Rencontres d’Arles
Photography Festival
Every summer since 1970, over the course of more than forty exhibitions at various of the city’s exceptional heritage sites, the Rencontres d’Arles has been a major influence in disseminating the best of world photography and playing the role of a springboard for photographic and contemporary creative talents.
The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly known as the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles) is a summer photography festival founded in 1970 by Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, author Michel Tournier and historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette.
The Rencontres d’Arles’ policy of programming, almost exclusively consisting of new work, has earned a world-wide reputation.
The exhibitions, often co-produced with both French and foreign museums and institutions, are given on various heritage sites, suitably stage-designed for the purpose.
Many photographers have been discovered as a result of the Rencontres; a sure sign of the festival’s importance as a springboard for photographic and contemporary creative talent.
Franco Fontana (bio); Main: Franco Fontana, Sahar Mokhtari, Zhu Lan Qing, Karen Paulina Biswell, Sarah Waiswa, Prune Phi, Gideon Mendel, Michael Christopher Brown, Guy Bouchet, Li Feng, Ann Ray, Mathieu Asselin, Franco Fontana, Phenomena.
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Rencontres d’Arles
Photography Festival
Every summer since 1970, over the course of more than forty exhibitions at various of the city’s exceptional heritage sites, the Rencontres d’Arles has been a major influence in disseminating the best of world photography and playing the role of a springboard for photographic and contemporary creative talents.
The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly known as the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles) is a summer photography festival founded in 1970 by Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, author Michel Tournier and historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette.
The Rencontres d’Arles’ policy of programming, almost exclusively consisting of new work, has earned a world-wide reputation.
The exhibitions, often co-produced with both French and foreign museums and institutions, are given on various heritage sites, suitably stage-designed for the purpose.
Many photographers have been discovered as a result of the Rencontres; a sure sign of the festival’s importance as a springboard for photographic and contemporary creative talent.
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Franco Fontana (bio); Main: Franco Fontana, Sahar Mokhtari, Zhu Lan Qing, Karen Paulina Biswell, Sarah Waiswa, Prune Phi, Gideon Mendel, Michael Christopher Brown, Guy Bouchet, Li Feng, Ann Ray, Mathieu Asselin, Franco Fontana, Phenomena.
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