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…
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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…
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…
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,…
Born in Australia. Lives and works in London. Brett Rogers is the Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, London, the first publicly funded gallery dedicated solely to photography in the UK.…
Since 1996 when Olga Sviblova founded the Multimedia Art Museum (formerly known as the Moscow House of Photography), she has overseen the acquisition of more than 80,000 photographs of Russian…
With his photographic series, Martin Becka questions us about the meaning of the organisation of our present and about our aspirations for the future. [...] Dubai, [...] cliché of modernity,…
This is the story of four strong and feisty woman, exiled to the four corners of the globe, four Palestinian-Lebanese sisters who crossed the 20th century. It is a story…