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A photojournalism career spanning twenty-five years bears witness to Lebanese photographer Samer Mohdad determination to show the profound changes that have taken place in the Arab world. The exhibition 'Visions…
Winner of the third Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award in 2011, Robin Hammond has now chosen to illustrate the humanitarian crisis touching Zimbabwe, today plunged deep in chaos and poverty. He…
Traditionally the HSBC Photography Foundation unveils the monographs of its two award winners for the year at Arles. The exhibitions of these monographs take place throughout the summer at the…
In front of the Chapelle du Méjan, in a tree that doesn't look as if it's in bronze (though it is), an engraved stone lintel is balanced on branches in…
We sponsor Les Rencontres d'Arles because it is the world's best photography festival. Since we started the Prix Pictet in 2008 we have always regarded the festival as the best…
Olympus offers each year a carte blanche to a photographer during the Rencontres d’Arles. After Jean-Christian Bourcart, Stanley Greene and Denis Darzacq, it is now the turn of Klavdij Sluban…
It suffices to say its name to conjure up a shimmering field of violet waves. The soothing image and perfume of lavender are integral to Provence’s landscape and to the…
In anticipation of the cultural complex dedicated to the production of art and ideas currently being developed, with American architect Frank Gehry, for the Parc d’Ateliers in Arles, the Luma…
For the third edition of Hermès Editeur, I chose to call on the talent of Hiroshi Sugimoto, I met when travelling in Asia a few years before. Sugimoto’s approach to…