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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…
Like the archive, the research library is also central to the future cultural centre. Since 2011, after The Human Snapshot symposium, the Luma Foundation has continued its acquisition initiative to…
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…
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,…
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…