I mainly work in black and white because to me that simplify my visual world. [...] In the 22 Conjurations, Skirts, Flatland and Spaceland series, the monochrome mode allows me…
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At the age of four, after the death of his parents, Nikolai Bakharev was placed in an orphanage. He became a mechanic in the steel industry and in 1970 began…
Alexandre Slussarev started taking photos in 1959 and quickly became a member of the USSR Youth Organisation Committee’s photographic section. In 1962 and 1964, he participated in the “ Our…
I have been supporting the Rencontres with the LUMA Foundation for more than 10 years now. The foundation helps the Rencontres build and consolidate their international influence. Thus, the discovery…
Born 1970 in Beirut. Lives and works in Beirut. Zeina Arida was educated between Beirut and Paris. She studied Literature and Theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated in…
A retrospective exhibition is presented for the first time at the Rencontres d’Arles. Sergio Larrain (1931-2012) grew up in Chile in a family of cultivated notables, surrounded by books and…
My encounter with Sergio Larrain was both luminous and frustrating. He was driven by the obsession of converting me to yoga and Buddhism with the aim to get me to…
For over 20 years Wolfgang Tillmans has tested and expanded the possibilities of photography in the most varied ways through his photographic and video works. His exhibition New World presents…
The Rencontres d'Arles opens today. Is the theme "Arles is Black" a provocation, a challenge, pure nostalgia or a statement of belief? Time will tell! The programme looks very promising:…
In the Netherlands and abroad Viviane Sassen is known foremost as an artist, whose somewhat surreal, colorful photographs of Africa won her the Prix de Rome in 2007. Alongside her…