Luce Lebart is an art historian specializing in photography. Since September 2011, she has overseen the collections of the Société Française de Photographie. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles, her research focuses on scientific and documentary photography,...

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Alexandre Maubert’s work plays with a process of permanent deterritorialisation. From film to installation, photography to new media, his images constantly oscillate between diverse boundaries (geographic and aesthetic), as though to better invalidate or affirm them. The important elemen...

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The Egypt 3000 project deals with the complex relationship between contemporary Egypt and its glorious past. The project started to take shape between October 2003 and June 2004, when I was working on a CNRS programme in Karnak, in the south of Egypt. The programme mainly consisted in ident...

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An exhibition between Marseilles and Jericho, not as a point of comparison but as a conversation between the images of one and those of the other cities to tackle the more abstract issues of rhythm, light and, most particularly, time. To allow the image to escape from single recognition t...

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Nathalie Gallon, director of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award, explains to us the reason for her presence in Arles. “I have two winners with me. First, an exhibition is on display at the IN, following the publication of Lashkars, milice civile au Pachtounista...

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The alumni association ‘Anciens étudiants de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles’ was founded on July 3, 2012. It was like a large family reunion held in the courtyard of the Hôtel Quiqueran de Beaujeu, the first in 30 years. All the former directors of the s...

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Twelve Photographers from four continents on Prix Pictet 'Power' Shortlist. The names of the twelve photographers, whose outstanding portfolios on the theme of Power have been shortlisted for the fourth Prix Pictet, was announced this evening in the opening week of the global pho...

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Dulce Pinzon is a Mexican photographer born in 1974. Her series Superheroes featured in the 2011 Rencontres d’Arles. 
As Pinzon says herself, “After September 11, the idea of the ‘hero’ became little by little ubiquitous in the public consciousness.” In everyday life, we overloo...

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Elliott Erwitt : The famous photographer is alone on stage to present his oeuvre. Music: Linda Edsjö. A screening of the fifteen artists nominated in 2012, presented by the five nominators: Phillip S. Block, Deputy Director for Programs for the International Center o...

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Arles, day 3, day Ferrades in the country side . Horse riders, their costumes, the young bull, dancers, music, marked a parenthesis in this festival of photography. In the afternoon I go to the toy store that exposes its cabinet of curiosities. 27 artists are together in the same gal...

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The Association Pour l’Instant presents the Villa Pérochon - Centre d'Art Contemporain de Photographie in Arles. Through July 21, the Bourse du Travail will put on five photography exhibitions and three screenings. The screenings will present an extract of the association’s archives,...

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The Galerie Joseph Antonin presents Résistance. The exhibition brings together the work of four artists who use the body and nudity as means of expression and elevation leading toward a sacred space. The recurring theme of the show is resistance. The works come together—complementing an...

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Every year for the past few decades, Serge Assier has presented, outside of the official program, an exhibition on a theme or an homage, often in collaboration with a poet or writer. This year, the exhibition is a double homage celebrating Fernando Arrabal’s 80th birthday and ...

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The second edition of the festival Circulation(s) that took place in Bagatelle Park in Paris last March was a successful experience. It received about 25’000 visitors. Offering a fresh perspective on Europe through photography, the Festival Circulation(s) h...

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In 1986, the city of Mérignac (the 2nd largest city in the Gironde region of France) turned its old church of Saint-Vincent, built between 1122 and 1131, into an exhibition hall. After a few photography exhibits (Jean Dieuzaide, "Tendance floue"…), Daniel Margnes, associate ...

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