Knowing that great cultural events are always in search of financing, it has become easy to predict their programming without knowing much about it in advance, or simply being aware of the calendar of commemorations, anniversaries or celebrations, modes of subventions of all types.

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After last year’s Argentine theme, this year the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles will feature Mexico as well as an ambitious exploration of the image and the internet. This focus on a country whose rich photographic history began after the revolution in 1910 with such na...

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Trisha Ziff is a British filmmaker who lives and works in Mexico. Curator in contemporary photography, she just finished a documentary about Capa’s Mexican Suitcase, parallel to the exhibition. Motivated by the desire to expose the truth about Spanish history, she...

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Lost since 1939, the Spanish Civil War pictures taken by Robert Capa were presented to the International Center of Photography in 2007. The mysterious “The Mexican Suitcase” and its negatives, exposed at the New York museum last September, are headed for Arles.

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Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (1907-1997), forced to work following the death of both his parents, discovered photography at the age of 14 while working as a laboratory assistant in a studio, before turning into a Hollywood studio photographer in 1932. Back in Mexico, he shot his f...

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New York based French photographer, Christophe Agou will be showing his photographic work Facing Silence at a projection in Méjan during the 42nd edition of the Rencontres d’Arles.

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Fruits, vegetables, animals… These funny and colorful pictures invade Arles every year for the festival des Rencontres de la Photographie. This graphic identity was a choice made by Michel Bouvet, graphic and poster artist. This year, for the 10th...

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You’ll see, it’s simple, Yan Morvan says immediately, In April 1978, Jean-Jacques Naudet published my pictures in PHOTO and asked me to cover Arles for his magazine, La Lettre de la Photographie. Thirty years later, the same person has asked me to cover Paris as I used to cover ...

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It was 1975. I wasn't yet 20... I saw in the Arles programme that Eugene Smith would be a guest of honour. Smith is one of my favourite photographers. So I went for it! A train ticket and a no-star hotel. I found myself on Place du Forum, where, of course, I knew no one... Suddenly ...

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In July 1981, screenings chief Marc Florès was hurriedly preparing the edit for Robert Mapplethorpe's audiovisual programme, for the evening show at the Théâtre Antique. At the time, the projectors were still prototypes. “The booth was actually soundproofed with ordinary glass wool, which...

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In 2009, for the 40th anniversary of the Rencontres d'Arles, an exhibition organized by Catherine Philippot, Jean-Jacques Naudet, Christian Caujolle and Francoise Riss has gathered some of its most memorable souvenirs. Here are 5.

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In 1972, I sent a copy of my first book "The Dream Collector" to Michel Tournier, after reading his novel "The ogre", about a french prisoner of war who collect local children to be soldiars at the German military schools. He invited me to the Arles Festival.

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The idea here is that I was in Arles in 1975. I had just read that Van Gogh went crazy in the noon-day sun of Arles. So I decided to go out at precisely 12:00pm and make a photograph in homage to VG. I came across the architectural detail and noticed that the shadow area was as important ...

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