Like every year, Little Big Galerie offers a collective exhibition of the photographers it represents and its favorites pictures. This year: they are: Maxime Antony, Laurence Biaggi, Thibaut Derien, Doytcheva, Marion Dubier-Clark, Isabelle Levsitre, Fabienne Percheron, Christian Poncet and Maxime Simon. We have chosen to present Maxime Antony's portfolio to you accompanied by his text: Vast expanses of seabed are revealed by the retreat of the waters, while, conversely, powerful…
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In parallel with the Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles and in the continuity of its artistic direction, Écho 119 highlights Japanese women through the work of several Japanese photographers and a French woman, this summer at Galerie Huit Arles. The exhibition will be on view on the walls of gallery eight from July 1st to July 31st. Throughout the month of July, the beautiful Galerie Huit mansion will serve as…
Franco-Moroccan artist, Sara Ouhaddou is the second guest of the Fondation Thalie summer program in Arles; the artist presents for the first time a set of photographs which reveal the daily life of the artisans with whom she has collaborated for around ten years, the fruit of different projects carried out in Morocco, Tunisia and Japan. The starting point of this ensemble is the relationship that the artist maintains with…
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Swedish rug publisher and experimental designer Henzel Studio celebrates years of collaborations with women contemporary artists and photographers with the exhibition Erode – Morph – Bloom, currently on view at Twentieth Gallery’s new Hollywood Hills location. Erode – Morph – Bloom features artworks and limited-edition design collaborations by seminal contemporary artists Vanessa Beecroft, Nan Goldin, Kim Gordon, Katerina Jebb, Mary McCartney, and Marilyn Minter. The exhibition, curated by Joakim Andreasson,…
Shawn Pyfrom : Know How To Seize Opportunities. If he started his career at a very young age, Shawn Pyfrom became most famous for playing the role of Andrew Van de Kamp in the TV series Desperate Housewives. But the actor is also a multi-disciplinary artist. Alternately filmmaker, producer, photographer, fashion designer or painter, he gives free rein to his inspiration and his desires. Thus, in 2017, he decided to…
An icon of gay art and one of the most famous names in physique photography, Bruce Bellas is remembered today as a pioneer of beefcake. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing until his death in 1974, Bellas photographed some of the most important figures in the world of physical culture; bodybuilders Steve Reeves, Bob McCune, and George Eiferman, and models Joe Dallesandro, Mark Nixon, and Brian Idol are just a few of…
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The Galerie Ira Leonis Arles, faithful to Françoise Huguier who has exhibited there for several years, offers for the 2024 Rencontres de la Photographie a set of exceptional images resulting from the complicity of the artist with the fashion designer Christian Lacroix, from the beginning of his Haute Couture House in the 80s/90s. More than 30 unique vintage photographs are on display, black and white and color. A sublime and…
At the Association du Méjan, echoing the tremors of a fragmented world, Stéphane Duroy’s photographs seize the viewer’s imagination with a haunting sense of absence. For over forty years, he has criss-crossed Europe and the United States in the wake of the cataclysms which shaped the 20th century. Building on his experience as a photographer for the Sipa press agency, Stéphane Duroy went on to tirelessly amass a body of…
Like every year, Efet students organize themselves to be in Arles, during the professional Rencontres week. But it doesn't stop there, some students exhibit and present their personal know-how during this great gathering of Photography. For this year 2024, I have selected some works which reflect the abilities and skills acquired in this establishment for learning and which present some touches of originality. In the few dozen images analyzed, I…
In February 1968, the Musée Cantini held its first photography exhibition, L'ŒIL OBJECTIF [Objective Eye], featuring Robert Doisneau, Denis Brihat, Lucien Clergue and Jean-Pierre Sudre. Around the same time, one of the pioneers of the Rencontres d'Arles, Jean-Claude Gautrand, was awarded the Grand Prix de la Ville de Marseille for photography. Together with the Bibliothèque nationale and the Musée Réattu, the Musée Cantini thus took on a pioneering role, building up a…
The 13th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is dedicated to Ghana and the ecological and human challenges associated with the transboundary flow of electronic waste. The award was granted to a team made up of investigative anti-corruption journalist and activist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and photojournalists Muntaka Chasant and Bénédicte Kurzen (NOOR). From February 2023 to February 2024, thanks to the human and financial support of the Fondation Carmignac, the…
The Galerie Actes Sud presents the group exhibition Photographies au Saut du Lit "Photographies just waking up". Many photographers have taken up the motif of the bed. Both intimate and universal, it allows us to reveal the home secrets, to tell the story of desire, dreams, mourning or violence, to bear witness to the opulence of some and the deprivation of others. This seemingly innocuous piece of furniture accommodates all…
At the invitation of the Rencontres d’Arles, France PhotoBook is organizing the third edition of Arles Books Fair, at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie and the Collège Saint-Charles. Dedicated to the richness and variety of publishing practices, this event will be punctuated by a program of meetings with photographers and authors. Arles Books Fair will bring together over seventy international publishing houses. ► More information on the program coming soon on rencontre-arles.com and francephotobook.fr.
The Rencontres d’Arles will open in 8 days: it is one of the most important photographic festival in the world. The program is promising and brings together all branches of photography. It is interesting to see what will come out of it at a time when photography enters the unknown. Photography magazines are moribund, including the major fashion or news titles which lose a reader with every single death from…
The Centre de la photographie de Mougins presents the exhibition Stephen Shames : Comrade Sisters / les Panthères noires. François Cheval, the curator, presents it as follows: Stephen Shames was 20 years old when, while studying at Berkeley, he came into contact with the premises of what would become the Black Panther Party. From then on, he accompanied the emancipation movement of the black American until its dissolution. Benefiting from…
Paradis naturistes is the exhibition presented by the Mucem as part of Grand Arles. Pierre-Olivier Costa, President of Mucem, describes it as follows: It’s an old story, it’s even the original story. In the idea we have of it, paradise, as we have been taught, in everything we have seen or read, is necessarily a natural, green space, a sort of jungle without hostility that the we cross naked. In…
The Orient Express Endowment Fund presents Wagon-bar. A little history of the railway food. After the success of the Orient-Express et cie exhibition presented in 2021 in Arles and in 2023 at the Villa Médicis, the Orient Express Endowment Fund and Les Rencontres d'Arles are renewing their collaboration and co-producing this year the exhibition Wagon-bar. Une petite histoire du repas ferroviaire at the Espace Croisière as part of the festival.…
As part of the Rencontres d’Arles and the Grand Arles Express, the centre photographique de Marseille with the support of the Polish Institute of Paris and the Museum of Bydgoszcz presents Grzegorz Przyborek exhibition. Grzegorz Przyborek is one of the major figures of contemporary Polish photography. For more than 40 years, he has been building a unique work, entirely made in his studio located on the 11th floor of a building…
Our collaborator Thierry Maindrault with the Optim'Art collective is the curator of the exhibition dedicated to Etienne Renzo. He writes : It is in the gallery of the Atrium hotel [Arles] that a careful selection of images is exhibited throughout the duration of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie. The choices were made around the photographic purpose and its ability to bring an era to life, beyond simple informative testimony.…
From July 1 to September 29, 2024, Astrid Ullens de Schooten Whettnall and her Foundation A are invited to the Rencontres d'Arles as part of Relectures, revisiter la photographie. Curated by Urs Stahel, the exhibition When Images Learn to Speak presents some 650 prints and 45 photographers, collected over the last 30 years, many of whom have now become thought leaders of documentary photography. Robert Adams (1937), Manuel Álvarez Bravo…
ROOM 5 ROOM 5 is an object book, a tribute to the hotel Les Cabanettes and the work of architect Armand Pellier, created by photographer Emmanuelle Firman, and illuminated by the texts of architect Anne- Marie Llanta, who retraces the hotel's genesis. When Emmanuelle Firman discovered the site, she was seized by an urgency to capture it, to transform the invisible into the visible. Guided by the light and soul…