In the ancient theatre in Arles this Saturday, a film will be projected on the street artist JR, who will also hold a conference. Last week he was working in New York on his new project, Inside Out. La Lettre followed him on the streets, on the scaffoldings ...

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On the one hand there is an enormous interest in making photographic works that deal with social issues—but there is little money, little interest on the part of publications, and readers are reluctant to pay for serious journalism.

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If you do a search for ”Chris Boot” on the internet you´ll get 80.200 hits on Google. The first link will lead you to Chris Boot Ltd - the London based publishing company Boot set up in 2001. Chris Boot Ltd published many acclaimed photo books, ranging from contemporary titles that push the bou...

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I interviewed Simon Baker on his only day in London after a trip to Japan and on his way to Arles. Simon Baker is one of the four nominators for this year’s Discovery Award of Les Rencontres d’Arles. He is curator of Photography and International Art at the Tate Modern since Autumn 2009....

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Marion Dubier-Clark is a photographer with a great sense of humour that loves provocation. This is why we gave her carte blanche for her assessment of Recontres d'Arles 2011. We were not let down, the language is hardly refined:

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The M.Y.O.P agency created in 2005 gathers today 13 photographers. Among them : Guillaume Binet, Lionel Charrier, Julien Daniel, Philippe Guionie, Pierre Hybre, Alain Keler, Oan Kim, Stéphanie Lacombe, Stéphane Lagoutte, Ulrich Lebeuf, Olivier Monge, Stéphane Remael, Frédéric Stucin

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Aurore Valade, photographer, only 30 years old, from the Bordeaux school of Beaux-Arts and the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie d'Arles. The young photographer, from the South of France, is participating for the first time in the Photo Folio Review, organized by the Festival Ren...

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The most significant event in the Rencontres d'Arles 2011 est the emergence and the recognition given to "photographers" using internet and the web as their source of inspiration and tools. Sadly the importance given to the curators overanks their selection of artists.

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Last year, he was the Grand prix SFR Jeunes Talents: his “first Arles”. This year, he has returned without any other reason but the pleasure. We feature exclusively his last images on Madagascar.

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The 90' will see the end of the transformation of the Festival. A club of friends of photography became a tribune for images of Fine Art photojournalism, covering fashion to documentary, plasician photography to advertising.

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Benefiting from the night of the Roquette, before hundreds of projectors light up on street corners or in courtyards, Arles was host to countless gallery openings in both sedentary or ephemeral locations. Keeping in mind the ambulatory Tangente group with <stron...

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