After last year’s Argentine theme, this year the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles will feature Mexico as well as an ambitious exploration of the image and the internet. This…
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Lost since 1939, the Spanish Civil War pictures taken by Robert Capa were presented to the International Center of Photography in 2007. The mysterious “The Mexican Suitcase” and its…
New York based French photographer, Christophe Agou will be showing his photographic work Facing Silence at a projection in Méjan during the 42nd edition of the Rencontres d’Arles.…
Fruits, vegetables, animals… These funny and colorful pictures invade Arles every year for the festival des Rencontres de la Photographie. This graphic identity was a choice made by Michel Bouvet,…
Trisha Ziff is a British filmmaker who lives and works in Mexico. Curator in contemporary photography, she just finished a documentary about Capa’s Mexican Suitcase, parallel to the exhibition.…
In July 1981, screenings chief Marc Florès was hurriedly preparing the edit for Robert Mapplethorpe's audiovisual programme, for the evening show at the Théâtre Antique. At the time, the projectors…
Chris Marker is not really a photographer. His images are like a film strip cut with scissors. They recount the same story that their creator whispers in a…
Koreans is one of the doyennes of the work of Chris Marker featured this year in Arles, telling a story through images and text of a trip to North Korea…
From 2004 to 2008, and this before Passengers, Chris Marker developped for the first time his idea of photographic reportage in the Parisian underground. Quelle heure est-elle? shows women in…
From 2008 to 2010, Chris Marker, 90 years old, invaded the Parisian metro and photographed it’s occupants on the fly. His photographs are a way of making a portrait…