Exclusive: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, the Prosecutor from the Paris District Court received a complaint against Corbis, owned by Bill Gates, for misuse of corporate assets, filing a fraudulent bankruptcy claim, and breach of trust !

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The day began in the Arènes for the group picture, 50 people disguised as Van Gogh following Chinese photographer Wang Qingsong's instructions, followed by an Arles favorite, lunch with Marysse Cordesse. The day ended at the Place du Forum.

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For its seventh edition, the Nuit de l’Année leaves the streets of Arles and exhibits in the arenas. Magazine and agency productions, as well as photography collectives will be projected on several screens.

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In 2011 Foam Amsterdam celebrates their 10 year anniversary. Instead of looking back doing retrospectives they decided to dedicate the whole year to look forward and ask the question: What´s Next? Foam invites anyone to join this discussion in a search for the future of p...

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The Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award goes to a photographer or an artist making use of photography, whose work has recently been discovered internationally or deserves to be. The winner is chosen by a vote of photography professionals present in Arles during opening week and re...

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The press conference of the ADIDAEPP (Association for the Defense of the Interest of Donors and Beneficiaries of the Former Photo Asset) ended at noon this Thursday July 7th in the Cour de l’Archevêché in Arles, smothered by the sun of the South of France, at noon.

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This is not the first African exhibition for Gilles Perrin who has
been traveling the continent for over twenty years, counting his trips
to Egypt. The series presented in Arles stems from the Bwaba ceremonies in Burkina Faso.

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In 2009, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Rencontres d'Arles,
François Hébel asked Catherine Philippot, Françoise Riss, Christian
Caujolle and myself to gather the most memorable and surprising
pictures of the Festival. Here are a few of the pictures we selected
back then.

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For this retrospective, we chose to show the photographers rather than their works. Through these pictures, we discover how, over the years, the Rencontres, that began as an informal gathering of amateur photographers, has grown into the world's greatest picture Festival.

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I think that my first memory of the Rencontres is around the mid 1980’s. I was shocked to see projections in the Place du Forum when there were some excellent ones in the magic frame that is the Ancient Theater! I did not understand that it was the birth of the Off, created by Chab...

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In France's small photographic community, being French is not necessarily an advantage, but what's truly inexcusable is to start out by being involved in a popular success. These two words prompt any specialist to uncontrollably wrinkle their nose, and to shrug in the direction of t...

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During the Rencontres, LE BAL BOOKS will be setting up shop in the
independent gallery Hypermarkt, alongside a selection of contemporary artists, the "Oliver Wood" vintage bookstore of London, Emmanuelle Fructus' Parisian 'Un livre, une image' and the British publishing house 'Archive of modern Conflict'.

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