Today, La Lettre is celebrating, and has three reasons to do so. The first reason is the launch of the new version of the web site, that, 9 months after it's initial launch, has shed it's old skin, thanks to Jose Carlos Joaquim, our web developer.

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Chris Marker is not really a photographer. His images are like a film strip cut with scissors. They recount the same story that their creator whispers in a low voice. A story of time that has nothing to do with the one that freezes the click of the shutter. It is by literature tha...

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Koreans is one of the doyennes of the work of Chris Marker featured this year in Arles, telling a story through images and text of a trip to North Korea in the late 1950’s. A walk through the everyday life of people that despise today’s keyhole journalism.

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From 2004 to 2008, and this before Passengers, Chris Marker developped for the first time his idea of photographic reportage in the Parisian underground. Quelle heure est-elle? shows women in black and white in a pale metro.

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From 2008 to 2010, Chris Marker, 90 years old, invaded the Parisian metro and photographed it’s occupants on the fly. His photographs are a way of making a portrait of a common space that had always intrigued him by the stunning connectivity that it brings about between people. ...

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During opening week at the Rencontres d’Arles, the evening programs are comprised of unique works organized at the Théâtre Antique. The programs feature a photographer’s work, or the work of a photography specialist. Since 2002, these evenings have been organized by Olivier Koechlin with ...

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My first memories of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles date back to 1976, for the 7th edition. I was 13 and already working in the administrative offices with Evelyne Arlaud, Françoise Riss and Marijo Justamond. Then I began working in the press offices with C...

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