GrandArlesExpress*, a 47th edition international and local

40 exhibitions in sync with the evolutions of the medium with our following selection

-street photography with Sid Grossman, Garry Winogrand et Ethan Levitas, Peter Mitchell, Eamon Doyle ou Chritian Marclay
-New documentary’s approaches with  Laia Abril, Piero Martinello, Joao Pina
-Africa Pop : The influences of the Nollywood’s cinema studios on the African photographic production, the wonderful story of Malian’s Maravillas and the photomontages of Maud Sulter
-Monsters & Co :
Charles Fréger, Yokainshima with a divergent look on the monters in movies.
-Singular ! Stranges Collections :
Bad Kind : collection Sébastien Lifshitz
Lady Liberty : The factory photoschedules of an icon
Hara Kiri Photo : The tribute of Les Rencontres to Charlie Hebdo
– the photography seen otherwise:
Perfect imperfections or the art to embrace the fate and the errors
There is of the other one: the awakenings of the image (the vernacular by Agnès Geoffroy and Julie Jones)
Alinka Echeverria Nicephora (residence BMW Nicephore Niepce)
-Hors Cadre
Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari, Toilet Paper (festival poster !)
Augustin Rebetez : Cardboard muséum (a partnership with Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne)

And still available : The discover Prize, Arles Books, Night of the year, Olympus conversation…

News for 2016:

apart 5 news places, a strong local anchoring with footbridges with the Grand Sud (Stop at collection Lambert in Avignon, at the Carré d’art in  Nîmes, and at the villa Méditerranée in Marseille) ;
An invitation to the artist Stéphanie Solinas to revisit the stor of the oldfactory Lsutucru ( the 1st edition residence of creation.
The story of the Camargue Western by Joë Hamman who joins Bernard Plossu’s images ” Western Cothen “.

An arsenal of support to creation and discovery of young talents strengthened with the 1st residence of creation introduced by the festival and the graduate school of photography, Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award for its 2nd edition or Photo Folio Review.