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Katia Kameli Born 1973 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Lives and works in Paris, France. Katia Kameli is a Franco-Algerian filmmaker and visual artist. Raised between distinct social and cultural spheres, she challenges dominant narratives and explores the overlooked aspects of history. She describes herself as a translator, viewing translation not as a simple act of transmission between two cultures but as an extension of meaning and form. For the past twenty…
Meghann Riepenhoff Born 1979 in Atlanta, USA. Lives and works in Bainbridge Island, USA. Meghann Riepenhoff received a BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including SFMOMA, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, C/O Berlin, Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, Centre…
Marie-Claude Deffarge Born 1924 in Paris, France. Died 1984 near Paris, France. Marie-Claude Deffarge was a French photographer, journalist, and filmmaker. During the German occupation, she studied ethnology and archaeology at the Sorbonne in Paris. Through her involvement with flamenco, she came into contact with left-wing resistance groups against the Nazi regime. From the early 1950s onward, she worked in close collaboration with Gordian Troeller. In 1959, she joined the…
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Interior Trip “David Pujadó likes to move with simplicity and minimalism. His photographs cultivate silence around the image, a task that might appear easy at first glance when in fact it is quite difficult to accomplish. Pujadó knows how to unlock the souls he is looking at. His camera manages to gain access and to penetrate interior territories that are normally inaccessible to most of us. The grey tones or…
Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence
Great-Britain
from July 1st, 2026 to October 1st, 2026
IRIS Arles
12 rue Diderot, 13200 Arles, France
from July 4th, 2026 to August 16th, 2026
Artchives
Paris, France
from June 30th, 2026 to August 15th, 2026
Format Festival
Derby, Great-Britain
from June 24th, 2026 to September 7th, 2026
Alo Galerie
12 Rue Richard Lenoir, 75011 Paris, France
from July 7th, 2026 to July 14th, 2026
Triennale of Photography Hamburg
Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg, Allemagne
from June 5th, 2026 to September 22nd, 2026
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Archives - July 10, 2015 Walker Evans (1903-1975) remains one of the most important and influential photographers in the history of photography. His career spanned the emergence of the modern mass media in the 1920s to the full acceptance of photography as an art form in the 1960s and 70s. Many of Evans’s individual images have become landmarks in both the history of photography and the social history of that…
Archives - July 10, 2019 In parallel to her book, Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie 50 ans d’histoire published by de La Martiniere, Francoise Denoyelle publishes a second one: Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie Une Histoire française, published by Art Book Magazine-Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie. This one is more thematic and historical. She presents it as follows: The Rencontres d'Arles 50 years of photography 50 years of…
Presented as part of Fujikina, the exhibition bringing together Yohanne Lamoulère and Alain Willaume features two projects born from artist residencies in Atlanta and Kyoto. Through two distinctly different photographic approaches, the members of the Tendance Floue collective explore a shared challenge: discovering a place through photography. Running alongside the Rencontres d'Arles for its third edition, Fujikina once again takes over the former ENSP building with a programme of…
New York Life Gallery presents Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002), curated by Johann Mergenthaler in collaboration with the Estate of Manuel Álvarez Bravo and the Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo. This marks the first presentation of this group of photographs in the Americas, following its initial exhibition at Galerie Carole Lambert, Paris (November 11–December 18, 2025). Expanding on the earlier presentation in Paris, the exhibition includes several works that have never before…
Back in Arles for the sixth consecutive year, Sigma has chosen to spotlight in 2026 a documentary and intimate body of work by photographer Thomas Savary. Every year in May, the small town of Allanche, in the Cantal (in the center of France), comes alive to the rhythm of hooves and bells. Nearly 40,000 people gather there to celebrate a centuries-old practice: the transhumance of Salers cattle herds to the…
Kestle Barton hosts the launch of Ray’s Sheds, a new publication by photographer Jem Southam, on Saturday 11 July. The afternoon will include drinks in the garden and a talk in the studio. Sarah Gillespie’s exhibition Birded and Eyed will also be on show in the gallery. Ray’s Sheds brings together photographs, texts and design by Jem Southam in a new 120-page publication printed by Narayana Press in Denmark. The…
Paul Kodjo Born 1939 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Died 2021 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Paul Kodjo is a key figure in the visual history of post-independence Ivory Coast. His career began in Abidjan in the early 1960s, before he moved to Paris in 1967 to study photography. After completing his training, he worked as a photojournalist and opened his first photo studio in the city. In 1970, upon returning to…
This evening, July 9, from 9:45 p.m. to midnight, the traditional Night at the Théâtre Antique will take place. On the program: PRIX PICTET ALFREDO JAAR Chilean artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar, whose politically engaged work explores images, memory and the urgencies of the contemporary world, will be honored at the Théâtre Antique as the recipient of the eleventh Prix Pictet for The End, his series devoted to Utah’s…
The starting point of the exhibition, the poster for the famous series The X-Files, conceals a whole other story, that of a photograph taken in 1975 by the Swiss Eduard Albert “Billy” Meier. Renowned for his numerous books, he claimed, with supporting images, to show evidence of contact with inhabitants of other planets. More than just a poster, Meier’s photograph belongs to a little‑known category of such, taken during UFO…
Archives - July 9, 2020 Paris, again and again, for this lover of the capital, Paris that he has photographed so much ... But Paris-Matic ... photographed with the Agfamatic, this disposable device, almost a toy, that a photographer might not take seriously … Bernard Plossu plays with the possibilities of the device, very different from those of his professional Nikkormat, and offers us here a new "instant" look at…
Archives - July 9, 2025 In his extensive book, Desert, the renowned photojournalist delves into his love and knowledge of this arid territory that has guided his entire life. His words, along with those of 2024 Prix Goncourt winner Kamel Daoud, accompany a collection of previously unseen photographs reminiscent of another era. Raymond Depardon says it himself: along with the peasants in France, it's a favorite subject in his career…
With its unparalleled reach, the Sony World Photography Awards elevate the careers of photographers to the next level. Since the beginning, the Awards have championed inclusivity and access by being free to enter. Acting as an insight into photography today in all its diversity, the Awards spotlights photographers telling the stories of our time. What inspires you to pull out a camera? Whether it's the ordinary moments on the street…
The Fifth Edition of the Monochromatic Awards Is Now Open To take part in the fifth edition of the Monochromatic Awards, dedicated to the best monochromatic photography of 2026, click here. This competition is open to all interpretations of monochromatic photography: from traditional black and white to grayscale, sepia, cyanotype, or any other variation based on a single tone. What matters is how you use that limitation to build an…
The Marrakech Photography Festival announces the winners of its Open Call. The Marrakech Photography Festival announces the twenty photographers and visual artists selected following its Open Call for the 6th edition of the festival, which will take place from 7 to 10 October 2026 in Marrakech. Hundreds of applications from every continent were submitted, reflecting the vitality of contemporary photography and the growing appeal of our festival as a venue…
The Eyes Lab announces the three winners of the fourth edition of the Eyes Wide Open First Photo Book Grants. JULIETTE DUPUIS CARLE – SAIF Grant for a French photographer or a photographer resident in France CLOÉ HARENT – Grant for a female photographer of any nationality CLÉA REKHOU – Grant for a photographer from a country in the ‘Global South’ Each grant, worth €5,000, is awarded directly to the…
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