That the official catalogue of the Rencontres is published by Actes Sud has become a tradition, an accepted fact, over the years. It runs to over five hundred pages, always…
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In parallel to the exhibition of Lartigue's work from the twenties, the brilliant and urbane "Bibi" period that takes us, under the guidance of Maryse Cordesse, from Deauville to the…
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…
After five years of commitment to the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie at Arles, Olympus has strengthened the partnership with a new project. Three students from the school have…
BMW has supported contemporary art for forty years, photography for the last ten years and the Rencontres d’Arles for four. Supporting such a well known photography festival is an important…
BMW and the Musée Nicéphore Niépce got together in 2011 to create the BMW Residency. It allows a young artist photographer, chosen after a call for candidates, to work on…
Why have you become a patron of the Arles festival? The Fondation d'entreprise Hermès chose to become a patron of the Rencontres d'Arles because the festival is undeniably one of…
In choosing to become a partner of photographic creativity, we hope to show, in an echo of reality in black and white, that we are committed stakeholders in search of…
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…