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Opening of the 56th Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles
Check out our coverage of the world's largest photography festival.
Monday July 7, 2025
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• Festival : In Arles, a Journey to Decolonial lands
• Festival : Todd Hido: “My Use of Color is a Response to a World More Ominous Daily”
• Festival : Nan Goldin: From the Profane to the Sacred
• Festival : In Arles, a Look in the Rearview Mirror
• Festival : Kourtney Roy and Her Eternal Quest Between Two Worlds
• Festival : Kourtney Roy, Desperate Dreamer
• Festival : MYOP: The Pulse Of An Era
• Festival : At the Rencontres d’Arles, the Family in All Its Forms
• Festival : Diana Markosian: My Father, the Stranger
• Festival : Patrick Wack: Invaded Landscapes
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Decolonize your perspective in four exhibitions with the “Counter-Voices” tour. A strong chapter of the 56th edition of the Rencontres de la photographie since it brings together talents from Australia and Brazil, two countries in the spotlight this year.
By Guénola Pellen
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Todd Hido’s “The Light from Within”, presented in Arles, takes us into the misty landscapes of a suburban and rural America rarely shown. In these often desolate geographical in-between spaces, melancholy and beauty emerge, tinged with a mystery enhanced by blurring, darkness, and the artist’s characteristic color palette.
By Guénola Pellen
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The legendary photographer of the American underground scene is exhibiting her latest work at the Saint-Blaise church in Arles, which was unveiled in New York in October 2024.
By Guénola Pellen
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The legendary photographer of the American underground scene is exhibiting her latest work at the Saint-Blaise church in Arles, unveiled in New York in October 2024.
By Guénola Pellen
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With her series “The Tourist” and “Last Paradise,” the photographer and director continues her eccentric wanderings in parallel worlds that she shapes between humor and boredom, tension and suspense, bursts of artifice and kitsch glamour.
By Nathalie Dassa
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Desperate Dreamer is the title of the film produced by Blind, which follows the photographer on location for her series "The Tourist," exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles. Watch it as a companion piece.
By Blind Magazine
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"Mes yeux, objets patients. MYOP, 20 Years of a Story in Motion" at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles marks the 20th anniversary of the MYOP photo agency, with a 400m² manifesto-exhibition on the meaning of bearing witness.
By Gaia Squarci
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A recurring theme in photography, the family—along with all its intimate entanglements—takes center stage at the 56th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles. Across seven exhibitions, the festival invites viewers to explore “Family Stories,” whether harmonious or fractured.
By Guénola Pellen
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Les Rencontres d’Arles is hosting “Father” by Diana Markosian. An intimate narrative recounting the painful reunion of the artist with her father, who remained in Russia while her mother fled an economic crisis with her children and settled in America.
By Lou Tsatsas
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In the exhibition “Azov Horizons,” part of Les Rencontres de la Photographie festival in Arles, photographer Patrick Wack captures a once-idyllic region now suspended between violence, silence, and the fading shadow of what it was before the invasion of southern Ukraine.
By Gaia Squarci
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