For the short time he stayed at Arles, Jean-Marie Périer kept a diary, with the photos introduced as follows: "Arles is the place where I was accepted into this profession…
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The 44th Rencontres began with a Monday evening screening at the Théâtre Antique of a short from Patrick Zachmann on Sergio Larrain. Filmed in Chile in 1999, the film, although…
The Rencontres d’Arles ended on a misunderstanding. A picture of Viviane Sassen. Vertical image. Two bodies are hiding themselves between the leaves of a three. A bag is standing on…
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…
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…
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,…