Arles puts photography books in pride of place. This is why we're publishing today a portrait of Manfred Heiting by Jeff Dunas. Manfred is the world's foremost photography book collector,…
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The Eglise des frères Prêcheurs is one of the most spectacular, inhabited, seductive and problematic places used during the Rencontres. We all still remember the shock of discovering 'Chaos' (the…
An astonishing personality, obsessive perfectionist, provocateur par excellence and a creator of genius, Guy Bourdin was one of the most flamboyant photographers of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. His biographer,…
Album Beauty is an ode to the vanishing era of the photo album as told through the collection of Erik Kessels. Once commonplace in every home, the photo album has…
From childhood, Pierre Jamet had two passions: singing, which became his career after the Second World War, and photography, which was to remain a hobby throughout his life. At…
These days, each World Press Photo announcement, each Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, each publication of a photo is hauled up for judgement in front of the 'retouching' courts. Cries…
Originating in India and Pakistan, the Gypsies and Romany have been wandering the earth for over a thousand years, disdaining frontiers and borders. While many of them have settled in…
In the heart of the Camargue, an encounter between photographer Hans Silvester and Chico Bouchikhi, the founder of the Gipsy Kings, orchestrated by Chantal Soler, gave us a moment of…
As its name indicates (‘Mons Majoris’, the highest hill), Montmajour has gently dominated Arles and the surrounding plains since the 10th century. At that time the plains were covered over…
Craig Barber’s portraits show us the people who live and work on the land in upstate New York; they are small-scale farmers and craftspeople he knows and has often worked…