The Rencontres d'Arles (formerly called Rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles) is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette.
The Rencontres d'Arles has an international impact by showing material that has never been seen by the public before. In 2015, the festival welcomed 93,000 visitors.
The specially designed exhibitions, often organised in collaboration with French and foreign museums and institutions, take place in various historic sites. Some venues, such as 12th-century chapels or 19th-century industrial buildings, are open to the public throughout the festival.
The Rencontres d'Arles has revealed many photographers, confirming its significance as a springboard for photography and contemporary creativity.
In recent years the Rencontres d'Arles has invited many guest curators and entrusted some of its programming to such figures as Martin Parr in 2004, Raymond Depardon in 2006 and the Arles-born fashion designer Christian Lacroix.
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Art directors
- 1970 - 1972: Lucien Clergue, Michel Tournier, Jean-Maurice Rouquette
- 1973 - 1976: Lucien Clergue
- 1977: Bernard Perrine
- 1978: Jacques Manachem
- 1979 - 1982: Alain Desvergnes
- 1983 - 1985: Lucien Clergue
- 1986 - 1987: François Hébel
- 1988 - 1989: Claude Hudelot
- 1990: Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
- 1991 - 1993: Louis Mesplé
- 1994: Lucien Clergue
- 1995 - 1998, délégué général: Bernard Millet
- 1995, artistic director: Michel Nuridsany
- 1996, artistic director: Joan Fontcuberta
- 1997, artistic director: Christian Caujolle
- 1998, artistic director: Giovanna Calvenzi
- 1999 - 2001: Gilles Mora
- 2002 - 2014: François Hébel
- Since 2015: Sam Stourdzé
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The festival
Events
Opening week at the Rencontres d'Arles features photography-focused events (projections at night, exhibition tours, panel discussions, symposia, parties, book signings, etc.) in the town's historic venues, some of which are only open to the public during the festival. Memorable events in recent years include Europe Night (2008), an overview of European photography; Christian Lacroix's fashion show for the festival's closing (2008); and Patti Smith's concert for the Vu agency's 20th anniversary (2006).
Nights at the Roman Theatre
At night, work by a photographer or a photography expert is projected in the town's open-air Roman theatre accompanied by concerts and performances. Each event is a one-off creation. In 2009, 8,500 people attended evenings at the Roman theatre, an average of 2,000 a night, and 2,500 were there on closing night, when the Tiger Lilies played during a projection of Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency". In 2013 over 6,000 people attended the nighttime photography projections, an average of approximately 1,000 each night.
The Night of the Year
The Night of the Year, which was created in 2006, allows visitors to walk around and see the festival's favourite works by artists and photographers as well as carte blanche exhibitions by institutions.
Cosmos-Arles Books
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 expression and distribution, providing a rich terrain of expression for the art's fundamentally hybrid forms.
Symposia and panel discussions
Photographers and professionals participating in symposia and panel discussions during opening week discuss their work or issues raised by the images on display. In recent years the themes included whether a black-and-white aesthetic is still conceivable in photography (2013); the impact of social networks on creativity and information (2011); breaking with past, a key idea for photography today (2009); photography commissions: freedom or constraint (2008); challenges and changes in the photography market (2007).
The Rencontres d'Arles awards
Since 2002 the Rencontres d'Arles awards have been an opportunity to discover new talents. In 2007 the number of annual awards was reduced to three, presented at the closing ceremony of the festival's professional week: the Discovery Award (EUR25,000), Author's Book Award (EUR8,000) and History Book Award (EUR8,000).
Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award
In 2015 the Rencontres d'Arles offered an award to assist with the publication of a dummy book. Endowed with a EUR25,000 budget production budget, this new prize is open to all photographers and artists using photography who submit a dummy book that has never been published.
The winner's book will be produced in autumn 2015 and be presented at the 2016 Rencontres d'Arles.
Photo Folio Review & Gallery
Since 2006 aspiring photographers have been able to submit their portfolios to international photography experts in various fields, including publishers, exhibition curators, heads of institutions, agency directors, gallery owners, collectors, critics and photo editors, for appraisal during the festival's opening week. Photo Folio Review & Gallery offers them an opportunity to show their work throughout the festival.
Photography classes
The Rencontres d'Arles has always been a place where professional photographers and practitioners on every level have been able to meet each other and exchange ideas. Each year, photography class participants undertake a personal journey of creation through photography's aesthetic, ethical and technological issues. Leading photographers such as Guy le Querrec, Antoine d'Agata, Martin Parr, René Burri and Joan Fontcuberta regularly teach at the Rencontres d'Arles.
Rentrée en Images
"Rentrée en Images" has been a key part of the festival's educational activities since 2004. During the first two weeks in September, special mediators take students from the primary to graduate school level on guided tours of the exhibitions. Based on the festival's programming, the event aims to introduce young people to the visual arts and fits in with a wider policy of cultural democratisation. "Rentrée en Images" reaches thousands of students, and for many of them it is their first exposure to contemporary art.
Budget
Public funding accounted for 40% of the 2015 festival's EUR6.3-million budget, sales (mainly of tickets and derivative products), 40% and private partnerships, 20%.
Executive Committee
- Hubert Védrine, president
- Hervé Schiavetti, vice-president
- Jean-François Dubos, vice-president
- Marin Karmitz, treasurer
- Françoise Nyssen, secretary
- Lucien Clergue, Jean-Maurice Rouquette, Michel Tournier, founding members
The Rencontres d'Arles award winners
2002
- Jury: Denis Curti, Alberto Anault, Alice Rose George, Manfred Heiting, Erik Kessels, Claudine Maugendre, Val Williams
- Discovery Award: Peter Granser
- No Limit award: Jacqueline Hassink
- Dialogue of the humanity award: Tom Wood
- Photographer of the year award: Roger Ballen
- Help to the project: Pascal Aimar, Chris Shaw
- Author's Book Award: Sibusiso Mbhele and His Fish Helicopter by Koto Bolofo (powerHouse Books, 2002)
- Help to publishing: Une histoire sans nom by Anne-Lise Broyer
2003
- Jury: Giovanna Calvenzi, Hou Hanru, Christine Macel, Anna Lisa Milella, Urs Stahel
- Discovery Award: Zijah Gafic
- No Limit award: Thomas Demand
- Dialogue of the humanity award: Fazal Sheikh
- Photographer of the year award: Anders Petersen
- Help to the project: Jitka Hanzlova
- Author's Book Award: Hide That Can by Deirdre O'Callaghan (Trolley Books, 2002)
- Help to publishing: A Personal Diary of Chinese Avant-Garde in the 1990s, China (1993-1998) by Xing Danwen
2004
- Jury: Eikoh Hosoe, Joan Fontcuberta, Tod Papageorge, Elaine Constantine, Antoine d'Agata
- Discovery Award: Yasu Suzuka
- No Limit award: Jonathan de Villiers
- Dialogue of the humanity award: Edward Burtynsky
- Help to the project: John Stathatos
- Author's Book Award: Particulars by David Goldblatt (Goodman Gallery, 2003)
2005
- Jury: Ute Eskildsen, Jean-Louis Froment, Michel Mallard, Kathy Ryan, Marta Gili
- Discovery Award: Miroslav Tichý
- No Limit award: Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
- Dialogue of the humanity award: Simon Norfolk
- Help to the project: Anna Malagrida
- Author's Book Award: Temporary Discomfort (Chapter I-V) by Jules Spinatsch (Lars Müller Publishers, 2005)
2006
- Jury: Vincent Lavoie, Abdoulaye Konaté, Yto Barrada, Marc-Olivier Wahler, Alain d'Hooghe
- Discovery Award: Alessandra Sanguinetti
- No Limit award: Randa Mirza
- Dialogue of the humanity award: Wang Qingsong
- Help to the project: Walid Raad
- Author's Book Award: Form aus Licht und Schatten by Heinz Hajek-Halke (Steidl, 2005)
2007
- Jury: Bice Curiger, Alain Fleischer, Johan Sjöström, Thomas Weski, Anne Wilkes Tucker
- Discovery Award: Laura Henno
- Author's Book Award: Empty Bottles by WassinkLundgren (Thijs groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren) (Veenman Publishers, 2007)
- Historical Book Award: László Moholy-Nagy: Color in Transparency: Photographic Experiments in Color, 1934-1946 by Jeannine Fiedler (Steidl & Bauhaus-Archiv, 2006)
2008
- Jury: Elisabeth Biondi, Luis Venegas, Nathalie Ours, Caroline Issa and Massoud Golsorkhi, Carla Sozzani
- Discovery Award: Pieter Hugo
- Author's Book Award: Strange and Singular by Michael Abrams (Loosestrife, 2007)
- Historical Book Award: Nein, Onkel: Snapshots from Another Front 1938-1945 by Ed Jones and Timothy Prus (Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007)
2009
- Jury: Lucien Clergue, Bernard Perrine, Alain Desvergnes, Claude Hudelot, Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Louis Mesplé, Bernard Millet, Michel Nuridsany, Joan Fontcuberta, Christian Caujolle, Giovanna Calvenzi, Martin Parr, Christian Lacroix, Arnaud Claass, Christian Milovanoff
- Discovery Award: Rimaldas Viksraitis
- Author's Book Award: From Back Home by Anders Petersen and JH Engström (Bokförlaget Max Ström, 2009)
- Historical Book Award: In History by Susan Meiselas (Steidl and International Center of Photography, 2008)
2010
- Discovery Award: Taryn Simon
- LUMA award: Trisha Donnelly
- Author's Book Award: Photography 1965-74 by Yutaka Takanashi (Only Photograph, 2010)
- Historical Book Award: Les livres de photographies japonais des années 1960 et 1970 by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian (Seuil, 2009)
2011
- Discovery Award: Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse
- Author's Book Award: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters by Taryn Simon (Mack, 2011)
- Historical Book Award: Works by Lewis Baltz (Steidl, 2010)
2012
- Discovery Award: Jonathan Torgovnik
- Author's Book Award: Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson (Mack, 2011)
- Historical Book Award: Les livres de photographie d'Amérique latine by Horacio Fernández (Images en Manoeuvres Éditions, 2011)
2013
- Discovery Award: Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh and Rozenn Quéré
- Author's Book Award: Anticorps by Antoine d'Agata (Xavier Barral & Le Bal, 2013)
- Historical Book Award: AOI [COD.19.1.1.43] - A27 [S | COD.23 by Rosângela Rennó (Self-published, 2013)
2014
- Discovery Award: Zhang Kechun
- Author's Book Award: Hidden Islam by Nicolo Degiorgis (Rorhof, 2014)
- Historical Book Award: Paris mortel retouché by Johan van der Keuken (Van Zoetendaal Publishers, 2013)
2015
- Discovery Award: Pauline Fargue
- Author's Book Award: H. said he loved us by Tommaso Tanini (Discipula Editions, 2014)
- Historical Book Award: Monograph Vitas Luckus. Works & Biography by Margarita Matulyt? and Tatjana Luckiene-Aldag (Kaunas Photography Gallery and Lithuanian Art Museum, 2014)
- Dummy Book Award: The Jungle Book by Yann Gross
- Photo Folio Review: Piero Martinelo (winner); Charlotte Abramow, Martin Essi, Elin Høyland, Laurent Kronenthal (special mentions)
2016
- Discovery Award: Sarah Waiswa
- Author's Book Award: Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor by Mariken Wessels (Art Paper Editions, 2015)
- Historical Book Award: (in matters of) Karl by Annette Behrens (Fw: Books, 2015)
- Photo-Text Award: Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition by Edmund Clark and Crofton Black (Aperture, 2015)
- Dummy Book Award: You and Me: A project between Bosnia, Germany and the US by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber
- Photo Folio Review: David Fathi (winner); Sonja Hamad, Eric Leleu, Karolina Paatos, Maija Tammi (special mentions)
2017
- Discovery Award: Carlos Ayesta and Guillaume Bression
- Author's Book Award: Ville de Calais by Henk Wildschut (self-published, 2017)
- Special Mention for Author's Book Award: Gaza Works by Kent Klich (Koenig, 2017)
- Historical Book Award: Latif Al Ani by Latif Al Ani (Hannibal Publishing, 2017)
- Photo-Text Award: The Movement of Clouds around Mount Fuji by Masanao Abe and Helmut Völter (Spector Books, 2016)
- Dummy Book Award: Grozny: Nine Cities by Olga Kravets, Maria Morina, and Oksana Yushko
- Photo Folio Review: Aurore Valade (winner); Haley Morris Cafiero, Alexandra Lethbridge, Charlotte Abramow, Catherine Leutenegger (special mentions)
Exhibitions
References
External links
- Official website
- The Arles Photography Festival - The official website of France (in English)
- Leica Oskar Barnack Award, awarded by Leica Camera AG at Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie
- L'Atelier des photographes
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