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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.
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Isabel Muñoz is an internationally renowned Spanish photographer who stands out for her use of platinum prints and very large formats that sublimate her anthropological study of the human being. Since her first series, Tango en Flamenco (1989), she has never stopped exploring the beauty of the human body through different cultures, different rituals. Dance, body transformations, the human-animal relationship are at the center of her research. Isabel Munoz seeks…
Ward 81, photographed in 1976, was Mary Ellen Mark's first independent long-term project. Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs set out to document the lives of the women in this locked ward at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem—the only one in the state. Every day for five weeks, Mark photographed and Jacobs interviewed the women on Ward 81. At night they slept in an empty adjacent ward. Ward 81:…
Musée Albert-Kahn
2 Rue du Port, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
from June 1st, 2024 to September 22nd, 2024
The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Awards
Dubaï, UAE
from May 14th, 2024 to June 30th, 2024
Herez Corpo
Paris, France
from May 16th, 2024 to July 9th, 2024
Initial Labo
62 Av. Jean Baptiste Clement, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
from May 27th, 2024 to October 1st, 2024
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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…
Rio Grande do Sul, one of the 26 states of Brazil, is a region rich in culture and diverse geography. Its location on the southern border of the country, bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, provides a unique connection with Uruguay and Argentina. Porto Alegre, its capital, is the pulsating heart of the region, where urban life intertwines with historical narratives. The influence of European immigration is evident in Gaúcho culture,…
Awakening In the darkness I am. You are. We are not. The rain brought us a letter. Entangled in bloom. We are. Lily Toushek is a photojournalist currently working and living in Bulgaria and the Aegean region. However, the story “The Letter” has been created differently. Instead of documenting social and political issues, this experiment in photography and poetry invites a shared experience of spring as a symbol of love…
From above They are images taken in the historic center of my city, Cosenza. I chose the shot from below to enhance the grandeur and grandeur of the historic buildings. The images are accompanied by verses written by Astolfo Lupia. From above That cerulean sky that cheers the heart, It is not sky, nor is it blue; What a terrible pain at the revelation that beauty not always is truthful.…
When living makes you suffer This project talks about all women and about the feelings inside them, when loving makes suffer. Anger, desperation,isolation,loneliness, depression, fragility but also THE LOST INNOCENCE and THE LOST TRUST when woman feels pain inside the relationship. ( That's why at the centre of the project - pics number 8 - there is a different colored and moody picture. Pic number 8 talks about the lost…
Elsewhere Elsewhere takes an introspective dive into my own immigrating journey to Finland, and the feelings of isolation consequently involved, using the landscape as a tool for emotional catharsis. I present a space for contemplation, interwinding elements of poetic narration, infrared photography and references to pictorialism.
Fork Instinct is that reaction rooted in the human body, the reaction that makes the body know before thought. Accompanied by his cameras, Tanguy moves through the many landscapes, with this instinct as a compass that pushes him to release the shutter when a moment of life passes. Travelling along the coast of Senegal, from Saint-Louis to Casamance, via the frenetic city of Dakar, "Fork*" recounts these fragments of life,…
Photographer Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938 in New York) returns to Malaga after sixty years, with a major exhibition of old and unpublished works at the Museo Picasso Málaga. The exhibition will bring together for the first time more than one hundred and fifty photographs taken by Meyerowitz during his introductory road trip to Europe from 1966 to 1967, many of which have never been shown before. "I know that my…
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