One week isn't much to take in the whole festival programme… especially as the town is full of little exhibition spaces that are part of the Arles fringe, the Voies…
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One of the genuine highlights for many of us at the Rencontres is the Ferrade, generously offered by the Hoffmann family since many, many years. The closest thing I can…
Group photo of the curator photographers and organisers of the 2013 edition of the Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles. Some couldn't make it for the photograph, notably Hisroshi Sugimoto and…
While the festival may be organised around debates, exhibitions and awards, another strand seems to coexist with these official events. For a few years now, Arles has been taking to…
Dirk Bakker first turned up at the Rencontres d’Arles with his cardboard boxes of rare, out of print and/or art photography books over twenty years ago. At the start, in…
Our coverage of Arles this week would not be complete without mentioning the Rencontres fringe, the Voies Off. During the opening week and throughout the summer, fifty or so photographic…
Publishing house, Actes Sud, and its cultural arm the Méjan Association, are two of the major partners of the Rencontres d'Arles 2013 festival. This year has been particularly prolific (books,…
SFR has been a partner of the Rencontres d’Arles for the last nine years. When we committed to sponsoring the festival in 2005, we wanted to show our support for…
I have supported the Rencontres d’Arles for more than ten years, both out of a love of the town of Arles and the Camargue, where I grew up, and a…
Around fifteen years ago, I wanted Olympus to get involved in artistic photography in a more creative, cultural way. Our thinking originated in the simple realisation that photography doesn't exist…