice City is spilling into Miami clubs the same weekend as this exhibition: see our story on Club Space becoming The Vault.

The TA view

Three days in a Marais space is a small window, and reservation-only entry means it will not be a walk-in. But for a duo whose image was so tightly controlled, an exhibition that puts the before and after side by side is rare. If you are in Paris that weekend, book early; if not, our guides to the top 10 Daft Punk songs and how the split happened fill in the music. For other nights in the city, see our Paris events listings.