PhotographyFestivals

In 2009-10, I presented a George Rodger exhibition in London. I wanted to make it something truly special and different from the other exhibitions […]…

I had sent to the Rencontres d'Arles a slideshow of my pictures created by the Pompidou Centre, and which had already been screened there. I had recently become editor-in-chief of…

He was one of the most vehement ludions of this young French photography which was created in the middle of the Seventies, an amazing […]…

For 35 years Robert Pujade will lead conferences and debates at festivals.He focuses here on the birth of French photographic criticism through Michel Nuridsany, […]…

My first memories of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles date back to 1976, for the 7th edition. I was 13 and already working in the administrative offices…

The idea here is that I was in Arles in 1975. I had just read that Van Gogh went crazy in the noon-day sun of Arles. So I decided to…

Do you know Arles? And the Mistral? Not Frédéric Mistral, who stands waiting for the train in Place du Forum, but the northerly wind. Mistral + photofolio review + Cour…

In 1972, I sent a copy of my first book "The Dream Collector" to Michel Tournier, after reading his novel "The ogre", about a french prisoner of war who collect…

He was not very handsome, he was poor, he was thin. His name was Lucien Clergue. I was beautiful, courted and a stewardess. There […]…