It was Wednesday evening at the ancient theater, a tribute to Roger Thérond, director of Match, founder of Photo and a passionate collector. Some close friends and collaborators evoked him, one by one. Didier Rapaud, Olivier Royant, Jean-François Leroy, Sebastiao Salgado, Philippe Garne...

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Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu served as inspiration for Cy Twombly as he composed his exhibitions for Avignon and Arles. A kind of retrospective, looking back on the early days of learning, as if nostalgically filtering out the happ...

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In 2002, with the help of the Luma Foundation, the Festival des Rencontres d’Arles created an Award to encourage artists. In 10 years, more than 50 nominators have come to present their promising artists, promoting diversity. This year’s 42nd Rencontres honors 10 year...

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From July 4 to August 20, The Eglise Saint-Blaise will be hosting the burgeoning works of three graduating students from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP). Oscar Dumas, Julie Fischer and Pierre Toussaint</strong...

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Arles, it's one square kilometer, where everyone runs into everyone!

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Morgante tells the story of individuals linked by a common denominator: to be dwarfs. “Morgante”, nicknamed the Giant from the poem by Luigi Pulci, was the most famous of all five dwarfs in the court of Medicis in Florence. He was by then represented as “monstrum”.

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Since 1996, the “Voies Off” Festival organizes an event aimed at promoting emergent contemporary photography during the professional week of the Rencontres d’Arles. Arles becomes, for a week, the city of photography.

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Wang Quingsong is a 45 year old Chinese artist. In 2006, he was honored with the 'Dialogue de l'Humanité' prize for his work Vie Splendide (splendid life). Today, he is returning to Arles with his latest work entitled The Monument's Story, an enormous oeuvre more than ...

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It’s the story
The story of meetings
Meeting men and landscapes
Landscape and a photographer

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A wink to "Des Clics et des classes", organized within the Rencontres (a nation-wide operation devoted to sensitizing young people to photography), the workshops shown here have been selected by the galleries Lumière des Roses and Un Livre, une Image.

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Every year for at least ten years I went hunting for a model for my photo shoot in Arles. It was during the years 1989-1998. Someone suggested a French photographer who accepted posing on the roof of a building, Place du Forum. I have a small series of 20 pictures that I might publish one ...

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