Arles 2015 - Rencontres d`Arles

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Arles
2015
MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE ET DE LA COMMUNICATION
DIRECTION RÉGIONALE DES AFFAIRES CULTURELLES PACA
MINISTÈRE DE L’ÉDUCATION NATIONALE,
DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE
RÉGION PROVENCE - ALPES - CÔTE D’AZUR
CONSEIL DÉPARTEMENTAL DES BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE
VILLE D’ARLES
LES RENCONTRES
DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
ExHIbITIONS
JuLy 6TH
— SEPTEmbER 20TH
RENCONTRES-ARLES.COm
PHOTOGRAPHy (DETAIL)
DELPHINE CHANET, Foodshark, 2012
DESIGN ABM STUDIO
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Arles
2015
LES RENCONTRES
DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
opening week
6 — 12 july
Exhibitions & workshops
6 july
— 20 september
press release - April
Press / Claudine Colin Communication
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Les Rencontres d’Arles
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institutional partners
main partners
with special support from
Groupe Total , Prix Pictet, AMANASALTO & IMA,
YellowKorner, swiss confederation,
L’Occitane en Provence, Parmigiani fleurier,
cherry tree arts INITIATIVES, Leica, Métrobus,
Actes Sud, ADAGP, Fnac, luma arles, Communauté
d’agglomération Arles Crau Camargue Montagnet te.
with support from
Institut français, RIVEDROIT Avocats, Pinsent Masons LLP,
Air France, INJEP, Orange Logic, Le Point,libération, OAI13,
l'Œil de la photographie, FISHEYE, Picto, Central Dupon
Images, Processus, Circad, Plasticollage, Atelier
Sunghee Lee & Gambier,
Anita Saxena.
media partners
and with the active collaboration of
École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles,
rectorats de l’académie d’Aix‑Marseille, de Montpellier
et de Nice, DRAC PACA, musée départemental Arles
antique, abbaye de Montmajour, Museon Arlaten,
musée Réat tu, Conseils d’architecture, d’urbanisme
et d’environnement 13, 30 et 34, Service du Patrimoine
de la ville d’Arles, Parc naturel régional de Camargue,
Festival de Marseille, Fondation Van Gogh,
CHÂTEAU D’AVIGNON, SNCF, Maison du geste
et de l’image,Ligue de l’enseignement, Théâtre d’Arles,
l’Étudiant, INA, Bouches-du-Rhône Tourisme,
ASSOCIATION DES MAIRES DE FRANCE.
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the 46th edition of the rencontres d'arles is in honour of lucien clergue (1934-2014)
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a word
from the minister
Fleur Pellerin
Minister of culture and communication
Spellbinding Rencontres d’Arles… Nowhere
else are we so aware of the connection between
a city, its light, its architecture, and an artistic
discipline – photography. The powerful emotion
felt by visitors each year is shared by the artists who
exhibit in this incomparable city, an astonishingly
apt setting for the wonder of photography.
This year is marked by the arrival of a new director,
Sam Stourdzé, successor to François Hébel,
chosen to develop the festival to encompass all
forms of photography and images. For his first
Rencontres, he wanted particularly to highlight the
cross-fertilisation of artistic disciplines, presenting
exhibitions in which photography is counterpointed
by music, cinema, or architecture... This year,
once again, nearly fifty exhibitions make up the
programming of this photographic promenade
through varied sites in the heart of an incomparable
heritage. We also celebrate the inauguration of
‘latelierdesphotographes.com’, a free educational
platform offering introductory workshops in reading
images, directed to a wide range of viewers.
I cannot speak of this 46th Rencontres d’Arles festival
without taking the opportunity to salute the memory
of one of its founding fathers, Lucien Clergue, who
passed away last November. Throughout his life,
this great photographer laboured to bring about the
recognition of photography as an art form on the
same level as painting, engraving, or sculpture,
but also to encourage its popularisation and
continuity, particularly among the young. He made it
possible for photography to be better represented in
French museums, to blossom out in the Rencontres
d’Arles, of course, to be taught in French universities,
and to be recognised by the Académie des BeauxArts of which he was elected member in 2006, the
year a new division was created for photography.
I am particularly moved by the success of each
year’s Rencontres. This success crowns a human
adventure, imagined and created afresh over more
than forty years dedicated to artistic creation. The
École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie
d’Arles will soon figure among the new buildings
which contribute to making the city a centre of
excellence in the realm of photography. Today,
expanding an event on this scale is a challenge
that can only be met with political commitment
and with the local involvement of the region’s
cultural actors. In this spirit, last December I
proposed to local authorities that they sign
agreements allowing us – both national and
regional entities – to make concrete commitments
towards shared cultural policy objectives.
May the Rencontres teams, their new president
Hubert Védrine, successor to Jean-Noël
Jeanneney, their director, Sam Stourdzé, and all
the professionals who contribute wholeheartedly
to the festival’s success accept this testimonial
of my support and my place at their side.
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a special year
Hervé Schiavetti
Mayor of arles
Every Rencontres d’Arles is different, but 2015
will be unique on several counts. First, this will
be the first time the festival takes place without
its founder, Lucien Clergue, who died on 15
November 2014. Lucien was a prophet who bid
farewell to the world of photography during the
Rencontres last summer with expositions at the
Réattu Museum paying him tribute for his 80th
birthday. We will miss him this year. Together, we
will ensure that he is proud of us and of the festival.
old centre that Arles lends the Rencontres are the
soul of the festival and participate in the visitor’s
Arles experience. But the festival’s mission is also to
discover, almost literally to clear, new sites. That’s
why we’re working with the Arles Crau Camargue
Montagnette (ACCM) group of communities to
open the former Papeteries Étienne paper mill in
Trinquetaille for events this summer and exhibitions
in 2016. The collective enthusiasm behind all these
projects is what makes Arles a very special city.
Sam Stourdzé’s arrival as director this year also
opens up a new chapter in the history of the
Rencontres. With his energy and beaming smile,
Sam, who moved to Arles last autumn, has worked
hard planning his first programme, which will
bear his stamp. The association’s new president,
Hubert Védrine, arrives with him. The former
Foreign Affairs Minister’s international stature
and widely recognised authority, especially as
Secretary-General of the Elysée, will be major
assets in supporting and developing the festival.
The team of Jean-Noël Jeanneney (and François
Barré before him) and François Hébel has been
the driving force behind the festival’s tremendous
success in the past 12 years. Hubert and Sam will
carry on their predecessors’ work under their kindly
eye. This new stage begins with a creative balance
between a bold new direction and continuity. I
am sure that professionals and the general public
alike will greet Sam’s highly demanding yet
generous and open programme with enthusiasm.
This year, I am delighted to welcome Fleur Pellerin on
her first visit to Arles as Minister of Culture and thank
her for hosting the festival’s Paris press conference
on rue de Valois, reviving a tradition that is a sign of
institutional recognition and a gesture of friendship
at the same time. I would also like to thank the public
partners that make the festival possible with the
Provence-Alps-Côte d'Azur Regional Council and its
president, Michel Vauzelle; the Bouches-du-Rhône
General Council; the private partners who have
remained true to the festival’s spirit, Olympus, BMW,
Gares & Connexions and Occitane en Provence;
and those that are joining the festival for the first time,
whose commitment I salute: amanasalto & IMA,
YellowKorner, Swiss Confederation and Parmigiani
Fleurier. Last but not least, congratulations and
thanks to the entire Rencontres staff, which has
ensured that the transition between the outgoing and
incoming managing teams was perfectly smooth.
As the tower Frank Gehry designed for the LUMA
Foundation rises up into the sky above Arles in the
summer of 2015, the cornerstone will be laid of the
future École nationale supérieure de la photographie
(ENSP), a project of President Hollande. This year,
the Rencontres will occupy most of the exhibition
spaces in the parc des Ateliers, including the
magnificently renovated Grande Halle and les
Forges, which the LUMA Foundation, chaired by
Maja Hoffmann, has made available, as well as
the Magasin électrique loaned by Actes Sud in a
constructive, friendly climate between all the players
that gladdens my heart. The 12 heritage sites in the
I would like to wish all photography
enthusiasts and everybody who loves
Arles a very beautiful 46th Rencontres.
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rencontres 2015
Hubert Védrine
president of the rencontres d'arles
I was deeply touched when Jean-Noël Jeanneney
asked me to succeed him as president of the
Rencontres d'Arles. And I agreed to with pleasure, not
just because of our long-standing friendship,
but also because of my high regard for his action,
work and commitment; because several other people
whose opinions matter to me backed his proposal;
because I am very fond of Arles, which I got to know
long ago thanks to Michel Vauzelle; and of course
because of my interest in, attraction to and affection
for the world of photography. I do not claim to be
an expert (yet!), but have been striving to become
an enlightened connoisseur for many years.
I do not underestimate the challenges ahead:
extending and developing the brilliant record
of the Jeanneney/Hébel years; adapting the
Rencontres to a new era and a new local, regional
and global context; and strengthening the central,
influential international role the festival has come
to play thanks to Lucien Clergue, his friends
and his successors. That is the spirit in which I
will carry out my duties starting in April 2015.
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qu'est ce que
c'est ?
Sam Stourdzé
director of les Rencontres d’Arles
What is a festival? Neither a museum nor a trade
show; the festival must escape this neither-nor trap
and constantly reaffirm its freedom.
The institutional recognition of photography as an
art – to which the Rencontres d’Arles has greatly
contributed – casts museums as the guardians
of the temple. Trade shows, meanwhile, provide
an overview of the state of the market – which
is too often taken as the state of the art.
The festival, however, is most itself in being multiform
through the variety of its exhibitions, sites, and
artists. The simultaneity of projects makes it possible
to establish dialogues, take risks, dare adventures.
In fact, the alchemy of artistic direction is based
on programming a kaleidoscope of potential
combinations in which exhibitions play off each
other. They expand upon each other, communicate,
challenge, and clash among themselves, in a great
movement of decompartmentalisation. This year
photography will enter into the worlds of music,
film, architecture, slyly reaffirming that it is often to
be found where least expected! It is then up to our
visitors individually to create their own experiences,
to construct their own sequences of exhibits.
The festival is a cultural incubator, combining
short and long duration in its events and
exhibitions. It is an annual x-ray of photographic
creation paired with a festive heart. Every year it
displays trends, blazes paths, deciphers images,
produces meaning, and constructs content.
As a centre of experimentation and cross-disciplinary
exploration, the festival, together with its artists,
contemplates and explores the world of today.
Hybridisation, contamination, confrontation,
friction … photography reinvents itself through
contact at the intersection of disciplines and
movements. Photography itself is a meeting
ground for transdisciplinary dialogues that restore
its vigour. It continues to surprise us today with
its ability to address issues – not solely artistic,
but also social, cultural, and historical ... The wellnamed photographic Rencontres (Encounters)
multiply its impact, echoing and promoting artistic
practices both historical and contemporary.
A place of exchange with artists, between
professionals, and especially with the public, the
festival maps the whole terrain of photography.
For forty-six years, thanks to the inspiration of
its founders and the pugnacity of its successive
directors, the Rencontres d’Arles has been – and
will continue to be – at the side of the artists and
sensitive to the public. For, like no other discipline,
photography and its artists awake the gaze,
provoke dialogue, and encourage encounters.
TO ALL OUR PARTNERS !
Les Rencontres d’Arles thanks the Ministry of
Culture and Communication, the ProvenceAlpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Direction of Cultural
Affairs, the Ministry of National Education, Higher
Education, and Research, the Provence-Alpes-Côte
d’Azur Regional Council, the Bouches-du-Rhône
General Council, the City of Arles, the Canopé
network, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux
and all our public partners whose longstanding
support is so important to us.
Les Rencontres d’Arles must express its gratitude to
our private partners for their generous and faithful
sponsorship; we salute LUMA, Olympus, BMW,
Gares & Connexions, as well as the many partners
we cannot list here. We give a hearty welcome to
all our first-time partners, including amanasalto &
IMA, YellowKorner, the Swiss Confederation, and
Parmigiani Fleurier. Finally, we thank our media
partners, who broadcast the image of our festival far
and wide: ARTE, France Inter, Le Point, Libération,
OAI13, L’Œil de la photographie, and all the others.
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programme
p.11-13
rereading
THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
REVISITED
walker evans
ANONYMOUS
martin gusinde
THE SPIRIT OF THE TIERRA DEL FUEGO PEOPLE
p.25-28
THE PLATFORMS
OF THE VISIBLE
NEW APPROACHES TO
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
stephen shore
paolo woods and gabriele galimberti
THE HEAVENS. ANNUAL REPORT
p.14-21
natasha caruana
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
resonances
PHOTOGRAPHY IN DIALOGUE
ARCHITECTURE
alex majoli and paolo pellegrin
congo
ambroise tézenas
I WAS HERE. DARK TOURISM
LAS VEGAS STUDIO
ARCHIVES from ROBERT VENTURI
& DENISE SCOTT BROWN
thierry bouët
PERSONAL AFFAIRS
TOON MICHIELS
american neon signs by night and day
p.29-31
OLIVIER CABLAT
duck, a theory of evolution
MARKUS BRUNETTI
FACADES
MUSIQUE
TOTAL RECORDS
THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF ALBUM
COVER PHOTOGRAPHY
ODD COLLECTORS
tony oursler
imponderable
vernaculaire !
THREE SeRIES FROM
THE JEAN-MARIE DONAT COLLECTION
SOUVENIRS OF THE SPHINX LIKE A SHORT
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
THE WOUTER DERUYTTER COLLECTION
THE LP COMPANY
THE LP COLLECTION, HIDDEN TREASURES
OF UNDERGROUND MUSIC
P.3238
MMM
MATtHIEU CHEDID meets MARTIN PARR
THE DISCOVERY AWARD
CINÉMA
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
look at me
SANDRO MILLER
MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH
p.22-24
I AM WRITING TO YOU
FROM A FAR OFF
COUNTRY
photographic
correspondence
another language
eight Japanese Photographers
emergences
anna orlowska
shilo group
artists presENTed by krzysztof candrowicz
lisa barnard
robert zhao renhui
artists presENTed by louise clements
pauline fargue
Julián Barón
artists presENTed by fannie escoulen
delphine chanet
omar victor diop
artists presENTed by claire jacquet
paola pasquaretta
the cool couple
artists presENTed by francesco zanot
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Olympus engages in a
photographic conversation
dorothée smith / rebecca topakian
denis darzacq / swen renault
paolo woods / elsa leydier
alice wielinga
NORTH KOREA, A LIFE BETWEEN
PROPAGANDA AND REALITY
p.46-52
opening week
night
evenings at the THÉâTRE ANTIQUE
martin parr / matthieu chedid
2015 DISCOVERY AWARD
jacques attali, A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
edward S. curtis / rodolphe burger
AN UNUSUAL ATTENTION
selection of works by three 2015
graduates FROM THE ENSP
the night of the year
p.39-41
MEETINGS / CONFERENCES / DEBATES
arles books
COSMOS-ARLES BOOKS
New publishing practices
day
BARTHES IS BACK
The Collaborative Economy: Issues for Photographers
OLYMPUS ENCOUNTERS
EXHIBITION TOURS
book signings
THE 2015 BOOK AWARDS
PHOTO FOLIO REVIEW
LUMA RENCONTRES
DUMMY BOOK AWARD
arles 2015
PHOTOGRAPHY AUCTION
p.53-60
P.42-45
eDUCATION
& training
TOGETHER, PHOTOGRAPHY
The collections of the Maison
Européenne de la Photographie
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS
CLICKS AND CLASSES
EDUCATIONAL DOMAIN
THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES ONLINE LIBRARY
ASSOCIATED PROGRAM
DARING PHOTOGRAPHY
FIFTY YEARS OF AVANT-GARDE
COLLECTION IN ARLES
p.61-64
IMAGES/LANDSCAPES/SHORES
COLLECTION FROM THE
CONSERVATOIRE DU LITTORAL
SUMMER IN ARLES
IT’S SUNNY, I’M GOING OUT
ART RESEARCHES #4
PRATICAL INFORMATION
RAYMOND HAINS, PHOTOGRAPHER
VINCENT FERRANÉ
BIENVENUE
p.65-69
p.70-80
partners
p.81-84
photographs
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A new visual
identity
ABM Studio
Designing a new visual identity for
Arles/Les Rencontres de la photographie is a
tremendous challenge for our studio: the one
Michel Bouvet created and implemented left
its stamp on the festival and an epoch.
Sam Stourdzé, its new director, and Aurélien Valette,
its communication director, sparked passionate
debate about what cultural communication
means in a world overrun by advertising,
incessant flows of information and images.
The choice of a clear, sharp strategy specific to the
Rencontres “imposed” the return of photography as
the central element, both to signal a new tone and
to confront the festival’s very purpose, photography,
with the communication space where it is so often
distorted, spoiled and derided, and where it seems
so hard to reveal it. How can a single image be
selected from the thousands on display? How can
it be given a special status without distorting it?
We opted for a simple, radical gesture: a turnaround,
a 180-degree rotation that changes the physics of the
image, catches our eye, alters our perception and
attracts our attention beyond what is seen. This homage
to the origins of photography, the camera obscura, is
transposed to the present, when communication has
become a sophisticated game of marketing codes
and solutions. We think it is vital to question them,
to challenge them and to change their point of view.
Here the image must be an experience accompanying
a thoroughly contemporary programme.
We have decided to give the image maximum space
by grouping the information (title, dates, mentions and
partners’ logos) together on a white rectangular card,
which makes the most of its effectiveness and qualities.
This choice will undoubtedly spark debate; it
might even cause a few stiff necks. It will take
a bit of time being accepted. We are lucky to
belong to the Rencontres team, which allows us
to work over the long term and to take risks.
Arles
2015
MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE ET DE LA COMMUNICATION
DIRECTION RÉGIONALE DES AFFAIRES CULTURELLES PACA
MINISTÈRE DE L’ÉDUCATION NATIONALE,
DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE
RÉGION PROVENCE - ALPES - CÔTE D’AZUR
CONSEIL DÉPARTEMENTAL DES BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE
VILLE D’ARLES
LES RENCONTRES
DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
ExHIbITIONS
JuLy 6TH
— SEPTEmbER 20TH
PHOTOGRAPHy (DETAIL)
DELPHINE CHANET, Foodshark, 2012
DESIGN ABM STUDIO
Arles
Arles
2015
2015
REreading
the history of
photography revisited
REREADING THE GREAT MASTERS BY
FOCUSING ON LITTLE-KNOWN ASPECTS OF
THEIR WORK OR SHOWING THEIR ENTIRE
CAREERS AT ONE TIME.
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WALKER EVANS
Musée Départemental Arles Antique
Born 1903, Saint-Louis, United States. Died 1975, New Heaven, United States.
ANONYMOUS
Walker Evans (1903-1975) remains one of the most important and influential photographers in the history of the
medium. His career spanned the emergence of the modern mass media in the 1920s to the full acceptance of pho‑
tography as an art form in the 1960s and 70s. Many of Evans’s individual images have become landmarks in both
the history of photography and the social history of that era. Without Evans the development of photography would
have been very different, particularly in North America.
This innovative exhibition takes a different look at Evans, placing the emphasis on his printed pages, and in particular
his work for American magazines. Evans began to publish in 1929 and soon found ways to set his own assignments,
write the accompanying words and design his layouts. He worked in black and white and colour. Over nearly four
decades Evans used the popular magazine page to produce a resistant counter-commentary on American society
and its values. Where the mass media enjoyed celebrity culture, Evans photographed anonymous citizens. Where
the mass media promoted consumerism, Evans valued enduring objects and the persistence of the past in the
present. Experimental and yet classical, Evans’s photo-essays have been overlooked until recently.
Walker Evans, Anonymous presents original magazine pages alongside vintage prints and related material, loo‑
king at Evans as a pioneer of modern photography, editing, writing and design. The exhibition includes Evans’s
many attempts to shoot unnamed citizens on American streets and the New York subway, his images of popular
graphics and vernacular architecture, and his celebrations of everyday life.
Exhibition curators: David Campany, Jean-Paul Deridder and Sam Stourdzé.
Exhibition coproduced by the A Stichting Foundation, Bruxelles, and the Rencontres d’Arles.
Publication: David Campany, Walker Evans, The Magazine Work, Steidl, 2014.
Exhibition venue: Musée Départemental Arles Antique.
STEPHEN SHORE
Espace Van Gogh
Born 1947, New York, United States. Lives and works in New York, United States.
Stephen Shore is one of the most important and visibly influential photographers of the past three decades. The
new approach that defines his contribution to photography and its language has continued to arouse the interest
of different generations of artists and he remains a key reference point for young photographers working today.
This exhibition, which is the most comprehensive to date on the artist’s work, focuses on understanding his artistic
approach. It offers a contemporary reassessment of projects such as Uncommon Places and American Surfaces
in relation to other less well known or unpublished works. And secondly, it reveals how his work embodies the
complex exchange and feedback operations that took place between the art and photography worlds from the
mid-1960s onwards.
Marta Dahó
Exhibition curator: Marta Dahó.
Exhibition organised by the FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE in collaboration with the Rencontres d’Arles.
With support from Parmigiani Fleurier.
Publication: Stephen Shore, Éditions Xavier Barral, 2014.
Exhibition venue: Espace Van Gogh.
www.stephenshore.net
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stephen shore
West Ninth Avenue, Amarillo, Texas, October 2, 1974, from the Uncommon Places series.
Courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
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Arles
2015
ReSO
NANCES
PHOTOGRAPHy
in DIALOGUE
ARCHITECTURE AROUND THE POSTMODERN FIGURES OF
ROBERT VENTURI AND DENISE SCOTT BROWN, MUSIC OR
CINEMA: PHOTOGRAPHY IS EVERYWHERE, EVEN WHERE
YOU LEAST EXPECT IT!
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ARCHITECTURE
laS vegas studio
Grande Halle
Robert Venturi is born in 1921 in Philadephia, United States. He lives in Philadelphia, United
States.
Denise Scott Brown is born in 1931 in Zambia. She lives and works in Philadelphia, United
States.
IMAGES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF ROBERT VENTURI AND DENISE SCOTT BROWN
Learning from Las Vegas, a treatise on architectural theory published in 1972, captivates us primarily through its
engaging visual discourse developed during Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s 1968 research. For Venturi,
Scott Brown, and their collaborator, Steven Izenour, photography was both the means of argumentation and repre‑
sentation of their research. The genuinely pictorial, the photographic quality, provided a decisive guide in our rea‑
ding. We removed the pictures from their original analytical context and present them as photographic sensations.
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown allowed us full access to their archive for this project. The opportunity to
gain insight into this collection of images was a particularly memorable experience for us. The exhibition was first
shown at the Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland.
Hilar Stadler et Martino Stierli
Exhibition curators: Hilar Stadler and Martino Stierli.
Exhibition produced by the Museum im Bellpark, Kriens.
With support from Swiss Confederation.
Publication: Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archive of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008 (coming soon in French).
Exhibition venue: Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers.
toon michiels
Église des Trinitaires
Born 1950, Boxtel, the Netherlands. Lives and works in Den Dungen, the Netherlands.
American Neon Signs by Night and Day
In the mid seventies, Toon Michiels made various journeys to the United States of America, where he undertook a
number of road trips in a rented. Very quickly, Michiels developed a fascination for the spectacular neon signs that
motels and restaurants had placed along the highways to lure passing drivers to make a stop-over. The neon signs
meant to trigger anyone’s attention and fantasy, with their playful graphic and architectural qualities and colourful
lights. Michiels photographed them by day and by night in a rigid, systematic way: frontal view, placing them in
the middle of the frame with just a bit of space around them – whatever size they might be. The series connects
strongly with the typological work of the German photographers Bernd & Hilla Becher, but one may also see a
parallel with the pre-WWII work of Walker Evans, who was equally fascinated by text in photographs. Michiels
photographed his anonymous sculptures in full colour, in a time when colour photography was hardly considered a
serious art medium. This fact, in combination with its clarity and richness, makes this project stand out in the history
of 20th Century photography.
Frits Gierstberg
Exhibition curator: Sam Stourdzé, in collaboration with Christien Bakx et Erik Kessels.
Texts: Frits Gierstberg, chief curator, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam.
Exhibition coproduced by the Rencontres d'Arles and The Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam.
Exhibition venue: Église des Trinitaires.
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olivier cablat
Grande Halle
Born 1978, Marignane, France. Live and works in Arles, France.
DUCK, A THEORY OF EVOLUTION
In 1930, duck farmer Martin Maurer had a duck-shaped building constructed to house his retail poultry shop in
Flanders, a small town on Long Island, New York.
In 1972, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour wrote Learning from Las Vegas, in which they
examined the concepts of vernacular, functional and commercial architecture. They identified two main kinds of
buildings: the ‘Decorated Shed’ and the ‘Duck’, the architecture of which fully expresses the functional or com‑
mercial content of a building. In 2014, Olivier Cablat revived the idea by compiling archives made up of his own
photographs, digitalised publications and pictures from the Internet. Those digital archives are the basis of DUCK,
A Theory of Evolution, a genealogical study of the Duck and its evolution towards mobile forms that have more or
less strayed from the original concept. The project is also a reflection on the relationship between a work and the
forms it can take.
A project initially produced by Festival Images (Vevey, Switzerland), winner of the Nestlé Prize of the Vevey International Photography Award 2013-2014.
With support from Swiss Confederation.
Publication: DUCK, A Theory of Evolution, RVB Books/Festival images, 2015.
www.oliviercablat.com
markus brunetti
Grande Halle
Born 1965, Bavaria, Germany. Lives and works with his partner Betty Schöner as self-determined
modern nomads, traveling Europe.
FACADES
In 2005 Markus Brunetti set out on a long journey through Europe that so far has lasted ten years, until the summer
of 2015. In the course of this journey his enthusiasm for the façades of sacred buildings has grown. During this
journey to the artistic and architectural roots of European culture, he has developed his own method of capturing
and reproducing images. At first glance his works seem to resemble New Objectivity style documentary, but upon
closer inspection it becomes clear that he is pursuing a complex visual strategy based on central perspective,
which begins with an intensive research of the buildings and facades. The FACADES by Markus Brunetti evoke
enthusiasm—or a sense of estrangement. The pictures are digitally captured and meticulously worked out in a
time-consuming process. They challenge the viewer to take the time to carefully observe them, and not to suc‑
cumb to the habit of rapid consumption so common to our media-driven, visually addicted society.
Markus Hartmann
Exhibition curator: Markus Hartmann.
Publication : FACADES, 2014.
www.markus-brunetti.de
www.hartmannprojects.com
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markus brunetti
Köln, Hohe Domkirche St. Petrus, 2008-2014.
Courtesy of the artist and Hartmann Projects.
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MUSIQUE
TOTAL RECORDS
Atelier des Forges
THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF ALBUM COVER PHOTOGRAPHY
A history of photography through the prism of the vinyl record: both media, which left their mark on the 20th cen‑
tury, were combined in all their forms, from artwork to illustration, figuration to experimentation. The show is based
on this diversity of intentions and propositions. Many photographers have left their mark on these 30x30-centime‑
ter covers. Looking at an album cover, you can almost hear what you see. Photographers illustrated many classics.
Who hasn’t purchased a record based on its cover? The image of Abbey Road has come down through the past
half-century just as surely as the Beatles’ music. Some photographers built a style; others built icons. Labels built
visual identities where photography mattered more than anything else. Every technique—from photojournalism
to photomontage, photo booths, photos used for a purpose other than that for which they were intended, overex‑
posed photos and photos within the photo—can be found in these 30x30-centimeter squares. The deeper you dig,
the vaster the subject seems.
Jacques Denis
Exhibition curators: Antoine de Beaupré, Serge Vincendet and Sam Stourdzé.
The section on the Blue Note record label is produced by the Kyotographie festival.
The exhibition curators are Michael Cuscuna (Mosaic Records) and Lucille Reyboz & Yusuke Nakanishi (Kyotographie).
The exhibition is produced by The Rencontres d'Arles, with the participation of Kyotographie for the section ‘Francis Wolff and Blue Note Records’.
Parution: Total Records, la grande aventure des pochettes de disques photographiques, éditions 123, 2015.
Exhibition venue: Atelier des Forges, Parc des Ateliers.
THE LP COMPANY
Atelier des Forges
Laurent Schlittler was born in London, United Kingdom, in 1966. He lives and works in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
Patrick Claudet was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1973. He lives and works in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
THE LP COLLECTION, HIDDEN TREASURES OF UNDERGROUND MUSIC
The LP Collection exhibition presents a snapshot of Laurent & Patrick (LP) work of documentation and distribution
focusing on collection of some 6 000 discs. Drawing upon film and photography as well as text and performance,
their project expanded into a series of musical productions in the form of digital and physical albums. Tracking
these shadowy bands, Laurent & Patrick discovered a series of objects and photographs, relics of this under-theradar musical subcontinent. The exhibition makes this multiform trove available for the first time.
Exhibition curator: Sam Stourdzé.
With support from Swiss Confederation and ProHelvetia.
Publication : The LP Collection. Hidden Treasures of Underground Music, LP Books, 2013; The LP Collection. Les trésors cachés de la musique underground, Le Mot
et le reste, 2014.
www.thelpcompany.com
www.thelpcollection.com
MMM
Matthieu chedid meets MArtin parr
Artistic direction: Matthieu Chédid, Martin Parr and Sam Stourdzé,
with the cooperation of Charlotte Ortiz.
Exhibition corpoduced by Labo M, Magnum Photos and the Rencontres d'Arles.
Coordination Labo M: Gaspard Borgeaud.
Music and composition by M.
Musical direction, sound design and arrangements by Pierre Boscheron.
Prints by Martin Parr studio, London.
Video Editing: Sophie Bassaler.
Exhibition venue: église des Frères-Prêcheurs.
www.martinparr.com
Église des frères -prêcheurs
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TOTAL RECORDS
(from top to bottom)
Boz Scaggs, Middle Man, Columbia FC 36106, États-Unis, 1980. Photography by Guy Bourdin.
Courtesy of The Guy Bourdin Estate, 2015.
Manitas de Plata, Juerga, Philips 844 535 PY, France, 1963. Photography de Lucien Clergue.
Courtesy of Clergue family.
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CINeMA
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Abbaye de Montmajour
Born 1940, Tehran, Iran. Lives and works in Tehran, Iran.
LOOK AT ME
The Iranian director takes a voyage through seeing with the series Look at Me. Over the past few years, in parallel
with his burgeoning filmography, Abbas Kiarostami has developed a shape-shifting oeuvre in which poetic accents
mellow impetuous verve. Painter, poet, and photographer in turn, here this prolific artist is playing a shell game
where mystification vies with reality. In the course of his many visits ‘to the museum’, particularly the Louvre, the
artist slips unrecognised among the tourists and captures, with an almost sociological attention, these pilgrims who
become protagonists of the images that he in turn composes. Ambiguity arises from the mingling of contemporary
reality with the historical décor serving as their setting. Like the iconic spiralling chignon worn by Kim Novak in
Hitchcock’s Vertigo, which matches that of the portrait she contemplates, patterns are used by Abbas Kiarostami to
capture a similarity that creates misdirection. These hats, necks, and serpentine contours, in providing their detail,
are merely pretexts to enter into the picture. The multiplication of successive layers of representation is, for the
director, a way of both exacerbating unease and interrogating tradition in the light of modernity. He makes use of
his inclinations toward documentary and the social sciences, creating an endless regression of picture-within-pic‑
ture. And yet, it is not so much a question of mass tourism as of a place of shared memory, revealing our relationship
to the image. By referring to large-scale history painting, Abbas Kiarostami seeks to address the history of the gaze.
Is not the frame the common denominator which, from painting to film, allows us to traverse all disciplines?
Exhibition curator: Marin Karmitz et Sam Stourdzé.
With support from Centre des Monuments Nationaux.
Exhibition venue: Abbaye de Montmajour.
SANDRO MILLER
Abbaye de Montmajour
Born 1958, Elgin, United States. Lives and works in Chicago, United States.
Mostly self-taught, Sandro learned his craft by studying books published by many of the great artists canonized in
photographic history, and is now considered as one of the top advertising photographers worldwide. Sandro first
met Malkovich in the late 1990s. More than 16 years later, they are still collaborating, which can be seen in their
latest project, Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters. In 2013, Sandro decided to
do a project honoring the men and women whose photographs helped shape his career. After selecting forty-one
images to emulate, Sandro contacted Malkovich, who instantly agreed to participate. John Malkovich demons‑
trates his chameleon-like proclivity, morphing into Albert Einstein, Che Guevara, John Lennon or Andy Warhol.
Through his immense skill and Sandro’s amazing photographic eye, this series pays respect to photographic his‑
tory through the genius of a photographer and his muse.
Catherine Edelman, director of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.
With support from the Centre des Monuments Nationaux.
Exhibition venue: Abbaye de Montmajour.
www.sandrofilm.com
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sandro miller
Pierre et Gilles / Jean-Paul Gaultier (1990), 2014.
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
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Arles
2015
I am writing
to you from
a far off
country
SPOTLIGHT ON A PART OF THE WORLD, LIKE A
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.
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another language
Église Sainte-Anne
Eikoh Hosoe (1933), Masahisa Fukase (1934-2012), Daido Moriyama (1938), Masatoshi Naito
(1938), Issei Suda (1940), Kou Inose (1960), Sakiko Nomura (1967), Daisuke Yokota (1983)
eight Japanese Photographers
This exhibition is comprised of over 200 prints, both vintage and contemporary, which, for the most part, have
never previously been seen in Europe. There are new and unseen bodies of work by some of the best-known prac‑
titioners, like Hosoe and Moriyama; key works by lesser-known but equally important historic figures like Fukase,
Inose, Naito and Suda. From precise formal compositions, to landscapes, street photography, and theatrical per‑
formance, from the 1960s to the present day, Another Language offers a new perspective on photography in
Japan, from the known to the unknown, the classic to the avant-garde.
Simon Baker
Exhibition curator : Simon Baker.
Exposition realised in collaboration with Akio Nagasawa (Tokyo), Jean-Kenta Gauthier (Paris) et G/P (Tokyo) galleries, and coproduced by the Rencontres d'Arles.
With support from amanasalto & IMA
and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.
Publication: Another Language. 8 Japanese photographers, IMA, 2015 (trilingual edition).
Exhibition venue: église Sainte-Anne.
martin gusinde
Cloître Saint-Trophime
Born 1886, Wroclaw, Poland. Died 1969, Mödling, Austria.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TIERRA DEL FUEGO PEOPLE
Between 1918 and 1924, over four journeys, the German missionary Martin Gusinde became the only anthropo‑
logist who had been capable of conducting an in-depth study of the Selk’nam, Yamana, and Kawésqar societies,
which were by then already considerably diminished. The 1 200 photographs he brought back with him constitute
a unique testimonial. What might have remained simply a classic example of an ethnographic missionary’s journey
emerges today as an unprecedented experience in the field. Gusinde was deeply immersed within these societies,
to the point of being introduced to the Hain initiation rite. is isolation on the other side of the world and intense
involvement in the field lends a great singularity to his approach. Portraits constitute the vast majority of these
images and bodies are the most common subjects, in their most extraordinary expressions, which are those of the
spirits and of the actors of the initiation rites. While these pictures reveal a world that remains largely inaccessible,
they enable us to catch a glimpse of the legendary and rich diversity of societies that had until then barely been
considered worthy of attention.
Christine Barthe et Xavier Barral
Exhibition curators: Christine Barthe and Xavier Barral.
In collaboration with the Anthropos Institute, the depository of this collection.
Publication: L'Esprit des hommes de la Terre de Feu, Éditions Xavier Barral, 2015.
Exhibition venue: Cloître Saint-Trophime.
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martin gusinde
Ulen, the male buffoon. His role is to entertain the Hain spectators. Hain ceremony, Sel’knam rite, 1923.
Courtesy of Martin Gusinde/Anthropos Institut/Éditions Xavier Barral
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Arles
2015
THE
PLATFORMS
OF THE
VISIBLE
NEW APPROACHES TO
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
OBSERVATORY OF DOCUMENTARY
PHOTOGRAPHY, A CHANGING PRACTICE.
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PAOLO WOODS
and GABRIELE GALIMBERTI
Palais de l’Archevêché
Paolo Woods was born in 1970, the Netherlands. He lives and works in Italy.
Gabriele Galimberti was born in 1977, Italy. He lives and works in Italy.
THE HEAVENS, ANNUAL REPORT
Tax havens have quietly taken the world by storm. The growing flow of articles and reports on this poorly unders‑
tood subject are usually illustrated with images of palm-fringed tropical beaches. Is that what tax havens really look
like? From Delaware to Jersey; from the British Virgin Islands to the City of London, Paolo Woods and Gabriele
Galimberti take us on a tour into a rarely seen, secretive world that is quite different from what we imagine. For over
two years they have travelled to the offshore centers that embody tax avoidance, secrecy, and extreme wealth,
driven by a constant obsession with translating this rather immaterial subject into images. They have actually crea‑
ted a company, aptly named ‘The Heavens’, based in the same nondescript Delaware office as Apple, Bank of
America, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Google, Wal-Mart and 285,000 other businesses. Tax havens are not an
exotic tropical eccentricity, but have become a structural instrument of the globalized economy. They confront us
with fundamental moral issues, involving the relationships between public and private; between companies and
states; and between the haves and the have-nots.
With support from Olympus.
Publication: Les Paradis, Delpire, 2015; The Heavens, Dewi Lewis, 2015..
Exibition venue: Palais de l'Archevêché.
www.paolowoods.net
www.gabrielegalimberti.com
winner of the 2014 BMW Residency at the musée Nicéphore Niépce
NATASHA Caruana
HENRI- COMTE
Born 1983, London, United-Kingdom. Lives and works in London, United-Kingdom.
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
Ms. Caruana, winner of the 2014 BMW Residency at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, is trying to find out the truth
about love at first sight. Married just a few days before her Residency started, she draws from her own life, popular
myths and research by neuroscientists, biologists and anthropologists. Through photography, she tries to get to
the bottom of a phenomenon nobody has ever been able to explain.
Exhibition curator: François Cheval.
Exhibition produced by BMW with support from the Musée Nicéphore Niépce.
Publication: Coup de foudre, éditions Trocadéro, 2015.
Exhibition venue: Salle Henri-Comte.
ALEX MAJOLI
and PAOLO PELLEGRIN
Magasin Électrique
Alex Majoli was born in 1971, Ravenna, Italy. He lives and works in New York, United States.
Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964, Rome, Italy. He lives and works in Rome, Italy, and New York,
United States.
CONGO
A photographer, in a certain sense, paints with light. Sometimes, however, a photographer must work—painstakin‑
gly, patiently—with shadow, in order to bring the latter into real life and show us a hidden aspect of reality. This is,
in large part, the secret of this exhibition. Its main character is the Congo, my homeland, which I revisit thanks to
Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin. They successfully avoided the commonest misapprehensions of Africa viewed by
Western eyes: anthropological reporting and exotic travel tales. They confirm that true photography restores inde‑
pendent existence or specific meaning to what seems distant, even devoid of interest. True photography respects
modesty without lapsing into self-censorship. Such scrupulous balance is palpable in this work. The result does not
disappoint: emotion is present and often poignant.
Alain Mabanckou, writer
Exhibition curator: Daria Birang.
With support from Cherry Tree Arts Initiatives.
Publication: Congo. Photographs by Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin, Aperture, 2015; Congo. Photographies par Alex Majoli et Paolo Pellegrin, Cherry Tree Arts
Initiatives, 2014.
Exibition venue: Magasin électrique, Parc des Ateliers.
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AMBROIsE TéZENAS
Grande Halle
Born 1972, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
I WAS HERE, DARK TOURISM
Ambroise Tézenas evokes places marked by tragedy that now have their own guided tours. This phenomenon,
known as ‘dark tourism’, is rooted in our fascination with the human capacity for evil, as well as our desire to see
the aftermath of horror. Earthquakes, tsunamis, devastated or poverty-stricken areas are ‘destinations’ whose dis‑
covery feeds the ambiguous curiosity of a growing number of enthusiasts. Addressing the questions raised by this
new reality, Ambroise Tézenas undertook a long investigation from the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944 to the
ruins left by the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, Ambroise Tézenas travels through the 20th century by
way of Cambodia, Rwanda, Ukraine, and Lebanon. ‘Here, we are gawking at a nightmare’, he sums it up.
Publication: I Was Here, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2014 ; Tourisme de la désolation, Actes Sud, 2014.
www.ambroisetezenas.com
THIERRY BOuëT
Grande Halle
Born 1959, Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
PERSONAL AFFAIRS
‘Hello sir, I’m calling about your ad on Le Bon Coin concerning the horse-riding boots. Are they still available?’
‘Yes, they are.’
‘Great. Where are they from?’
‘An Italian shoemaker.’
‘Are they new or used?’
‘I’ve hardly ever worn them. I got the wrong size. Are you a size 41?’
‘Well, I’m calling you for a rather special reason. I’m a photographer preparing a show about unusual
items people sell on Le Bon Coin. Would it be possible to meet you and photograph your boots?’
Exhibition curator: Sam Stourdzé.
Publication: Affaires privées, Éditions Xavier Barral, 2015.
www.thierrybouet.com
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High-wing airplane
€32,000, Sartrouville
For sale by builder: Lucas L7 metal airplane, Lycomming O 320 engine with a 160cv carburettor, three seats with a hold (dropping pos‑
sible), 650-930 kg, cruising speed 180-200 km/h, maximum speed 250 km/h. CNRA since 2005 and revalidated for 3 years in 2014. 60
hours. Won the RSA prize at Vichy in 2006. Well-equipped control panel (round dials), radio. Transponder inspected and revalidated for
2 years. Based in Les Mureaux, LFXU.
Price: make an offer. Phone calls only.
Pierre, a precision mechanics technician with a vocational certificate as a lathe operator, spent 12 years building his own airplane, which
he flew a total of 60 hours. Starting out with a wad of paper and no screws, this model was designed for scrubland. It is the only one of
its kind to fly. Thanks to its lower hold, it can be used for parachute jumps. Pierre is selling it because of new EU regulations. His basic
license, which allowed him to fly within a 30-kilometre radius, is no longer recognised. He now gives himself four years to build an ultralight aircraft.
thierry bouët
Private Affairs series
Courtesy of the artist.
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Arles
2015
ODD
COLLECTORS
FREE AND PASSIONATE, SOME COLLECTORS SET THEIR
SIGHTS ON UNUSUAL ITEMS, RAISING THE QUESTION OF
THE VERNACULAR.
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LUMA foundation
Tony Oursler
Atelier des Forges
Born 1957, New York, United States. Lives and works in New York, United States.
IMPONDÉRABLE
Imponderable is an extensive research project that investigates the personal collection of American artist Tony
Oursler. The project’s title, Imponderable, suggests the idea of something that cannot be determined with accu‑
racy. Eighteenth-century scientists used the word to describe magnetism, electricity, and other then unquanti‑
fiable energies. For Oursler, these personal archives based on the history of science, optics, performance and
religion also has roots in family history. Curated by Tom Eccles and Beatrix Ruf, Imponderable translates the origi‑
nal archival materials into a new exhibition; a new film, an installation and publication, exploring the boundaries
of human belief and disbelief, the paranormal and mystical exploration. For the LUMA Foundation in Arles, this
exhibition investigates new possibilities for archives and artistic production, which is one of its primary concerns
Exhibition curators: Beatrix Ruf and Tom Eccles.
Commissioned and produced by the LUMA Foundation for the Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France.
Publication: Impondérable. Les archives de Tony Oursler, fondation LUMA, 2015.
www.tonyoursler.com
VERNACULAIRE !
Chapelle DE LA CHARITÉ
Jean-Marie Donat was born in 1962 in Paris, France. He works in Paris, France.
THREE SERIES FROM THE JEAN-MARIE DONAT COLLECTION
The three series presented are from a collection of 10,000 photos compiled over a period of more than 25 years.
One of their distinguishing characteristics is the repetition of a detail, which creates a sense of strangeness that
questions the source of my feelings. The body of work tells stories to those who know how to listen to them.
TeddyBär features photographs taken in Germany between the end of the First World War and the late 1960s.
Anonymous people pose alongside actors dressed up as placid or menacing polar bears, travelling across time.
The history of Germany files past. BlackFace uses photographs of whites who painted their faces black for minstrel
shows or private parties to question how the view of Afro-Americans changed between 1880 and the late 1960s.
Lastly, Predator brings together pictures by amateur photographers from around the world (1920-1970) with one
thing in common: the shadow of the photographer in a hat is in the image. Repetition creates the subject: the same
man is everywhere, all the time, threatening.
Jean-Marie Donat
Publications: BlackFace, TeddyBär, Predator, éditions Innocences.net, 2015.
Exhibition venue: Chapelle de la Charité.
www.Innocences.net
SOUVENIRS OF THE SPHINX Musée Départemental Arles Antique
LIKE A SHORT HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Born 1967, Belgium. Lives and works in New York, United States.
The Wouter Deruytter Collection
The pyramids overshadowed the Sphinx for millennia until drawings, prints and, especially, photographs made
it an icon. Wouter Deruytter’s collection is a history of the photography of this solitary, monumental sculpture.
The Sphinx sits beneath albumin, collodion or gelatine skies in monochrome hues ranging from brown to pale
pink in nineteenth-century photographs to black and white in the twentieth. The Sphinx, a witness to the birth of
archaeology and the growth of tourism, has placidly watched a parade of travellers go by Wouter’s monumental
photographs offer an unprecedented vision of the Sphinx. Exploring the giant with a lion’s body inside and out, the
photographer invites us to the heart of the world’s most enigmatic sculpture. This work and this collection tells us
how much heritage awareness shifts from one object to another. After accompanying and documenting admira‑
tion for the Sphinx, it is the photographs’ turn to be preserved and offered for contemplation.
Luce Lebart
Exhibition curator: Luce Lebart.
Exhibition venue : Musée Départemental Arles Antique, 1rst floor.
www.wouterderuytter.com
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jean-marie donat
TeddyBär, 45.
Courtesy of Jean-Marie Donat.
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Arles
2015
eMERGENCEs
THE FESTIVAL IS A TRAILBLAZER; IT SEEKS OUT
TOMORROW’S TALENTS.
TEN PHOTOGRAPHERS COMPETE IN ten
EXHIBITIONS FOR THE DISCOVERY AWARD.
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prix découverte
Grande Halle
The five nominators of the 2015 Discovery Award are photography experts dealing with emerging practices and
working as festival directors, heads of institutions and independent curators.
Krzysztof Candrowicz, director of the Fotofestiwal in Lodz, Poland and artistic director of the Triennial
of Photography, Hamburg;
Louise Clements, co-founder of the FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby, United
Kingdom;
Fannie Escoulen, independent exhibition curator;
Claire Jacquet, director of the FRAC Aquitaine;
Francesco Zanot, curator of Camera, Turin.
The Discovery Award is given to a photographer or an artist using photography whose work has recently been
discovered or deserves to be.
Every year since 2002, each of the five nominators invited by the Rencontres d’Arles has nominated two photogra‑
phers, who exhibit their work in a solo show at the Parc des Ateliers. During opening week, professionals choose
the winner, who receives the €25,000 award during a ceremony at the ancient theatre.
The LUMA Foundation has been the Discovery Award’s exclusive partner since 2002.
Artists PRESENTED BY KRZYSZTOF
CANDROWICZ
Born 1979, Lodz, Poland. Lives and works in Lodz, Poland, and Hamburg, Germany.
Krzysztof Candrowicz is a founder and director of the Fotofestiwal—International Festival of Photography in Lodz
(Poland), the Foundation of Visual Education and the Lodz Art Center. As a director of the festival, he established
in 2004 a network of 30 european festivals of photography called Photo Festival Union. Krzysztof Candrowicz is
also working as guest curator and visiting lecturer in numerous organizations, muséums, and festival in Europe and
worldwide. In January 2014, he became artistic director of the Triennal of Photography in Hamburg.
www.fotofestiwal.com
www.phototriennale.de
ANNA ORLOWSKA
Born 1986, Opole, Poland.Lives and Works in Warsaw, Poland.
If art can be a form of simulation of experience, similar to the one that can sometimes be found in dreaming, a
substitute of real experience, then Anna Orlowska’s Leakage, as well as her other works, can be seen as an attempt
to construct such forms. Although mental image usually precedes here photographic image, the author’s attention
is focused on the outside world. It is the world and human activity that work as material for these images. At the
same time, Orlowska attempt to examine the thin line between the visible and the invisible, between illusion and
reality—a line around which we are constantly balancing, seeking answers to the basic questions about the sources
of our self and our needs. For Orlowska, to see does not mean to know, so she observes and translates her surprise
and her questions into open images.
Exibition venue: Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers.
www.annaorlowska.com
SHILO GROUP
Vlad Krasnoshchok was born in 1980 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Sergiy Lebedynskyy was born in 1982 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He lives and works in Wolfsburg,
Germany, and Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Vadym Trykoz was born in 1984 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He lives in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria.
Our photography focuses on social issues in our homeland, Ukraine, primarily focusing on the legacy of its Soviet
past. Rapid change subsequent to the collapse of the Soviet Union and independence produced extreme dis‑
parities in lifestyle and culture. The majority could not adapt to the new system. They had to focus on day-to-day
survival, not moving forward. The country is now stuck between its Soviet past and an uncertain present. What will
our future be? That is the question we are trying to answer by digging into the past, unsealing people’s fears, trying
to reason them out of their absurdities and illogical behaviour.
Shilo Group
www.shilo-group.com
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Artists PRESENTED BY LOUISE
CLEMENTS
Born 1975, United Kingdom. Lives and works in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Louise Clements is artistic director of QUAD, a centre for contemporary art, film and new technologies, since 2001,
and co-founder and artistic director of FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby, UK, since 2004. Since
1998 she has initiated as independent curator many commissions, publications, mass participation, art, film and
photography exhibitions. She was guest curator at Habitat Centre and Haus Khas BlowUp (Delhi, India 2012); Dong
Gang Photography Festival (South Korea, 2013); Dali International Photography Festival (China, 2013); Noorderlicht
20/20 (Groningen, the Netherlands, 2013); Photoquai Biennale (Paris, 2015); Hamburg Phototriennale, (Germany,
2015); Venice Biennale, the Leisure Principle EM15 (2015). She regularly writes about contemporary art for books
and magazines. Editor at Large for 1000 Words, she is an international photography juror and nominator throu‑
ghout Europe, America and Asia.
www.derbyquad.co.uk
www.formatfestival.com
www.1000wordsmag.com
LISA BARNARD
Born in 1967, Kent, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Lewes, United Kingdom.
HYENAS OF THE BATTLEFIELD, MACHINES IN THE GARDEN
Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden, is a study into the ‘unholy alliance’ between the military, the
entertainment industry and technology. Further, how these alliances increasingly coalesce around modern-day
warfare. What this work hopes to reveal is the complex relationship between these apparently divergent arenas
and how the screen is pivotal to the emergence and ongoing development in the relationship between war, media
and industry as they relate to the virtual and the real. The ‘Machines in the Garden’ denote the dialectical tension
between the American pastoral ideal and machine technology. The ‘Hyenas of the Battlefield’, the technologi‑
cal-driven corporations that keep the US soldiers ‘in the loop’, but off the ground. For this is the goal—a mode of
warfare designed to fulfill the new paradigm of the US administration, where no more American soldiers die on the
battlefield.
Lisa Barnard
www.lisabarnard.co.uk
robert ZHAO RENHUI
Born 1983, Singapor. Lives and works in Singapor.
A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World
A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World seeks to document and reflect on the myriad ways in which human
action and intervention are slowly altering the natural world. The guide presents a catalogue of curious creatures
and life forms that have evolved in often unexpected ways to cope with the stresses and pressures of a changed
world. Other organisms documented in the series are the results of human intervention, mutations engineered
to serve various interests and purposes ranging from scientific research to the desire for ornamentation. Several
specimens in this project are based on fact; others are based on proposals, hypothesis and papers written by scien‑
tists. The line between these two is often an indistinct one, as scientific advances within the last half-century have
made possible what was previously believed to be impossible.
Robert Zhao Renhui
www.landarchive.org
www.criticalzoologists.org
Artists presented by Fannie
Escoulen
Born 1978, Valence, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Fannie Escoulen is a 2000 graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles and an inde‑
pendent exhibition curator. She was associate director of LE BAL, Paris, from its creation in 2007 through 2014 and
is particularly proud of curating Antoine d’Agata’s Anticorps exhibition, presented at the La Haye Fotomuseum in
2012 and at LE BAL in Paris and Forma in Milan in 2013. She is currently preparing an essay on the photographer
Anne-Marie Filaire as well as a project on Spain’s new photographic scene. She is also artistic director of the Prix
Levallois for new photographic talent worldwide.
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PAULINE FARGUE
NO DAY
How can we inhabit a landscape now that the visible is merely virtual and our bodies are tirelessly excluded? That
is the question that haunts my installations (video/sound/sculpture/performance), whereby the spectator expe‑
riences immersion in image. This seeking has its source in an unusual photographic practice. For fifteen years I have
been manipulating images, always using identical notebooks. Eight thousand pages on which photo and graphics
interpenetrate, where photography becomes a material to work, cut, fold, traverse. At once journal, archive, and
collective adventure, these notebooks bear witness to an unending work process in which the banal engenders
the bizarre, where chance alternates with ritual and partakes of an underground temporality, a perpetual present.
Pauline Fargue
Julián Barón
Born 1978 in Castellón, Spain. Lives and works in Segorbe, Spain.
Visual Regime
In order to create a world favorable to themselves, the representatives of power stimulate the
public by means of visual marketing techniques. They configure ‘seeing’ through political
hegemony, institutional execution, urban advertising, and the use of mass media; agents
infiltrating our homes. While C.E.N.S.U.R.A. is a visual variation across a political landscape,
Tauromaquia explores the mechanisms of social control in motion, whereby authoritarianism
is legitimized by use of police demonstration. Los últimos días vistos del rey is a description of
the political caste that, with almost unchanging rituals, has dominated Spain for the last forty
years.
Julián Barón
www.julianbaron.es
Artists presented by Claire
Jacquet
Born 1968, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. Lives and works in Bordeaux, France.
Exhibition curator and art critic, co-founder of Trouble magazine, Claire Jacquet has been a staff member of the
Centre National de la Photographie, then the Jeu de Paume, both in Paris. She is, since 2007, the manager of the
Aquitaine FRAC (Regional Collection of Contemporary Art), home to a rich and representative selection of photo‑
graphy from the past thirty years, frequently exhibited; displayed, in particular, at the Maramotti Foundation in 2011
on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. For 2015-2016, she is preparing a series of pro‑
jects involving Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as an extensive program around the centennial of Roland Barthes’ birth.
www.frac-aquitaine.net
DELPHINE CHANET
Inspired by photographers whose approach takes them into the heart of daily intimacy, such as Helen Levitt,
William Eggleston, Luigi Ghirri, and Sarah Moon (for her fictionalized, sublimated approach to reality), Delphine
Chanet also draws from literature (Lewis Carroll above all) or the cinema of Godard. She photographs within her
circle of intimates and beyond as well: her daughter often, her friends, and, most frequently, strangers met by
chance. Delphine Chanet seeks out and captures the intensity of their personalities, each subject’s uniqueness
which cannot be reduced to a printed image—and there lies the challenge! Within her strictly composed images,
whether studio or location shots, she reveals a sense of narrative that sets the various protagonists in relationship
to themselves and others; a desire to capture the tableau vivant of the human comedy in its most vivid fragments.
Colors, light, simplicity, and radicality are her structuring elements.
Claire Jacquet
Exibition venue: Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers.
www.delphinechanet.com
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OMAR VICTOR DIOP
Born 1980, Dakar, Senegal. Lives and works in Dakar, Senegal.
Group and individual identity and discovery are the main themes of Omar Victor Diop’s Diaspora project, a jour‑
ney in time that reveals and deepens the seldom-told story of Africans outside Africa. Artworks from the 15 th to
19th century inspired him to imagine that period as ushering in intense (and previously non-existent) interactions
between Africa and the rest of the world. This is the first time he has staged himself in his art, becoming narrator
and character. He makes references to the world of sport, especially football, as a way of showing the duality of a
life of fame and glory while also becoming ‘the other’. This paradox can be found in today’s football players and
men depicted in self-portraits.
Raquel Wilson, cultural agent
Omar Victor Diop is represented by the gallery Magnin-A, Paris.
www.omarviktor.com
Artists presented by FRANCESCO
ZANOT
Born 1979 in Milan, Italy.Lives and works in Milan and Turin, Italy.
Photography critic and curator, Francesco Zanot has been working for exhibitions and books with some among
the most renowned international photographers. He curated photobooks by artists such as Linda Fregni Nagler,
Guido Guidi, Olivo Barbieri, Takashi Homma, Charlotte Dumas, Mark Cohen, and his essays have been published
on various monographs and catalogues. His last contributions appeared on books dedicated to the works by Luigi
Ghirri (Kodachrome, Mack Books) and Domingo Milella (Steidl). He is the author of Ping Pong Conversations
(Contrasto), an extended interview with American photographer Alec Soth. Director of the Master in Photography
organized by Forma-NABA in Milan, he is associate editor of Fantom. Since 2015, he is curator at Camera—Centro
Italiano di Fotografia, Turin.
www.camera.to
PAOLA PASQUARETTA
Born 1987, Italy. Lives and works in Codroipo, Italy.
TEPHRA
In the work on show, small-scale copies of six volcanoes active in Italy are created through the crafting of blocks
of soap, a material destined to deteriorate slowly. The foam, which recalls volcanic activity, is instead modelled
into the same shapes and photographed: while the subject dissolves in a few moments, its image may last for a
theoretically endless time span. On these occasion the project has been enriched with a further level. I tried to
artificially reproduce the effect of concealment that volcanic ash has on every surface that it settles on. It is a power‑
fully democratic agent: without making any kind of distinctions, the ash covers up all colours and unifies surfaces,
making objects and landscapes all look the same. The destructive force of the volcano goes hand in hand with its
capacity to generate new shapes and images.
Paola Pasquaretta
www.works.io/paola-pasquaretta
THE COOL COUPLE
Niccolò Benetton was born in 1986 in Arzignano, Italy. He lives and works in Milan, Italy.
Simone Santilli was born in 1987 in Portogruaro, Italy. He lives and works in Milan, Italy.
A Kind of Display
A Kind of Display is a growing collection of pictures representing beards, which are confronted and processed
in order to address a spectrum of social issues, some directly political in motive, some vaguely utopian and some
chronicling specific historical events. Effectively, beard is a common character among human beings (stressed
in male individuals), the appearance or disappearance of which marks all human history and crosses different
cultures. It has always been subjected to a shifting range of cultural values, symbolizing wisdom, virility, strength,
health, and more often becoming the main feature of typical figures, like the enemy or the warrior. A Kind of Display
is conceived as an installation and a performance, in which the many objects presented are different derivations of
the photographic process, deeply connected with the possibilities and the everyday practices made available by
the developments of this mean of expression.
The Cool Couple
www.thecoolcouple.co.uk
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olympus engages in a photographic
conversation
dorothée smith / rebecca topakian
denis darzacq / swen renault
paolo woods / elsa leydiercs
A partner of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles for seven years now, Olympus continues
the dialogue between students and great contemporary photographers that it initiated two years ago. Three gra‑
duate students —Elsa Leydier, Swen Renault and Rebecca Topakian—are invited to enter into a ‘conversation’ with
three eminent photographers: Denis Darzacq, Dorothée Smith and Paolo Woods. It is a question of an exchange
of views in all senses of the term: from a body of fifteen images proposed by each of the ‘referents’, the students
in turn produce images constituting so many responses. By appropriating established photographers’ images,
the students can expand, refute or integrate them in collage creations – in short, they can in turn produce new
works. Throughout the process, regular conversations between ‘masters’ and students nurture the photographic
dialogue.
WINNER OF THE 2014 PHOTO FOLIO REVIEW
Alice Wielinga
Grande Halle
Born 1981, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
NORTH KOREA, A LIFE BETWEEN PROPAGANDA AND REALITY
April 2013. While the Western media dogs Kim Jong-Un’s steps during his missile test launches, I travel through the
inlands of North Korea. Once arrived, the images I know from my advance research correspond with the scenes
my guides proudly show me during their propaganda tour. But seeing these scenes with my own eyes, I gradually
discover that behind everything they present to me, a different reality is hidden. While I listen to my guides talking
about what invaluable contributions the greatly admired leaders made to their country, I drive through a landscape
that looks haggard and desolate. During my journey I collect propaganda material and take photographs of the
reality I encounter. This material is the basis for my multimedia project North Korea, a Life between Propaganda
and Reality. With the found propaganda images and my own photographs I compose a story that deconstructs the
North Korean propaganda.
Alice Wielinga
With support from YellowKorner.
www.alicewielinga.nl
éCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE (ARLES)
AN UNUSUAL ATTENTION
Couvent Saint- Césaire
selection of works by three 2015 graduates of the ENSP
Each year, the Rencontres d’Arles invites three student graduates from the ENSP to present their photographs.
Selected by a jury presided over by Rencontres’ director, Sam Stourdzé, the festival arranges an exhibition which
highlights the commitment of these young artists to contemporary photographic creation.
Exhibition venue: Couvent Saint-Césaire.
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alice wielinga
Harvest Time, North Korea 2013.
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Arles
2015
arles books
In 2015, the Rencontres d'Arles are
launching a new satellite event.
Arles Books will take place in over
1 000m 2 dedicated to the book, in every
shape and form.
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Cosmos-Arles Books
Magasin Électrique
New publishing practices
Cosmos-Arles Books is a Rencontres d’Arles satellite event dedicated to new publishing practices. Over the past 15
years large-scale photographic publications, self-published books, and ebooks have become essential media for
experimentation by photographers and artists. They allow photography to be rediscovered as a means of expres‑
sion and distribution, providing a rich terrain of expression for the art’s fundamentally hybrid forms.
Embodying that energy, Cosmos-Arles Books’ artistic direction has been entrusted to Olivier Cablat and Sebastian
Hau (Cosmos) and Sam Stourdzé, director of the Rencontres d’Arles.
This new space devoted to photography books will host some fifty international publishers at the Magasin Électrique
in the Parc des Ateliers. It will be open free to the public from 6 to 11 July. A force field of conviviality, communica‑
tion, and cross-fertilization, this space will also host special experiences, project presentations, lectures, pop-ups,
book signings, meetings with artists, and experimental exhibitions.
Cosmos-Arles Books also includes an outside lounge space, the nonante-neuf, a lively photography library where
people can gather, discuss, and eat.
6-11 July, Magasin Électrique, Parc des Ateliers.
Main partners: Swiss Confederation, amanasalto & IMA.
With support from Actes Sud.
www.cosmosarlesbooks.com
the 2015 book awards
Grande Halle
The €8,000 Author’s Book Award honours the best work on photography published between 1 June 2014 and 31
May 2015. It is organised with support from the Fnac.
The €8,000 History Book Award is for the best documented thematic or monographic work on photography or a
photographer published between 1 June 2014 and 31 May 2015.
The nominators of the 2015 Discovery Awards will name the winners during opening week.
Two copies of each work are received: one is deposited in the library of the École supérieure de la photographie
d’Arles, the other in a different documentary collection each year.
Since 2010, the works received have enriched the libraries of the following institutions: the Three Shadows
Photography Art Center in Beijing; the Balla Fasseké Kouyaté Conservatory of Multimedia Arts and Crafts in Mali;
the Market Photo Workshop, a photography school and gallery in Johannesburg; the international photography
festival in Valparaiso, Chile; and the Institut français in Phnom Penh.
The Author Book Award receives support from Fnac.
LUMA RENCONTREs
DUMMY BOOK AWARD
ARLES 2015
In 2015 the Rencontres d’Arles will be awarding a prize to underwrite the publication of a book. This new prize,
with a production budget of €25 000, is open to any new photographer or artist using photography entering a pre‑
viously unpublished dummy book. Special attention will be paid to experimental and innovative publication forms.
The application deadline is 31 May 2015. An international jury will select the winner. The dummy books of the win‑
ner and the runners-up will be exhibited this summer at Cosmos-Arles Books, the new satellite of the Rencontres
d’Arles dedicated to alternative publication practices.
The LUMA Foundation is the exclusive partner of this award.
Contest rules and conditions available on www.rencontres-arles.com.
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MÉJAN ASSOCIATION
TOGETHER, PHOTOGRAPHY
Chapelle saint-laurentChapelle du Méjan
The collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris now has around 21,000 works in its collections. Founded over 35 years ago, the MEP has followed the tastes and trends of
its times, revealing a survey of photography from the second half of the 20th century. The collection is based on several major series, first published in monographs, by some
of the world’s leading postwar photographers. Richard Avedon, Larry Clark, Raymond Depardon, Robert Frank, Ralph Gibson, William Klein, Josef Koudelka, Irving Penn,
Bernard Plossu and Johan van der Keuken, to name just a few, paved the way for generations of photographers. The show also features some major commissions about the
capital by the association Paris Audiovisuel and the MEP, from Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Paris à vue d’œil in 1984 to Martin Parr’s Grand Paris in 2014. Gifts account for nearly a
third of the collection.
Curators: Jean-Luc Monterosso and Jean-Paul Capitani,
with the collaboration of Benoît Rivero (Actes Sud), Pascal Hoël and Frédérique Dolivet (MEP).
Publication : Une collection. Maison européenne de la photographie, Actes Sud, 2015.
Exhibition venue: Chapelle du Méjan and Chapelle Saint-Laurent – le Capitole.
Musée Réattu
daring photography
Musée réattu
FIFTY YEARS OF AVANT-GARDE COLLECTION IN ARLES
In 1965, the birth of the first public photography collection in a French fine art museum took place in Arles at the
Musée Réattu. Jean-Maurice Rouquette, curator, and Lucien Clergue, photographer, dared to launch an avantgarde project which would lead to the Rencontres d’Arles festival, the École Nationale de Photographie (ENSP)
and also to the widespread recognition of photography as an art form in France. The 2015 exhibition celebrates
the progress made since then and takes us back to the beginnings of this unique collection’s remarkable history
that now has 5000 prints. The ever-increasing expansion of this department has consumed the museum’s identity
and calls for an appraisal through a selection of 200 photographs which express the state of a mutating art in an
exhibition driven by a fundamental question: What does photography bring to art?
Pascale Picard, directrice du musée Réattu
Exhibition curator: Pascale Picard, assisted by Andy Neyrotti.
Exhibition produced by the City of Arles.
An exhibition catalogue will be published in July 2015 by Silvana Editoriale Milan.
Exhibition venue: Musée Réattu.
IMAGES/LANDSCAPES/SHORES
Hôtel de Grille
COLLECTION FROM THE CONSERVATOIRE DU LITTORAL
The Conservatoire du Littoral, a French public organisation dedicated to the protection of natural areas on coasts
and lakeshores, celebrated its 40th anniversary on 10 July 2015, during the Rencontres d’Arles. This was a lucky
coincidence: the Conservatoire has had a fruitful relationship with photography for 30 years. The latest acquisi‑
tions of the Conservatoire du Littoral also include large prints by Massimo Vitali. For the first time, the beaches are
empty! Edith Roux gives us her polyptychs of the corniche des Maures, from land to sea, photographed in 2014,
and Olivier Mériel presents an unprecedented series of twilight images of the D-Day beaches in Normandy. In
addition to these four artists, a selection from the thousand or so original prints by 30 French and foreign photogra‑
phers that the Conservatoire has gradually added to its collection is projected to show its richness and diversity.
Line Lavesque
Exhibition curator: Line Lavesque.
Screening venue: Hôtel de Grille.
éCOLE NATIONALE SUPéRIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE (ARLES)
IT’S SUNNY, I’M GOING OUT Hôtel de Grille
galerie arena
In the context of the third edition of the partnership between the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) and
the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP), four, second-year ENSP students – Alfredo Coloma,
Apolline Lamoril, Agathe Mouchès and Pauline Wallerich – cast their curator gaze on the CNAP’s photographic
collections. Their exhibition, It’s Sunny, I’m Going Out, whose title is inspired by Pierre Reimer and his book of
photographs Il fait beau, je sors (It’s Sunny, I’m Going Out), results from this experience and provides visitors to
the Galerie Arena with an interpretation of photography as a paradox, upheaval or even a toppling of reality.
Exhibition coproduced by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles.
Exhibition venue: Galerie Arena.
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ART RESEARCHES #4
ENSP
This fourth edition of The Search for Art, carried out in partnership with the Institut National de la Santé et de la
Recherche Médicale (INSERM) and the ENSP, fits within the thinking developed by the school around medical
operation photography, one of the main focuses of the newly created research unit created within the institution.
This year, during their residencies at the INSERM laboratories, Florian da Silva, Célia Honoré, Margot Laurens
and Vincent Marcq, were able to discover and explore imaging equipment linked to computer technology and
digital sciences. Each of their works question this image taken as a ‘procedure’, ‘operation’ or ‘system’ and how
said image is perceived, making us become aware of the strange paradox of no longer being able to decode and
interpret these images of the body, which is and remains surprisingly unknown to us.
Project coordinators: Caroline Bernard, artist and teacher at the ENSP, and Yannick Vernet, in charge of digital projects at the ENSP.
Exhibition coproduced by the ENSP and the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale.
Exhibition venue: Galerie du Haut at the ENSP.
Raymond Hains, photographe
Born 1926, Saint-Brieuc, France. Died in 2005, Paris, France.
Raymond Hains is one of the most noteworthy figures in the history of contemporary art. Although he signed the
Constitutive Declaration of New Realism in Yves Klein’s studio in October 1960, his work defies classification. His
slashed posters and super-sized matchboxes are among his best-known works, but in the 1940s he was interested
in photography. This show features approximately 30 photographs he took during his travels. To see them, visitors
must wander around Arles’ La Roquette quarter and into the nine businesses participating in this offbeat show,
including a mouth-watering caterer, a very good bistro, an appetising greengrocer, a bookshop/tearoom, an indis‑
pensable pharmacy, a family-run minimart and a passionate florist’s shop. Hains would have loved the idea of once
again being where you least expect him.
Cyrille Putman
Exhibition curator: Cyrille Putman.
Nine businesses in Arles host the show (Rue des Porcelet, Place Antonelle, Rue de la République, Place Paul Doumer.
Works by the artist will also be displayed on the backs of Taco & Co. bicycles.
VINCENT FERRANÉ
commanderie sainte-luce
Born 1974, Créteil, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
BIENVENUE
In 2014 Vincent Ferrané looked at a city and its shopping centre. He was aware of two spatio-temporal settings,
ambivalent meeting grounds of the past and the present, of human, anthropological, and architectural history. In
this constant fluctuation between historical and specific sites (from the château to the city) and the ‘nowheres of
supermodernity’, he offers us a route, a way of proceeding, through the character of Armelle, the central character
of a future film. Vincent Ferrané presents us with a true modern and poetic fable through this timeless mental jour‑
ney among images tinged with strangeness, symbols, and melancholy.
Exhibition curator: Fannie Escoulen.
Vincent Ferrané’s photographic work was produced with the collaboration of Armelle Roncin.
This project was sponsored by Mercialys and was produced in Angers and in the Espace Anjou mall.
Exhibition venue: Commanderie Sainte-Luce.
www.bienvenue-book.com
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vincent ferrané
Image from Welcome series, 2014.
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EVENINGS AT THE THÉÂTRE ANTIQUE
Full program will be released at the beginning of June on rencontres-arles.com.
Unique in the world, the evening screenings present the work of photographers or photography specialists to an
audience of up to 2,500 people. Each two-part evening is a genuine spectacle beneath the stars specifically desi‑
gned for the stunning Théâtre Antique.
tuesday 7 july, 10PM, théâtre Antique
The first part of the evening is in French and English, the second in English.
Part one
THE AUTHOR’S BOOK AND HISTORY BOOK AWARDS
The €8,000 Author’s Book Award honours the best work on photography published between 1 June 2014 and 31
May 2015. The €8,000 History Book Award is for the best documented thematic or monographic work on photo‑
graphy or a photographer published between 1 June 2014 and 31 May 2015.
With support from Fnac for the Author Book Award.
THE 2015 LEICA-OSKAR-BARNACK AWARD & LEICA NEWCOMER AWARD
Since 1979, the Leica Camera Group has been holding a renowned photographic competition honouring Oskar
Barnack (1879-1936), the inventor of the Leica and the father of photojournalism. The Leica Oskar Barnack Award
is awarded to a photographer whose powers of observation capture and express the relationship between man
and the environment in the most graphic form. The Leica Camera Group also organises the Leica Oskar Barnack
Newcomer Award, which is open to all photographers aged 25 and under.
part two
MARTIN PARR, my life in pictures
mmm, MATTHIEU CHEDID meets MARTIN PARR
wednesday 8 july, 10PM, théâtre Antique
The first part of the evening is in French and English, the second in French.
part one
2015 HCB AWARD
The recipient of the HCB Award is announced at the award ceremony for this prize, whose objective is to allow a
photographer to carry out a project he would otherwise be unable to do without this financial support. The award
is intended for an emerging photographer who has already completed a significant body of work and whose
approach is close to that of documentary.
LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD arles 2015
In partnership with the LUMA Foundation, the Rencontres d’Arles offers a new award for assistance in publishing
a dummy book. Endowed with a €25,000 production budget, the prize is open to any photographer or emerging
artist using photography who submits a dummy book that has never been published. Experimental, innovative
editorial forms will receive special attention.
With the exclusive support from LUMA Foundation.
THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES 2015 DISCOVERY AWARD
The five nominators introduce the 10 artists nominated in 2015:
Krzysztof Candrowicz introduces Anna Orlowska and Shilo Group;
Louise Clements introduces Lisa Barnard and Robert Zhao Renhui;
Fannie Escoulen introduces Pauline Fargue and Julián Barón;
Claire Jacquet introduces Delphine Chanet and Omar Victor Diop;
Francesco Zanot introduces Paola Pasquaretta and The Cool Couple.
The Discovery Award is given to a photographer or an artist using photography whose work has recently been
discovered or deserves to be.
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part two
Chère Humaine (Dear Human / Human Flesh)
Photographic film by Stéphane Breton with photographs by Michael Ackerman, Lorenzo Castore, Arja Hyytiäinen,
and Juan Manuel Castro Prieto / Agence Vu.
Chère Humaine is a short film made out of analog photographs. A series, thus, of still images, a sort of opaque and
eerie wandering through the soul and the streets. It’s about a woman who is not there and when she is there is often
supine, passive; people one meets without noticing; evanescent scenes, all held together by an inner monologue
and scraps of overhead dialogue. So: a photographic film that is not a film about photography – although it is made
from photographs that I love deeply and which belong to the good old tradition of ‘grainy, shaky, blurry’, while at
the same time surpassing it – but a film that puts photos in the first row, and not just any photos.
Stéphane Breton
Stéphane Breton’s film will have its world premiere at Arles.
Production: ARTE, La Lucarne, Luciano Rigolini
Quark productions, Patrick Winocour and Juliette Guigon.
With support from ARTE.
friday 10 july, 10PM, théâtre AntiquE
The first part of the evening is in English, the second in French.
part one
prix pictet
Disorder
Founded in 2008 by the leading Swiss private bank, Pictet, the Prix Pictet is the world’s most prestigious prize in
photography and sustainability. The Prix Pictet adopts a different theme for each new cycle. The first five were
Water (winner: Benoît Aquin), Earth (winner: Nadav Kander), Growth (winner: Mitch Epstein), Power (winner: Luc
Delahaye), Consumption (winner: Michael Schmidt). The theme of the sixth Prix Pictet is Disorder; Kofi Annan
(Honorary President) will announce the winner at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in November 2015.
At the same time, teNeues will publish Disorder, the book of the sixth Prix Pictet. Following the announcement in
Paris the exhibition of work by the shortlisted artists will embark on an intensive twelve months world tour.
The Shortlist for Prix Pictet Disorder will have its world premiere at a special evening screening featuring each of
the shortlisted photographers’ portfolios.
THE 22 nd EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK AWARD
Five European photography publishers—Editorial Blume (Spain), Actes Sud (France), Dewi Lewis Publishing (the
United Kingdom), Peliti Associati (Italy) and Kehrer Verlag (Germany)—team up for a publishing project.
part two
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
A lecture/performance by Jacques Attali
As a prelude to a vertiginous exhibition opening at the Louvre in September 2015, Jacques Attali will give an unpre‑
cedented lecture/performance based on his essay A Brief History of the Future. Drawing lessons from the past, he
shows us what tomorrow’s world might look like. The musician Yaron Herman will accompany him on stage, and his
words will be illustrated by projected images from a wide range of sources, including archives, animation, cinema
and video games, to foster a dialogue beckoning us to travel back in time, where fiction and reality often become
one.
Film editor: Laurent Perreau.
Original music: Yaron Herman and Jean-Pierre Taïeb.
In partnership with the Louvre. Jacques Attali’s lecture/performance will be repeated at the Louvre auditorium in autumn 2015
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Saturday 11 July, 10PM, théâtre Antique
The evening is in French. With translation provided.
part one
parmigiani fleurier presents THE Prix Elysée
Last year, Parmigiani Fleurier and the Musée de l’Elysée joined forces to launch the Prix Elysée, confirming the
watchmaker’s long-term commitment to the museum and reaffirming its support for culture, beyond borders and
in all its forms. Parmigiani Fleurier has become a partner of the Prix Elysée, which offers financial help and the
museum’s assistance in the production of new works. In June 2015, the first winner of the Prix Elysée will receive
funding to carry out an unprecedented project and produce a book about its genesis.
THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES 2015 DISCOVERY AWARD
Announcement of the winner, who receives €25,000.
part two
IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS: A FILM BY EDWARD S. CURTIS, 1914
Film-concert by Rodolphe Burger
This recently restored work on the edges of ethnographic and documentary cinema is a Native American version of
Romeo and Juliet. Motana falls in love with the daughter of a rival tribe’s chief, who is betrothed to an evil sorcerer.
Curtis chose this tragic scenario to break with clichés about Amerindians.
Rodolphe Burger’s score based on rock and Native American music makes the hallucinating dance of these ghosts
who have crossed time even more beautiful.
the night of the year
Thursday 9 July, 9pm—5 am, Papeteries Étienne
The format of opening week’s unmissable festive event has changed. This year, visitors can take a walk to see the
festival’s favourite works by artists and photographers as well as carte blanche exhibitions by institutions.
Organised in collaboration with the Nuit de la Roquette, the 2015 Night of the Year is a long walk through the
Roquette quarter to the Papeteries Étienne paper mill, open to the public for the first time.
Free admission.
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MEETINGS / CONFERENCES / DEBATES
Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 July, 10AM−5PM, Théâtre d’Arles
Barthes is back
supervised by Bernard Comment
Conversations, performances, screenings
In partnership with the Institut français.
Two days of meetings, screenings, conversations, lectures and performances with artists and researchers to dis‑
cuss, think about and create works based on the relationship between Roland Barthes (1915-1980) and photogra‑
phy to mark the centennial of his birth.
Each half-day workshop is a carte blanche where curators, Chantal Thomas, Rodolphe Burger, Bernard Comment
and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, invite authors, artists, researchers and filmmakers to question, explain and discuss Barthes’
complex relationship with photography and the legacy of his thought today. They are free to express themselves
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however they like: conversations, performances, meetings, workshops, screenings, etc.
‘Roland Barthes revolutionised our approach to photography, especially with his book Camera Lucida, which has
become the touchstone for all contemporary writing about the image. Yet, paradoxically, Barthes did not write well
about photography. He sought a phantasmagorical ‘photography without the photographer’, a sort of modern-day
version of ‘acheiropoietos’ images (‘not made by man’). Camera Lucida has become a work of reference, some‑
times a compass, but the development, in the book’s second part, of a fiction of resurrection based on the photo‑
graph of the child mother in a winter garden is what releases a reverie on the image as the place of the ‘this was’
and even more of the ‘this is’, where the vanished loved one is miraculously found, like Ulysses finds his mother’s
ghost in the Nekuia.’ Bernard Comment
To contribute to this celebration, the Institut français has joined forces with the Rencontres d’Arles to present the
project ‘Barthes/Vision’, an original digital experience proposed to Web surfers around the world. Conceived as
a vast collection of images on an international scale and via social networks, ‘Barthes/Vision’ invites people to link
Barthes’ words and make the ‘empire of signs’ of today resonate with Barthes’ pioneering analysis, by bringing
together, over a period of months, a kaleidoscope of images from all corners of the globe.
www.barthes.vision
www.institutfrancais.com
Free admission.
Organised by Bernard Comment, author of Roland Barthes, vers le neutre, éditions Christian Bourgois, 1991.
With support from Institut français, ARTE and LUMA Foundation.
Friday, 10 July, 1:30PM−6:30PM, ENSP
The Collaborative Economy: Issues for Photographers
Three roundtables to help photographers make the most of the opportunities presented by the new collaborative
economy while avoiding its inevitable risks and pitfalls. At the first roundtable, the new practices of the collabora‑
tive economy in photography will be presented. More and more, photography is used in applications as diverse
as video games, e-commerce, and by collectors via dedicated archive consultation sites: the second roundtable
will address new uses of photography that confirm its development into, as Le Monde put it, a ‘new universal para‑
language’. The third roundtable will examine new revenue sources for photographers in an age of native digital
formats and the collaborative economy, as well as the role of metadata.
Organised by Images&Digital.
6-12 JULY
OLYMPUS ENCOUNTERS
34, rue du Docteur Fanton
During the opening week, every mornings and every evenings, conferences and debates take place in 34 rue du
Docteur Fanton, inviting photographers and professionals present at the festival to talk about their work or about
issues raised by the exhibited images.
Supervised by Natacha Wolinski and Damien Sausset.
With support from Olympus.
Free admission.
exhibition tours
During the opening week, the exhibited photographers present their work to festivalgoers. From July 13 to
September 20, a team of photographer-liaison staff offer daily guided tours through the festival’s various exhibition
sites.
book signings
Book signings by many of the photographers participating in the Rencontres d’Arles are held at rue du Docteur
Fanton throughout the opening week.
photo folio review
The Photo Folio Review, inaugurated in 2006, offers portfolio review in Arles during the opening week of the festi‑
val. The event, which is open with advance registration, is addressed to professional photographers, photography
school students, and experienced amateur photographers. In 2014, we had the pleasure of welcoming 106 inter‑
national experts and organizing sessions for 236 photographers from 24 countries.
The reviews are performed by international experts from the world of photography: publishers, exhibition curators,
museum directors, agency heads, gallery owners, collectors, critics, print media art directors, etc.These one-onone discussions with selected experts give participants the privilege of a constructive and well-adapted exami‑
nation of their individual photographic achievements, as well as invaluable advice. Some contacts involve the
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possibility of exhibition, acquisition, and/or publication. Finally, each year the experts vote for their favorite portfo‑
lio and choose a winner whose work is exhibited the following year among the official selections of the Rencontres
d’Arles. The winner of Photo Folio Review 2014 was Alice Wielinga.
In 2015, the work of the five finalists, including the winner, will be presented in a group publication coproduced by
the Rencontres d’Arles and YellowKorner. The work of the 2015 winner will be exhibited in the official selection of
Rencontres d’Arles 2016.
With support from YellowKorner.
PHOTOGRAPHY AUCTION
For the third consecutive year, the Yann Le Mouël auction house, in association with the Galerie Lumière des
Roses (founded and directed by Marion and Philippe Jacquier), invites photography lovers to an auction at
34 rue du Docteur Fanton. In the shade of the plane trees and in a festive atmosphere, photography fans and
collectors can expect to unearth some rare gems from a delightful and varied selection, where the world’s great
photographers feature alongside anonymous artists.
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Arles
2015
LES RENCONTRES
DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
NIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHy
JuLy 7TH — 11TH
MinistÈre de la culture et de la coMMunication
direction rÉgionale des aFFaires culturelles Paca
MinistÈre de l’Éducation nationale,
de l’enseigneMent suPÉrieur et de la recherche
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conseil dÉParteMental des Bouches-du-rhÔne
Ville d’arles
PhotograPhy toon Michiels,
Holiday Motel, las Vegas, neVada, 1979
design aBM studio
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Arles
2015
eDUCATION
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training
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PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS
Exchanges between photography professionals and practitioners have been a constant feature of the festival
since the Rencontres d’Arles first began. For more than forty years, the photography workshops organised by the
Rencontres have reflected this desire to bring together professional and amateur photographers, allowing them to
explore a personal creative approach and photography’s aesthetic, ethical and technological factors. These works‑
hops are open to amateurs and professionals, and fit within continuing education (DIF, CIF, Afdas) guidelines.
Spring 2015: 13 April-2 May
The themes offered are hugely varied: portrait photography, reportage, personal experience, narrative, lighting,
creating a personal notebook… Arles provides a perfect setting for work and an ideal terrain for many photogra‑
phers, who take advantage of the exceptional Camargue light and landscapes during this season to realise a per‑
sonal series over a period of days, by alternating shooting sessions with image analysis.
Workshops run for four or five days.
13-17 April
LJUBISA DANILOVIC / The personal gaze for a series
GRÉGOIRE KORGANOW / Photographic writing
20-24 April
ANTOINE LE GRAND / The portrait: Lighting and balance
LAURENCE LEBLANC / Going beyond the surface of things
27 April -2 May
ÉRIC BOUVET / Reportage: humanity and its territories
CLAUDINE DOURY / Between fiction and reality
ANTOINE D’AGATA / The personal diary: at the boundaries of the photographic act
Summer 2015: 6 July-23 August
A jam-packed programme will spread out across the summer, bringing together great photographers, many of
whom have had their work exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles in the past. All are exceptional photographers and
teachers, and several among them who attended the festival in past years do us the honour of returning this sum‑
mer. For the second consecutive year, 'A session with' workshops, lasting a day and a half, will allow participants
to work alongside the world's great professionals, studying notions related to photography, from setting up shots
through to final editing. Consistent with our desire to allow everyone, be they practitioners or not, the possibility
of learning more about photography, specific training will enable participants to become familiar with leading a
Pause-Photo-Prose game, and a workshop devised especially for younger participants (6-12 years old) will take
place in August.
6-10 July
Revealing photography / An educational Pause-Photo-Prose game (6 July, 1 day)
SYLVIE HUGUES / Learning how to focus and develop a personal photographic approach (7-8 July, 2 days)
A session with VEE SPEERS (8-9 July, 1 and a half days)
A session with ÉLINA BROTHERUS (9-10 July, 1 and a half days)
13-17 July
PAOLO WOODS / Telling a story
ISABEL MUÑOZ / A choreography of the moment
ANTOINE D’AGATA / The personal diary: at the boundaries of the photographic act
CHRISTIAN CAUJOLLE / Editing, the meaning of choices
20-25 July
KLAVDIJ SLUBAN / A sensitive approach to reportage photography
DARCY PADILLA / The documentary project: a story in images
DENIS DARZACQ / The language of the body
JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART / Photographic immersion
27-31 July
PHILIPPE GUIONIE / Documentary photography: from the idea to the medium
FRANÇOISE HUGUIER / The photographic series
OLIVIER METZGER / The portrait: light and context
LAURENT MONLAÜ / Mediterranean itineraries
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3-7 August
AMBROISE TÉZENAS / Documentary landscape: the passage of time
LUDOVIC CARÈME / The portrait: another myself
Other workshops will be announced soon.
10-15 August
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BÉCHET / The city and beyond: territories for a gaze
CHARLES FRÉGER / The photographic portrait
PAULO NOZOLINO / Down to the bone
CLAUDINE DOURY / Between fiction and reality
18-21 August
JÉRÔME BONNET / The portrait: the duration of an encounter
FLORENT DÉMARCHEZ / Photographic exploration: light and creativity
GRÉGOIRE KORGANOW / Find the distance
23-25 August
Discovering photography – for younger participants
Other workshops will be announced soon.
Throughout the year
Two- or three-day workshops allow amateur photographers, as well as beginners, to discover photography and
to be immersed in the photographic process, thereby stimulating participants’ critical gaze. These photo wee‑
kends, supervised by professional photographers with finely honed teaching skills and who have graduated from
major photography or art schools, allow the basics of photographic practices to be consolidated through diverse
approaches: Reportage: the great pilgrimage of the Gypsies; Urban itineraries; Looking at the city; Mastering light;
Portrait: from the encounter to the personal series; Finding one's own photographic sensibility...
Photographers: Romain Boutillier, Florent Demarchez, Yann Linsart, Delphine Manjard and Nicolas Havette.
Contact: Fabrice Courthial and Loïc Colomb / [email protected] / +33 (0)4 90 96 76 06
http://www.rencontres-arles.com/workshops
PARTICIPANTS GALLERY
This space brings together the work produced by participants of the Rencontres d'Arles Photographic Workshops.
The projects presented have been developed with input from renowned professionals, the workshop supervisors
who, during a few days, share their experience and accompany each participant in the development of his/her
personal photographic practice. So many approaches, so many singular gazes brought to bear on Arles and its
environs during spring and summer.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/108007479@N08/sets/
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP EVENINGS
34, rue du Docteur Fanton
Evening presentations by workshop supervisors
Once a week, from 15 July to 19 August, the Rencontres d’Arles organises presentations-encounters.
These open-air evenings bring together the photographers who supervise the various workshops staged each
week. These special moments allow spectators to discover the photographers’ work via slide presentations and to
question the artists about their approach, background and vision of photography in a convivial atmosphere, right
in the heart of Arles.
Free admission subject to availability.
Wednesday 15 July, from 10PM onwards
PAOLO WOODS / ISABEL MUÑOZ / ANTOINE D’AGATA / CHRISTIAN CAUJOLLE
KLAVDIJ SLUBAN / DARCY PADILLA / DENIS DARZACQ / JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART
PHILIPPE GUIONIE / FRANÇOISE HUGUIER / OLIVIER METZGER / LAURENT MONLAÜ
Wednesday 05 August, from 10PM onwards
AMBROISE TÉZENAS / LUDOVIC CARÈME (other guests will soon be announced)
CLAUDINE DOURY / JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BÉCHET / PAULO NOZOLINO / CHARLES FRÉGER
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JÉRÔME BONNET / FLORENT DÉMARCHEZ
Exhibition of works by workshop participants
Each workshop ends with the presentation of works produced by the workshop participants during the previous
week. It is an opportunity to share this unique experience with them, and to discover singular gazes focused on the
city of Arles and its environs.
Free admission.
Friday 17 July, from 7PM onwards
Saturday 25 July, from 7PM onwards
Friday 31 July, from 7PM onwards
Friday 7 August, from 7PM onwards
Saturday 15 August, from 7PM onwards
Friday 21 August, from 7PM onwards
CLICKS AND CLASSES
Look, everything changes!
Clicks and Classes is a nationwide programme overseen by Canopé, a resources network of the Ministry of
National Education, whose goal is to increase young people's awareness of photography.
For the 12th edition, 19 photographers and 20 classes, from kindergarten right through to the higher education
level, produced photographs inspired by the theme 'Look, everything changes!' during educational workshops.
Accompanied by a photographer or artist working in a different medium, the students familiarised themselves with
photography and expanded their knowledge of it.
The exhibited images were conceived in highly diverse places and contexts, thereby making the multiple modes
of appropriation and interpretation of the 'Look, everything changes!' theme visible. Each group questioned and
implemented these three words by playing with the group's own environment, identity and personality.
The diversity of the school setting is hence shown, bringing together different ages, origins and territories for a
project where imagination and creativity are given full reign and permit connections to be established.
Photographers participating in the project: Lolita Lejeune, Claudia Imbert, Christelle Geronimi, Guillaume
Onimus, Marie Hudelot, Laure Maugeais, Isabelle Leprince, Lucie Moraillon, Antoine Boureau, Jean Popincourt,
Franck Leblanc, David Samblanet, Eric Sinatora, Hermine Bourgadier, Richard Louvet, Marc Loyon, Caroline
Pandelé, Hélène Olive and Maurice Cuquel.
This project is carried out in schools in the following cities and regions: Amiens, Corse, Créteil, Dijon,
Grenoble, Lyon, Martinique, Montpellier, Paris, Rennes, and Toulouse.
And in in collaboration with 19 different cultural institutions and groups: Diaphane; the Centre Méditerranéen
de la Photographie; Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France; Médiathèque Communale de Vignacourt; Musée
Nicéphore-Niépce; Galerie Phot'œil; Domaine de Fonds-Jacques; Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris;
Centre Méditerranéen de l’Image; Art Dreams; PHAKT – Centre Colombier; Les 198 Os; Image Temps; Galerie
l’Aparté; Bibliothèque Municipale de Mende; Serres Lez’Arts; L’Atelier Blanc, Centre Méditerranéen de l’Image
GRAPh; Asie 47.
Exhibition venue: Atelier de la Formation, Parc des Ateliers.
EDUCATIONAL DOMAIN
To make visible, learning to look
For many years, the Rencontres d’Arles has accomplished its education in the visual image mission with thousands
of students of all ages. Each it year, it offers hundreds of professionals the possibility of training to become supervi‑
sors of photography interpreting sessions, and through its innovative workshops and programmes, contributes to
the thinking concerning images and their place in the contemporary world.
All of these activities respond to a double expectation: to make visible rich and varied images, reflected by the
festival’s programming, which has always been alert to creation and the issues of the contemporary world; learning
to look, which is to say questioning the meaning of images, envisaging them in their complexity and putting them
back in a context, a series, an artist’s approach.
In other words, the goal is to contribute to the development of autonomous, neutral and critical gazes: it is an indi‑
vidual and collective matter, in a world where the consumption and production of images is now incessant.
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OUTREACH, WORKSHOPS
For more than ten years, the Rencontres has accompanied visitors in their discovery of works of art and also in
developing their own photographic practice.
3-17 September
BACK TO SCHOOL IN IMAGES
12th edition
Back to School in Images takes place in September. During this programme, around 300 classes, from kindergarten
to the Masters level, supervised by twenty-five, specifically trained outreach staff, come and spend a day in Arles.
Flexible programmes are devised, which not only include guided visits to several exhibitions, but also offer the
choice between a range of activities such as introductory photography workshops, practical workshops, a scree‑
ning or a period set aside for discovering the heritage of Arles.
Raising awareness about photography and contemporary art, developing the ability to analyse a work of art, encou‑
raging curiosity, a critical mind and artistic creativity are all an integral part of this project. Made possible through
the support of numerous partners, in 2014 Back to School in Images, which is entirely free of charge, welcomed
9,060 students and 700 teachers from nine different schools.
Participation free of charge, prior registration required.
Partners: Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, Canopé network, Ministry of Culture and Communication (DGCA/DEDAC, Regional
Department of Cultural Affairs PACA), Ministry of the Town, Youth and Sports (Youth Experimentation Fund, INJEP), Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional
Council, Bouches-du-Rhône General Council, City of Arles, educational authorities of Aix-Marseille, Montpellier and Nice, Total Foundation.
Local government support enables student transport costs to be partially or fully funded.
A network of cultural institutions contributes to the programme by providing activities for participants: École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles,
Musée Réattu, Musée Départemental Arles Antique, Museon Arlaten, architecture, town planning and environmental councils of the Bouches-du-Rhône, Gard and
Hérault, Regional Nature Park of the Camargue, City of Arles heritage department, Abbaye de Montmajour-Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Château d’Avignon,
Fondation Vincent Van-Gogh, Festival de Marseille.
Rentrée en Images
HIGH SCHOOL PHOTO COMPETITION
For the sixth consecutive year, the Rencontres d’Arles is a partner of a secondary school student photography com‑
petition organised by L’Étudiant. This competition’s goal is to make students aware of photographic practices and
all issues associated with the use of images. This year, six themes have been chosen, one for each month between
November and April: Dreaming, Being Indignant, Resonating, Leaving, Thinking and Loving Each Other.
Each month, two winners are chosen, one by a professional photographer from Tendance Floue, a collective of
thirteen photographers, the other by an internet vote. A jury then gets together in July, during the Rencontres, to
vote for the year’s four winners.
Organisers: L’Étudiant, Olympus, Maison du Geste et de l’Image, Rencontres d’Arles, Éditions Thierry Magnier, Images Magazine, Tendance Floue.
More information can be found on the competition’s blog: http://blog.letudiant.fr/concours-photo-de-letudiant-2015
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
17, 18 and 19 September 2015
NATIONAL SEMINAR
Living Environment(s): Photography, Urban Space and Architecture
Each year, the national seminar brings together 300 teachers and teaching specialists to reflect upon photographic
practices and their relation to younger people. Several days of conferences, debates and guided tours through the
Rencontres d’Arles’ exhibitions are organised around a specific topic.
Photography and photographers have always explored our environment by proposing accounts, fictions and
reconstructions of territories and their components, of which architecture has long been a major element. However,
a certain contradiction or possible false evidence are central to the dialogue maintained by architecture and pho‑
tography, particularly between documentation and creation. Hence, we willingly conceive that photographers
above all exercise their own sensibilities, giving free reign to their imaginations and to an accepted subjectivity.
We can also imagine that architects have always wanted to use photography to document, establish ‘objective’
accounts of their works and record a memory of the building process.
In addition, other gazes, other gestures and other images are expressed, apart from those of the architects and
photographers, because once architectural space is transformed into inhabited places, it incorporates a social
dimension. It also becomes a territory for communication, creation and the site of a process of appropriation by
the inhabitants of these territories. Questions are asked about the sharing of spaces and about living together,
about the strength or weakness of the collective and the individual, and about the various practices of the city and
its edifices.
During this seminar, an attempt will be made to disentangle the contradictions of these exchanges between archi‑
tecture and photography. The images and subjective representations proposed by inhabitants of this living envi‑
ronment which is urban space will be explored. And now, thanks to webcams and other cameras, that the city itself
produces images day and night, we will also delve into how a number of artists or citizens take possession of these
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images. Architects, town planners and artists will express and compare their points of view and their approaches;
the Rencontres d’Arles’ exhibitions will nourish these ruminations; last but not least, à la carte workshops will allow
us to exchange and share our professional practices.
Participation free of charge, prior registration required – [email protected]
The national seminar is organised by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, (DGESCO and IGEN), Ministry of Culture and
Communication, Canopé network, National Youth and Popular Education Institute supervised by the Ministry of Youth, Education League, Maison du Geste et de
l’Image, École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d'Arles and the Rencontres d'Arles.
Séminaire national
CUSTOMISED TRAINING
Les Rencontres d’Arles sont un centre agréé de formation continue. Chaque année, des formations sont propo
The Rencontres d’Arles is an approved vocational training centre. Each year, training is offered to students and
professionals so as to explore more deeply or experiment with visual image outreach through educational tools
conceived by the Rencontres d’Arles.
For Back to School in Images, twenty-five outreach staff are trained each year by photographer-facilitators who
alternate theory, role-play and simulated situations. In 2014, thirty-six photographer participants, teachers, libra‑
rians and professional facilitators also followed our professional training programme ‘Tools and Tips for Enabling
Everyone to Discover Photography’. In 2014, as part of the Academic Training Plan, four training programmes
were offered to ninety teachers and cultural actors in the PACA region.
The Rencontres d’Arles offers made-to-measure training upon request to community groups, cultural organisa‑
tions and associations.
For more information: [email protected].
EXPERIMENTATIONS
Educational innovation has long been central to the Rencontres’ thinking. Accompanied from 2010 to 2013 by the
Youth Experimentation Fund (Ministry of the Town, Youth and Sport) in the conception of a novel learning tool, the
Pause-Photo-Prose game, the Rencontres has made an experimental approach central to its daily operations. A
third of its educational service’s activities is now continuously devoted to the development of new tools.
PAUSE-PHOTO-PROSE
The Pause-Photo-Prose game has been conceived by the Rencontres d'Arles as an initiation tool for interpreting
and understanding photography. Based on a dynamic that is naturally created during each round, the concept
allows three independent activities to be put into practice: observing, analysing and sharing points of view.
This team-building game poses questions about the origins of photographs, their many meanings and uses.
Associating words with photography allows players to stray from the simple ‘I like it/I don’t like it’ path and encou‑
rages an autonomy of the gaze, sharpens the eye of the ordinary person and of the image consumer, and helps
shape a personal point of view which can be shared with others.
The Rencontres d'Arles' education team has adapted the game to suit children aged from 6 to 12 years old.
Instructions and game material have been gathered into a booklet freely available on the Rencontres d’Arles web‑
site and upon request.
The training workshop 'Discovering photography' allows participants to become familiar with the game PausePhoto-Prose and will take place in Arles, on the 6th July (mandatory pre-registration through the workshops
departments).
The Pause-Photo-Prose game was developed thanks to the Youth Experimentation Fund (Ministry of the Town, Youth and Sports) and Fondation Total.
Pause Photo Prose
L’ATELIER DES PHOTOGRAPHES (The Photographers’ Workshop)
A new educational tool.
A DIGITAL PLATFORM DEDICATED TO EDUCATION IN THE VISUAL IMAGE
With twelve years of education experience in raising visual awareness and as part of French government activities
supporting artistic and cultural education, the Rencontres d’Arles is launching a new tool dedicated to teachers,
teaching specialists, facilitators, outreach personnel, social workers and librarians wishing to supervise photogra‑
phy education sessions.
Sharing the experience of a festival with a broad audience
This resource platform, free and available to everyone, conceived by visual image professionals and actors in
the field, and tested by hundreds of young people, offers a concrete and playful approach to photography. The
challenge consists of accompanying younger people as they interpret what they see, essential in our society
overflowing with images. Thanks to our partners, the Rencontres d’Arles’ experience, its knowledge of younger
audiences and to the many meetings and the dialogue with training and activities personnel, this project has come
about and been made available to everyone.
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Entering the worlds of twenty photographers to better understand and be inspired
Through a selection of twenty photographs, the platform allows users to discover the world of the Rencontres
and to be in direct contact with photographers from all walks of life, who offer us their gaze: interviews, analysis,
notions, links... The platform accompanies users in their approach to learning about contemporary photography.
Preparing and supervising workshops (from children, 6 years old and up, to adults)
Several workshop outlines are proposed for each type of photography with a combination of disciplines: writing,
the plastic arts, photographic practice, improvisation, interpretation. A chart allows the user/supervisor to prepare
in advance nearly eighty workshops. It offers the workshop supervisor a concrete proposal, a general framework
for reflection but also the possibility for each supervisor to tailor the workshop, in terms of time allotted, the techni‑
cal means available and the particularities of the people involved, to their group. Users add their own commentary
and notes, and produce their own records, along with those of the participants, which can be kept and go on to
compose a visual image observations notebook.
An educational platform has been developed as part of the Priority Youth programme launched by the Ministry of Culture and Communication and supported by
Total Foundation.
Launching with a competitive game
The Rencontres d’Arles launches a national competition related to a new online resource education tool, ‘L’Atelier
des photographes’, in partnership with the Mayors of France Association, Ministry of Culture and Communication,
Ministry of the Town, Youth and Sports and the Total Foundation.
Participants are invited to try out any of the eighty workshops proposed on the educational platform and to send
their feedback and review to the educational team. Winners will be selected from a random draw and will each
receive a Pause-Photo-Prose game and an ‘all exhibitions’ pass for the Rencontres d’Arles’ festival.
With suport from L’Atelier des photographes, in partnership with the Association des Maires de France, the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication,
Ministère de la Ville, de la Jeunesse et des Sports and Total Foundation.
Discover the platform and find all competition details at www.rencontres-arles.com
THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES ONLINE LIBRARY
The festival's words and memories
Launched on 1 July 2013, the Rencontres d’Arles Online Media Library aims to be a leading audiovisual archive
dedicated to photography.
A genuine extension of the festival, both lively and indispensable, it allows the words and opinions of artists and
personalities from the world of photography to be shared through illustrated articles, audio documents and videos
(films about the festival’s programme, recordings of the debates and symposiums, filmed recordings of the eve‑
ning presentations at the Théâtre Antique, documentaries and interviews). The Institut National de l’Audiovisual
(INA), has also made available its audiovisual archives dating back to the festival’s beginning.
The contents, both educative and intuitive, are organised by name, year, theme and country.
They are accompanied by more detailed information, have been conceived in a dynamic way, and are also adap‑
ted for various online uses and mediums.
A few figures: In April 2014, more than 1200 French articles, 1000 English articles and more than 500 notes on
personalities from the world of photography are available on the platform. These documents cover 60 nationalities
and 36 years of the festival. Now, more than 50 hours of video and 90 hours of audio recordings are available to all.
Moreover, 684 audiovisual items (dating from 1973 to 2011) have been digitised by the INA.
The media library receives support from the Ministry of Culture and Communication, within the context of the 2012 call for projects in innovative digital cultural services.
The filmed recordings and editing of the evening presentations at the Théâtre Antique are realised by ARTE.
The Rencontres d’Arles has passed its archives on to the INA and these are available for consultation at the Inathèque de France.
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SPECTACLES AND FESTIVALS IN ARLES
5 JULY
FESTIVAL OF COSTUME
More than 500 participants parade through the streets of Arles.
From the Place de la République to the Théâtre Antique.
6 JULY
COCARDE D'OR
This prestigious bull-run is a key event of the bullfighting season.
In the Arènes.
6 - 11 JULY
FESTIVAL VOIES OFF
An alternative look at emerging photography.
In 2015, Voies Off celebrates its 20th anniversary and proposes a special programme around the theme ‘Vigilance’.
Cour de l'Archevêché, Place de la République.
13 - 19 JULY
LES SUDS
20th edition of the world music festival.
Tuesday 14 July: Nuit des Fleuves, free concerts from 7PM onwards.
Théâtre Antique.
21 - 25 JULY
LES ESCALES DU CARGO FESTIVAL
Dream Theater, Louis Matthieu Joseph & Anna Chedid, Julien Doré...
Catch them live at the Théâtre Antique!
17 - 23 AUGUST
ARELATE, JOURNÉES ROMAINES D'ARLES
A week of various events staged in Arles’ monuments and streets and inspired by the city's Roman past.
Throughout the city
17 - 21 AUGUST
EPIC MOVIE FESTIVAL
Théâtre Antique.
11 - 13 SEPTEMBER
FÉRIA DU RIZ
La Goyesque d'Arles, celebrating Arles’ age-old bullfighting tradition.
City Center
EXHIBITIONS IN ARLES
12 JUNE - 20 SEPTEMBER
VAN GOGH’S DRAWINGS: INFLUENCES AND INNOVATIONS
RONI HORN: BUTTERFLY TO OBLIVION
Fondation Vincent van Gogh.
3 - 26 JULY
ROBERT ROCCHI, SOLITUDES
Maison de la Vie Associative d'Arles, 2 Boulevard des Lices.
3 - 26 JULY
HOMAGE TO LUCIEN CLERGUE THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS BY PROVENCE PHOTOGRAPHERS / SERGE
ASSIER & PHILIPPE JACCOTTET
Maison de la Vie Associative, 2 Boulevard des Lices.
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6 - 30 JULY
PHOTOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS AT GRENIER À SEL OR THE IMAGE, A PLAYER IN THE LIVE PERFORMING
ARTS
Exhibition visits, performances, conferences, interviews, presentations and screenings.
Théâtre de la Calade, Grenier à Sel.
6 - 12 JULY
FIELD EFFECTS
Field Effects captures photography’s effects in its counter-currents. Here photography becomes, in its very mate‑
riality, sculpture, painting, sound, digital image and image-movement.
Le Cap, 45 Rond Point des Arènes.
6 JULY - 8 AUGUST
SAMUEL BOLLENDORFF, THE GREAT FIRE
Galerie du Jour agnès b., 2 rue de la Bastille.
6 JULY - 20 SEPTEMBER
COMPLICIT CONFRONTATIONS
An exhibition and screening with Caroline Chevalier, Anne-Lise Broyer, Marie Maurel de Maillé and Françoise
Nunez, and the collaborators of the Comptoirs Arlésiens.
Comptoirs Arlésiens de la Jeune Photographie, 2 rue Jouvène, Place Honoré Clair.
6 JULY - 20 SEPTEMBER
NOSOUND PHOTOGRAPHY, REFLETIONS
An exhibition arising from journeys and encounters of Nosound Photography. Composed of scenes from life and
landscapes in which spectators are asked to be participants through their thinking, experiences and emotions.
Café Georges, 20 Boulevard Georges Clémenceau.
27 JULY - 23 AUGUST
ALAIN COLOMBAUD, SALT MARSHES / MICHEL LACANAUD, OBLIQUE LIGHTS OF AUTUMN / STÉPHANIE
MARIET, OVERGROWN / MICHEL WAYER, LANDSCAPES MUTATIONS / SAÏD FAHIM, THE STRANGER
24 AUGUST - 21 SEPTEMBER
MICHEL BOUISSEAU, POSTCARDS OF MARSEILLE / CHRISTIAN PETER, MARIONNETTES / MICHEL
VOLLE, STREET SETTINGS / CLAUDE SUC, BLUE ICE OF PATAGONIA / BERNARD RAULET, ARLES IS
CHARLIE
CULTURAL EVENTS IN THE REGION
29 APRIL - 31 AUGUST
LIEUX SAINTS PARTAGÉS
MuCEM, J4, Marseille.
26 MAY - 20 SEPTEMBER
BIOGRAPHICAL FORMS
Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes.
26 JUNE - 1er NOVEMBER
MARCEL DUCHAMP PRIZE
Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes.
3 JULY - 11 OCTOBER
OPENING OF THE COLLECTION LAMBERT’S NEW BUILDINGS
Fondation Lambert, Avignon.
4 JULY - 25 JULY
69th EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL D'AVIGNON
Avignon.
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4 JULY - 4 OCTOBER
A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. LOLA GARRIDO COLLECTION
This exhibition, dedicated to the great masters of the history of photography from the end of the nineteenth cen‑
tury until the 1990s, presents 94 photographs by 63 different photographers.
CAMPREDON Centre d'Art, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.
12 AUGUST - 3 OCTOBER
THE LUMINESENCE OF AVIGNON
Cour d'Honneur du Palais des Papes.
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EXHIBITIONS AND PRICES
Exhibitions from 7 July to 21 September inclusive (some central city sites close on Sunday 23 August, Sunday 30
August or Sunday 6 September).
Daily from 10AM to 7.30PM
The Rencontres d’Arles are entirely bilingual (French/English).
The exhibition catalogue will be available in July (jointly published by Rencontres d’Arles and Éditions Actes Sud,
in a French and English version).
Professional accreditation
Professional pass: €65 - no concessions
Non-transferable accreditation is restricted to photography and image professionals, upon presentation of proof of
professional identity (French professionals should provide a Siret or Agessa number; a letter from company mana‑
gement; or any other document proving your professional activity).
Valid from 6 to 12 July, it gives unlimited access to the exhibitions and evening screenings at the Théâtre Antique.
Accreditation requests can be made via My ‘Account’ in the Ticketing/Shop section of our website www.ren‑
contres-arles.com.
For more information: [email protected], +33 (0)4 90 96 76 06
Public passes and single tickets
For all exhibitions, one entry per exhibition, valid from 6 July to 20 September
July / August: €37 - Concessions: €29
September (available from Monday 31 August): €31 - Concessions €26
Day pass, one entry per exhibition, valid for one day
All summer: €29 - Concessions: €24
7-Day Opening Week pass (from 6 to 12 July inclusive)
€49 - no concessions, for unlimited access to all exhibitions
Single exhibition ticket
From €3.50
Free admission*
Arles citizens, under-18s, RSA, ASS, AAH, ASPA beneficiaries, disabled persons.
Concessions*
Students, jobseekers, large families, disabled person’s companion.
*Free admission and concessions are applied upon presentation of valid identification and official proof less than
three months old.
photography NIghts at the théâtre antique
From €13 to €18
night of the year
Free admission for all!
Ticket outlets / Festival shops
Online tickets: www.rencontres-arles.com
Festival office: 34 Rue du Docteur Fanton / Parc des Ateliers: 33 Avenue Victor Hugo / Espace Van Gogh: Place
Félix Rey / Place de la République / Église Sainte-Anne: Place de la République.
Guided exhibition visits
During the opening week, exhibiting photographers present their works to visitors.
From Monday 13 July to Sunday 20 September, a team of outreach staff / photographers offer daily, 90-minute
guided visits within the different exhibition sites. An insightful, technical and interactive approach to the festival.
Guided visits require no reservation and are free for pass-holders and for people qualifying for free admission
(Arles citizens, under-18s, AAH, RSA, ASS and ASPA beneficiaries and disabled persons).
Two different visits:
11AM: town centre (leaving from the Espace Van Gogh garden)
5PM: Parc des Ateliers (leaving from the ticket office)
Information is available at the ticket office and via the Useful Information section of our website www.rencontres-arles.com.
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Young people’s workshops /
Children 6 to12 years
Bring your parents along!
From 13 July to 23 August – Every day except Saturday
2.30PM– 4.30PM
Single price: €13 per child
Workshops limited to 12 children
For the second consecutive year, the Rencontres d’Arles offers a playful and educative pause for young festival‑
goers. Each day an outreach officer-photographer will supervise different, two-hour long workshops about inter‑
preting images and photographic practice. These workshops, arising from the new educational platform ‘L'Atelier
des photographes’ and the educational game Pause-Photo-Prose, invite children to form their own opinions about
images and to develop a critical gaze.
Information is available and reservations can be made at the ticket office or via the Ticketing/Shop section of our
website www.rencontres-arles.com.
For more information: Isabelle Saussol-Guignard / Marine Marion +33 (0)4 90 96 76 06
GROUP services
Whether you come in a group or separately, the Rencontres d’Arles offers discounts for groups of ten people or
more upon reservation. These special prices are aimed in particular at work committees, associations and organi‑
sers who wish to discover or allow others to discover Arles and the festival individually or during an organised trip.
Whether it be a company conference or a leisure outing to discover photography and the heritage of Arles, the
festival can devise a customised programme of activities tailored to your needs: personalised guided visits with an
outreach officer photographer, encounters with a photographer, photography workshop/initiation game, photo‑
graphy training, etc.
Group Services are available to accompany you in your project and its realisation.
Information and reservations:
Stéphanie Retière and Juliette Baud, [email protected] / +33 (0)4 90 96 63 39
GETTING TO ARLES
By road
From Paris / Lyon / Marseille - Nice: motorway A7 / A54, exit no.5 Arles Centre-Ville.
From Toulouse/Bordeaux: motorway A9 then A54, exit no.5 Arles Centre-Ville.
Covoiturage : www.covoiturage.fr
By train
www.voyages-sncf.com
Tél : (+ 33) 36 35
TGV Paris-Arles : 4 hours
TGV Paris-Avignon + connection to Arles: 2 hours 40 + 40 min
By plane
Nîmes airport: 25 km.
Marseilles-Provence airport: 65 km.
Avignon airport: 35 km.
By bus
Regular services to and from Marseille, Nîmes and Avignon.
For more information
www.lepilote.com
(for getting around the Bouches-du-Rhône)
www.edgard-transport.fr
(connections to and from the Gard region)
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2015
press
accreditation
FORM to be completed and sent before 10 june
2015 to:
Marika bekier and marie rollin
Claudine Colin communication
28 rue de Sévigné – 75004 Paris
Tel : + 33 (0)1 42 72 60 01
[email protected]
surname
Media
Accreditation is strictly reserved for journalists.
Press photographers have access to a professional
badge, for which there is a fee, upon presentation of
official proof of professional identity.
After authentication, your press accreditation will be available from
Monday 6 July at the festival office, located at 34 Rue du Docteur Fanton.
Press accreditation is non-transferable and gives free admission to
exhibitions only.
For all late accreditation requests (after 10 June), please do not email
the press service, but go directly to the press office in Arles during the
festival’s opening week, from Monday 6 to Sunday 12 July.
For the rest of the summer, please send specific requests to the press
office: [email protected]
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the luma foundation
and
LUMA Arles
The LUMA Foundation was established in 2004 to support the activities of independent artists and pioneers, as well
as institutions working in the fields of art and photography, publishing, documentary, and multimedia. The foun‑
dation especially supports artistic projects combining a particular interest in environmental issues, human rights,
education, and culture in its broadest sense.
The LUMA Foundation, founded in 2004, and LUMA Arles, founded in 2014 in support of the project in Arles, are
currently developing an experimental cultural center in the Parc des Ateliers in the city of Arles, France, working
with the architects Frank Gehry and Annabelle Selldorf. This ambitious project envisions an interdisciplinary cen‑
ter dedicated to the production of exhibitions and ideas, research, education, and archives and is supported by
a growing number of public and private partnerships. Construction started immediately after breaking ground in
April 2014, opening is scheduled for 2018.
The LUMA Foundation is proud to support the Rencontres d’Arles. Since its inception in 2002, the foundation
has supported the Discovery Award and for the 2015 edition, has jointly created the inaugural LUMA Rencontres
Dummy Book Award.
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the rencontres d'ARLES,
a major event for photography
and olympus
What could be a better place than Arles to share and show Olympus’s multi-faceted commitment to photography?
We will feature our partners, photographers, institutions and latest innovations at the Rencontres again this year.
For 75 years, we have put our know-how, inventiveness and cutting-edge optical technology at the service of
photography with innovative cameras that blaze new trails. Each year, we have the pleasure of giving Rencontres
visitors the first glimpse of our latest products. Of course we will again in 2015.
Over the years, our passion for photography naturally led us to support talented and experienced photographers.
We also back emerging young photographers discovered thanks to our partnerships with the École Nationale
Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP) and other leading institutions.
Among other things, our presence will be based on the exhibition of works by Paolo Woods (with Gabriele
Galimberti), whose various projects we have supported since meeting him in Arles five years ago, and on the
‘Olympus Meetings’ at the espace Fanton.
Sharing and creating will also be celebrated. Then, we will unveil part three of Olympus’s ‘Photographic
Conversations’. This year, Denis Darzacq, Paolo Woods and Dorothée Smith will dialogue with three ENSP students:
Rebecca Topakian, Elsa Leydier and Swen Renault.
Of course, we will gladly welcome our friends and visitors to the hôtel d’Arlatan, where they can discover and try
the latest products in the Olympus range.
As always, it is with great joy and in close cooperation with the Rencontres d’Arles that we will contribute to the
2015 festival’s success.
See you soon in Arles to celebrate our passion together: photography!
Didier Quilain
Président of Olympus France, Belgique.
Olympus partners:
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Jeu de Paume, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, École Nationale Supérieure de la
Photographie, Maison du geste et de l’image, festival Vichy Portrait(s), Universcience, Wipplay.com.
Antoine d’Agata, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Edouard Beau, Denis Darzacq, Stanley Greene, Françoise Huguier,
Grégoire Korganow, Laurence Leblanc, Sarah Moon, Erwan Morère, Richard Pak, Denis Rouvre, Mouna Saboni,
Klavdij Sluban, Dorothée Smith, le collectif Tendance Floue, Paolo Woods, Kimiko Yoshida.
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BMW and contemporary photography
BMW is a partner of the Rencontres d’Arles for the sixth consecutive year and is exhibiting Natasha Caruana’s work,
2014 winner of the BMW artist-in-residency.
BMW supports photography through a unique and ambitious cultural partnership, in the form of an art’s residency,
with the Musée Nicéphore Niépce. Initiated in 2011, the BMW Residency arose from a mutual wish, shared by the
museum and the brand, to develop contemporary photographic practices, and from ‘the shared desire to be led
to new spaces for creative production,’ as François Cheval, Head Curator of the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, says.
This partnership allows a young photographer, selected from a call for submissions, to realise a project during a
three-month residency. Under the direction of François Cheval and with technical assistance from the museum’s
laboratory, the artist has the possibility of exploring new fields of reflection.
As well as receiving a €6,000 grant and paid accommodation expenses at Chalon-sur-Saône, the laureate is given
the opportunity to exhibit his work at the Rencontres d’Arles and Paris Photo, to be presented in a video directed
by François Goizé, and to be published in a book with Éditions Trocadéro. The Residency selection committee
includes leading figures in photography, such as the aforementioned François Cheval, Sam Stourdzé, Director of
the Rencontres d’Arles, Christoph Wiesner, Artistic Director of Paris Photo, Damien Bachelot, art collector, Chantal
Nedjib, President of L’image par l’Image and Maryse Bataillard, in charge of BMW cultural engagement.
Serge Naudin, Chairman of the Executive Board of BMW Group France, underlines the similarity between the
approaches of both photographers and designers: ‘It is with the same freedom of creativity, the same attention
and sense of detail that our designers and engineers conceive our cars, by inventing each day the technological
innovations of tomorrow. Research becomes sublimated to give free reign to artistic emotion. BMW France natu‑
rally turns to photography to offer an area for free expression, to support the artistic production and to encourage
the emergence of talents by bringing to the laureates an exceptional visibility with professionals and general public
passionate by photography’.
Press contact for BMW France:
Maryse Bataillard / + 33 (0)1 30 43 93 23 / [email protected]
www.bmw.fr/artetculture
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GARES & CONNEXIONS,
Revealing culture
The goal of Gares & Connexions, the branch of the SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français) dedi‑
cated to the development and enhancement of France's 3000 railway stations, is to improve the quality of service
offered to passengers and to enrich their daily lives, while also making railway stations new public spaces. Since its
inception, art and culture has been central to the approach taken by Gares & Connexions.
By forging enduring bonds with cultural regional institutions, it offers cultural and artistic events to its passengers
and to local residents throughout the year and across the whole country. Its main specialised areas are contempo‑
rary art, music and photography; Gares & Connexions maintains a special relationship with the latter.
For six consecutive years, Gares & Connexions has been a leading partner of the Rencontres d’Arles. Each sum‑
mer it highlights the Rencontres’ programming by transforming the Paris-Gare de Lyon, Avignon TGV, Marseille
Saint-Charles and Arles railway stations into exhibition sites. Photography adapts wonderfully to railway station
architecture and triggers emotions better than any other medium in these places, where travellers are often in a
rush and their gazes fleeting.
Steadfastly loyal to the Rencontres, Gares & Connexions offers similar support to ImageSingulières and PhotoMed.
Nevertheless, in a desire to diversify the opportunities for its public to discover remarkable festivals taking place
throughout France and the work of talented photographers, it continues to extend its spheres of activity. In 2014,
it hence partnered Transphotographiques in Lille and the Breton photography festival La Gacilly for the first time.
Directed by Patrick Ropert since October 2014, SNCF Gares & Connexions is responsible for the management,
renovation and development of the network’s 3000 passenger railway stations. Gares & Connexions and its par‑
tners actively take part in enhancing the heritage of railway stations and in developing their urban and outlying
areas.
© David Paquin.
Exhibition Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles 2014, Marseille St-Charles railway stations.
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amanasalto
YELLOWKORNER
Established in 2012, amanasalto is a joint venture
between amana inc. in Japan and Salto Ulbeek in
Belgium. At its headquarters and the state-of-theart printing studio in Tokyo, amanasalto manages
the entire production processes for its publishing
projects, including planning, manufacturing and
distribution of limited edition prints, portfolios, and
premium photo books. The editorial and technical
teams work in close collaboration with internatio‑
nally renowned photographic artists and archives.
Our strength lies in a combination of editorial rigor,
mastery of traditional printing methods, and conti‑
nuous development of new printing techniques and
production systems.
YellowKorner was founded by photography-lovers
with a mission: to put this contemporary art form
within reach of as many people as possible.
ima
A panel of experts will select works by the five artists
they consider most promising from over 400 portfo‑
lios. Then, YellowKorner will publish the pictures in
an art book and exhibit them in its network of galle‑
ries. In addition, the best photographer’s work will
be on display at next year’s Rencontres d’Arles.
IMA began as a magazine in March 2012 to promote
its core philosophy of “Living with Photography”
—looking at, reading about, studying, buying, and
decorating with art photography. IMA has become
well regarded for its profiles of photographers
around the world who push the art form in new and
exciting directions, as well as features on notable
trends in the field of art photography.
After successfully establishing a strong online
presence, in 2014 the magazine opened IMA
Concept Store, a gallery-bookshop-café located
right in the heart of Tokyo’s Roppongi district. The
store curates photography exhibitions offering
novel approaches and perspectives, and hosts a
variety of events including workshops led by some
of today’s top creatives. IMA has even launched its
own publishing brand—IMA photobooks—to give
it the freedom to plan and publish photobooks that
meet its own sensibilities, as well as to foster the
development of today’s brightest young Japanese
photographers.
Since 2006, YellowKorner has been revealing talent,
promoting young photographers, opening galleries
— 28 in France and over 80 worldwide so far — and
publishing deluxe copies of photographs, books
and portfolios to showcase work by famous and
rising photographers.
Its approach perfectly matches the spirit of the
Rencontres d'Arles, so the decision to team up
came naturally. In 2015, YellowKorner will be a par‑
tner of the Photo Folio Review, meetings between
professionals and young photographers.
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swiss
confederation
parmigiani
fleurier
It is an honour for the Swiss Confederation to be
a partner of one of the world’s most important
annual photography events. For us, it is also an
obvious pairing. In our country, this art is as varied
as the cultures that make up Switzerland,
a combination of pride in our origins with an open‑
ness to the world. As the Rencontres’ programme
shows, photography in Switzerland not only
concerns renowned institutions, but also schools,
artists and festivals. And publishers who testify to
this diversity.
Parmigiani Fleurier – named after its founder
Michel Parmigiani – was created in Val de Travers
in 1996 and has based its values on authentic
Haute Horlogerie ever since. Thanks to the Sandoz
Family Foundation industrial watchmaking centre,
which is available to it as a priority, in the space of
a few years the Parmigiani Fleurier brand has
gained a unique credibility in the history of
modern watchmaking. By remaining faithful to its
founding values, such as the restoration of
masterpieces of the watchmaker’s art, it is one of
the few firms to preserve an image of authenticity
in the eyes of the public. That is why, even today,
at Parmigiani Fleurier, a restoration workshop is
dedicated exclusively to restoring objets d’art
from past centuries.
By our association, in particular, with
Cosmos-Arles Books, which celebrates these
publishers, we enter fully into an ambitious project,
at the crossroads of all that which goes to make
up photography. A space to gather, to eat (a little),
to discuss (a lot) and above all for encounters, the
nonante-neuf will be a lively photography library.
More than a showcase for Switzerland, this space
will be a platform for exchange and discovery.
The Swiss spirit in the enthusiastic character of
Arles.
The Parmigiani Fleurier brand, which is deeply
committed to photography, would like to extend
its support for the Rencontres d’Arles in the
continuity of its backing of the Prix Elysée.
Participating in the event for the first time this year,
the Swiss watchmaker will sponsor the Stephen
Shore retrospective, one of the 2015 festival’s
flagship projects.
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pinsent masons
LLP
rivedroit
avocats
Pinsent Masons LLP, an international law firm,
has expressed its desire to be a partner of the
Rencontres d’Arles. Our firm regularly distinguishes
itself by its
sponsorship and pro bono activities, particularly
within the cultural domain. This current approach
to skills sponsorship was initiated by photography
enthusiasts from within our firm.
Since its creation, Rivedroit Avocats, a Paris based
buisness law firm, has played a leading role in
promoting the arts and culture in all their forms by
donating its skills.
runs a skills sponsorship with the 2015
Rencontres d’Arles.
Founded in the United Kingdom in 1769, Pinsent
Masons LLP offers its French and international
clients a full range of services in every aspect of
business law.
We can advise you on legal matters in the areas
of new technology, media, telecommunications,
e-commerce, intellectual property, social law, tax
law, commercial law, mergers/acquisitions, banking
and finance, real estate, disputes, arbitration and
construction law.
Pinsent Masons LLP has over 1,700 lawyers,
including 390 partners, based mainly throughout
Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Around 40
lawyers are currently working in our Paris office.
Marketing contact: Charlie Grausem
Direct line: 01 53 53 09 81
[email protected]
Partner lawyer in charge of partnerships:
Jean-François Rage
Direct line: 01 53 53 09 64
[email protected]
runs a skills sponsorship with the 2015
Rencontres d’Arles.
After supporting the Paris Orchestra, Centre
Pompidou-Metz and Quai Branly Museum, the
firm is delighted to sponsor the Rencontres d’Arles
festival.
By contributing its legal expertise, ‘Rivedroit
Avocats wanted to participate, however modestly,
in the festival’s missions of sharing and discovery,’
says founding partner Nicolas Maubert.
ABOUT RIVEDROIT A.A.R.P.I.
In 2009, lawyers from several major firms founded
Rivedroit Avocats, which carries on a tradition of
excellence and commitment to clients in a flexible
and dynamic structure.
Accustomed to multicultural work environments,
the firm’s lawyers help their clients in France and
abroad with all their projects’ legal aspects, deve‑
loping close relationships with them. Its clients
include French and international corporations as
well as SMEs.
As a multidisciplinary firm, Rivedroit Avocats is
mainly active in the following areas: corporate law,
foreign investment law, intellectual property law,
art law, contract and liability law, penal business
law and complex commercial disputes. Rivedroit
Avocats offers its clients transversal solutions.
www.pinsentmasons.com
Rivedroit A.A.R.P.I. press contact:
Elsa Tavernier – 01.40.54.30.40 – [email protected]
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ARTE and photography
Throughout the seasons, ARTE offers a sprinkling of creative gems linked to photography in all its forms.
The Internet project Photo Rebels by Marc Aurèle Vecchione will take a look back at key counterculture moments
through the gaze of photographers who captured the trend’s essence and revealed its rebel spirit. With Janette
Beckman, Danny Lyon, Henry Chalfant, Gavin Watson and Glen E. Friedman.
De l’Autoportrait au selfie by Stéphane Carrel will explore the varied cultural practices of the selfie.
On the ARTE television channel, the collection L’Inde dans l’objectif by Emma Tassy will propose four 26-minute
long documentaries about a wildly photogenic country.
Koudelka au travail, by Gilad Baram, will immerse us in the famous Czech photographer’s world.
With Robert Frank: You Got Eyes, Laura Israel proposes an original documentary about the great Swiss-American
photographer.
Magnum et le cinéma, en toute intimité by Sophie Bassaler is an intimate and unique encounter between the
Magnum Photos agency’s photojournalists and cinema.
At the same time, ARTE Actions Culturelles continues to accompany many photographic events: Festival
Circulation(s), Fotofever, Nuits de la Photographie, Images Singulières, Breton photography festival La Gacilly,
Boutographies, Foto Paris Berlin and Photaumnales, to mention just a few.
As a loyal and attentive partner of the Rencontres d’Arles, ARTE supports the highly awaited 2015 edition.
ARTE will present a preview of Chère humaine by Stéphane Breton, a photographic film produced for ‘La
Lucarne’.
And because we will celebrate the centenary of his birth, ARTE will premiere Roland Barthes 1915-1980. Le
théâtre du langage by Chantal and Thierry Thomas.
Courtesy of Danny Lyon, Henry Chalfant, Janette Beckman,
Gavin Watson and Glen E. Friedman.
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FRANCE INTER
PARTner of
the RENCONTRES
D'ARLES 2015
For seven consecutive years, France Inter has been
a partner of the Rencontres d'Arles.
With exhibitions, encounters and panel discus‑
sions, from traditional photography to advertising,
reportage and portraits, the Rencontres d’Arles
explores every facet of contemporary photography
all summer.
France Inter listeners can tune in to follow this major
event again this year.
Find the programme and guests on France Inter
and franceinter.fr.
France Inter, the Festivals radio, in Arles at 91.3
Press contact: Marion Glémet – 06 23 18 31 74
[email protected]
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These elements are also available and regularly updated on
the site of the festival: rencontres-arles.com

Arles 2015 - Rencontres d`Arles

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