Arles 2016 - Rencontres d`Arles

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Arles
2016
LES RENCONTRES
DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
EXHIBITIONS
4 JULY
— 25 SEPTEMBER
RENCONTRES-ARLES.COM
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
TOILETPAPER MAGAZINE / MAURIZIO CATTELAN
ET PIERPAOLO FERRARI, SanS titre (DETAIL)
DESIGN ABM STUDIO
Arles
2016
LES RENCONTRES
DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
OPENING WEEK
— 4 > 10 juLY
ExHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS
4 JULY
— 25 septembER
PRESS KIT - MARCH 2016
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INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
MAIN PARTNERS
MEDIA PARTNERS
THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES ENJOY THE SPECIAL SUPPORT OF
secretary of state for war veterans and remembrance,
GROUPE TOTAL , PRIX PICTET, FONDATION JAN MICHALSKI POUR
L'ÉCRITURE ET LA LITTÉRATURE, YELLOWKORNER, The swiss
confederation, L'OCCITANE foundation, FONDATION
D'ENTREPRISE HERMÈS, MÉTROBUS, ACTES SUD, SAIF, ADAGP,
FNAC, LUMA ARLES, COMMUNAUTÉ D'AGGLOMÉRATION ARLES
CRAU CAMARGUE MONTAGNET TE.
AND THE ACTIVE COLLABORATION OF
ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE D'ARLES,
MUSÉE RÉAT TU, CARRÉ D'ART-MUSÉE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE
NÎMES, COLLECTION LAMBERT AVIGNON, VILLA MÉDITERRANÉE,
MUSÉE DÉPARTEMENTAL ARLES ANTIQUE, ABBAYE DE
MONTMAJOUR, MUSEON ARLATEN, 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,
Association pour un Musée de la résistance et de la
déportation en Arles et Pays d’Arles, INRAP, THÉÂTRE
D'ARLES, INA, BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE TOURISME.
THE SUPPORT FROM
FONDATION DANIEL ET NINA CARASSO, TECTONA, RIVEDROIT
AVOCATS, PINSENT MASONS LLP, DIRECTION RÉGIONALE DE LA
PROTECTION JUDICIAIRE DE LA JEUNESSE SUD EST, ORANGE
LOGIC, LE POINT, IDEAT magazine, FISHEYE, THE EYES, OFF THE
WALL, PICTO, CENTRAL DUPON IMAGES, PROCESSUS, CIRCAD,
PLASTICOLLAGE, ATELIER SUNGHEE LEE & GAMBIER, ANITA
SAXENA.
The 47th edition of the rencontres d'arles is dedicated to michel tournier (1924 - 2016).
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A Word from the
Minister
Audrey Azoulay
Minister of Culture and
Communication
The 47th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles is an
opportunity for me to pay tribute to Sam Stourdzé,
who for a year now has directed this international
event of which France is deeply proud, and
Hubert Védrine, who presides over its destiny.
This year, the Rencontres offer a reexamined
history of street photography, with the ‘Street’
section and, in particular, works by Eamonn
Doyle, Sid Grossman and Christian Marclay.
New approaches to documentary are also in the
spotlight with the ‘Platforms of the Visible’, and
battlefields are explored in ‘After the War’, a section
of the programme exhibiting work by Yan Morvan
about theatres of war, Alexandre Guirkinger’s
look at the Maginot Line, and images by the great
photographer of conflict zones, Don McCullin.
Elsewhere, ‘Africa Pop’ invites visitors to make
a detour to Africa, Mali and Nigeria, while
‘Western Stories’ leads to the vast expanses
of the Camargue filmed by Joë Hamman
and Jean Durand, and to the American West
through Bernard Plossu’s memorable work.
This 47th edition rediscovers the energy specific
to the Rencontres as envisioned by its founders,
in particular writer Michel Tournier, who passed
away this year, and whose name and deeds I wish
to recall here. In the 1960s, with Jean-Maurice
Rouquette, Maryse Cordesse and Lucien Clergue,
Tournier had campaigned for the opening of the
École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie
d’Arles, which contributed to transforming the
city into a hub of excellence for photography.
This summer, the French president will lay the
foundation stone of the school’s new building, which
will be welcoming students in September 2018.
The École and the Rencontres offer photography
amateurs and professionals situations which stimulate
the eyes and mind. They contribute to aesthetic,
political and economic thinking about this medium.
They offer visitors windows into the present time.
Hence, this year, in Arles, 9/11, evoked through the
Nothing but Blue Skies exhibition which presents
an archive of photos relating to the 2001 attacks,
links with Hara Kiri magazine, as ‘the Rencontres
pays homage to Charlie Hebdo’ through original
photomontages that resulted in key Hara Kiri covers.
I would like to congratulate Sam Stourdzé and his
team for the remarkable work they carry out for the
Rencontres, for photographers and the public.
I would also like to thank local and regional
authorities, and the City of Arles, all of whom
contribute to the success of the Rencontres.
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An international
dimension and
local roots
Hervé Schiavetti
Mayor of Arles
‘This little town was destined to become the capital
of photography,’ writer Michel Tournier, who died in
January 2016, said in July 1977.
‘First, of course, there’s the light, the transparency
of Provençal air. Then there’s the architecture,
the arena and what goes on there. And obviously,
there’s the people.’ Mr. Tournier co-founded the
Rencontres with photographer Lucien Clergue
and curator Jean-Maurice Rouquette. Together,
they changed the destiny of Arles. Thanks to
them, Arles and photography will celebrate their
shared history for the 47th consecutive summer.
Despite being a relatively recent tradition, the festival
is now an integral part of Arles’s identity.
It is also an international asset and a job-generating
engine of the local economy: last year, the festival
employed 365 people, 200 of them on six-month
subsidised contracts. In addition to these direct
jobs, the Rencontres has a positive knock-on
effect on hotels, restaurants and shops.
In 2015, the first Rencontres with Sam Stourdzé as
director and Hubert Védrine as president met with
notable and well-deserved success. Attendance
(93,000 visitors) rose by 12% compared to the
previous year and the exhibitions won worldwide
praise. I am especially delighted with one
figure: 7,400 Arles residents, or 14% of the city’s
population (all ages combined), visited exhibitions
at the Rencontres, a 16% increase compared to
2014. Local residents are increasingly passionate
about photography, a sign that the importance
of cultural industries in Arles’s reality is rising.
The festival’s international dimension has deep
local roots. That is an asset the 2016 Rencontres,
I am convinced, will again demonstrate, all the
more so since the number of exchanges, links and
bridges is increasing. An example is the Night of
the Year, an amazing event that will take place at
the former Trinquetaille paper mill, the city’s latest
redevelopment project, for the second time. The
organisers also had the wonderful idea of asking
artist Stéphanie Solinas to revisit the ex-Lustucru
site and its metal cathedral, which Gustave
Eiffel designed for the 1906 Marseille colonial
exhibition. Symbolising the triumph of industrial
architecture, Lustucru has also been an emblem
of economic brutality in Arles since flooding was
used as an excuse to shut it down in 2003.
Another exhibition, the Camargue Western, is on a
lighter note. Joë Hamman, a friend of Buffalo Bill’s
and a prolific director, realised that the Camargue’s
men, cattle and landscapes would be ideal for
making Westerns. He cleared the way for a genre
that includes such cult films as D'où viens-tu Johnny?,
the first movie starring Johnny Hallyday, which
American director Noël Howard shot in 1963 with a
screenplay by journalist and writer Yvan Audouard.
The Gypsy guitarist Manitas de Plata, whose
agent was Lucien Clergue, appears in the film.
It will be our pleasure to welcome the new Minister of
Culture, Audrey Azoulay, to Arles for the festival, the
future École nationale supérieure de la photographie
(ENSP)—one of President Hollande’s projects—and
the Luma Foundation project with its tower designed
by Frank Gehry, which has reached its final height.
Chaired by Maja Hoffmann, the Luma Foundation,
which funds the Discovery and Dummy Books Awards,
has kindly made the magnificently refurbished
Grande Halle and Forges available for the festival.
Since 2001, the Luma Foundation has been one
of the private partners that makes the festival
possible, alongside Olympus, BMW and Gares &
Connexions. I would like to thank them as well as
the public partners—the Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur Regional Council and its president, Christian
Estrosi, and the Bouches-du-Rhône Departmental
Council and its president, Martine Vassal—for their
steadfast loyalty no matter which party is in power.
I would also like to thank the entire Rencontres
team from the bottom of my heart and
wish everybody who loves photography
and Arles a beautiful 47th Rencontres.
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Grand Arles
Express!
Hubert Védrine
president of the Rencontres d’Arles
Visitors to the Rencontres d’Arles not only find the
creative, sensitive world of talented photographers
every year, but also rediscover a unique heritage
and places, from 12th-century churches and
abbeys, a medieval cloister and the Archbishop’s
Palace to industrial buildings, including some that
are open to the public only during the festival.
This year, as in previous ones, all the exhibition
venues have been made available by local
players: the city, the Luma Foundation, Actes
Sud, Musée Départemental Arles Antique,
Musée Réattu, Communauté d’Agglomération
Arles Crau Camargue Montagnette, Association
pour un Musée de la Résistance et de la
Déportation en Arles et Pays d’Arles.
We are glad to see they are happy to support
the festival throughout the summer.
Meanwhile, we are continuing to look for new
venues. This year, new places will be open to
the public: Ground Control, a large hall near the
railway station; the former Collège Mistral, which
will host Cosmos-Arles-Books; and the Hôtel
de Luppé, where the Olympus photographic
conversation will take place. And given last year’s
success, the Night of the Year will be held at the
Papeteries Étienne site again this summer.
The big news is that we will let our local presence
shine out from Arles by bringing the festival to
the region in order to meet the South’s interest in
photography. As a start, in addition to many events
at Arles 2016, the ‘Grand Arles Express’ will call at
the Lambert Collection in Avignon, the Carré d'Art
in Nîmes and the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille.
Welcome to the 2016 Rencontres!
MANY THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS!
The Rencontres d’Arles would like to thank
the Minister of Culture and Communication,
Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs PACA,
Minister of National Education, Higher Education
and Research, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Regional Council, Bouches-du-Rhône County
Council, City of Arles, Canopé network,
Centre des Monuments Nationaux, and the
Minister of State for Veterans and Remembrance,
as well as all our public partners whose ongoing
support is invaluable to us.
The Rencontres d’Arles would also like to
thank the private sponsors and partners for
their generosity and their trust, first amongst
them the LUMA Foundation, Olympus, BMW,
SNCF Gare & Connexions, Total and Prix Pictet,
along with all those whom it is not possible to
mention here.
We are also thrilled to strengthen our
collaboration with those partners who have
recently committed to supporting us, including
the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l'Écriture
et la Littérature, YellowKorner and the
Swiss Confederation, and of welcoming this
year the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès
and the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso.
Last but not least, we would like to thank our
media partners who disseminate the festival
image far and wide: ARTE, France Inter, Konbini,
Le Point, IDEAT Magazine, Fisheye, The Eyes,
OFF the wall, and all the others there is not
space to mention here.
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STORYTELLERS
Sam Stourdzé
director of the Rencontres d’Arles
Photographers lead and guide us through the
subjects that drive them. They document, search
and investigate. Photographers are investigators.
They know their subjects like the backs of their
hands. When they go out on the field, they meet,
interact and explore. Photographers are explorers.
Looking for new territories, they bear witness
to the world’s vastness, interrogate history and
question the medium. They are neither historians
nor sociologists, but artists who construct a visual
cosmology out of still or moving images, texts
or sounds. They take us along on their stories.
Photographers are storytellers. Examples include
Laia Abril, who, in the first chapter of her chronicle
of misogyny, focuses on abortion; João Pina, who
spent over 10 years investigating Operation Condor
and the disappearance of 60,000 political prisoners
in six South American dictatorships; and Yan
Morvan's imposing encyclopaedia of battlefields.
An arsenal to support creation
As always, the 47th Rencontres d’Arles is an
observatory of artistic practices. Our festival
plays an active role in revealing trends and
talents. Artists need financial support not just to
stage their exhibitions, but beforehand, to help
them fund the production of their projects. That
is why new creations have a key place in the
programme. From awards to residencies, the
Rencontres d’Arles now has a veritable arsenal of
financial aid for production. This year, we have
strengthened it by creating a residency. The first
recipient is photographer Stéphanie Solinas.
The Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, now
entering its second year, identifies the most relevant
dummy books when they are still in the planning
stages and funds the winner’s publication. Yann
Gross, its first recipient, is publishing
The Jungle Book, a vast Amazonian epic. His project
is continuing as an installation, The Jungle Show.
The Rencontres d’Arles has handed out the Discovery
Award for over a decade. The idea is simple: five
recognised figures from the art world nominate
two artists each; parity has been the rule since
2015. We produce exhibitions for each of them
and a jury of professionals votes for the winner,
who receives €5 000 to continue his or her work.
Lastly, the Photo Folio Reviews gives awards
to five very young artists with promising
projects. The festival produces a show of works
by the winner. This year, it is an exhibition
of photographs by Piero Martinello.
In search of the other photography
Images are their words. Whether they produce or
borrow them, it is not just the gesture that shapes the
artists’ works, but the idea of activation. The artists
appropriate anonymous images, take them out of
the context in which they were produced, activate
them in the field of art, share them with the public by
offering a new interpretation and divert them from
the purposes for which they were originally intended.
The contamination of the vernacular image is
now widespread. An artist, Agnès Geoffroy, and
a photography historian, Julie Jones, teamed up
to examine the practice. Their exhibition, Where
the Other Rests, reveals the itineraries of images—
shifts in nature, value and uses. The show pays
tribute to a generation of artists who collect and
awaken forgotten images borrowed from others.
The study of popular culture also offers a huge
iconographic repertory—often, anonymous images
whose initial purpose was primarily utilitarian:
illustrating a magazine, publicising a film or
documenting daily life. Today, collectors, artists,
historians and institutions are increasingly interested
in these low-quality images, this other photography.
Examples include director Sébastien Lifshitz and the
astonishing pictures of transvestites he collected over
a 30-year period (the Sincerely Queer exhibition);
Thomas Mailaender and Marc Bruckert’s contrasting
perspectives on the stupid and nasty archives of
Hara Kiri; and the history of the Camarguais Western,
from Joë Hamman holding up the train between
Arles and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1910) to a
galloping, singing Johnny Hallyday in Pour Moi la
Vie Va Commencer (D’où Viens-tu Johnny?, 1963).
We tell the story with the Musée de la Camargue.
Africa pop !
The festival looks kindly upon youth and new
practices but is also receptive to the world and
sets its sights on other places. This year, talented
photographers and curators showcase an
unexpected, surprising, funny, pop Africa at the 47th
Rencontres. Aida Muluneh, the artistic director of
Addis Foto Fest—the Addis Ababa photo festival—
joins the Discovery Award nominating team and
defends the work of Sarah Waiswa and Nader Adem.
Through works by approximately 10 artists,
Azu Nwagbogu, director of the LagosPhoto
festival, looks into the Nollywood film studios’
influence on African photography. In Maud
Sulter's photomontages, however, African and
European cutures collide. Lastly, Richard Minier,
Thomas Mondo and Madé Taounza tell us the
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amazing story of Las Maravillas. The Malian
music group becomes a wonderful pretext to
revisit the swinging ambiance of 1960s Bamako
immortalised by the great Malick Sidibé.
RIP
Despite the deaths of Lucien Clergue and Michel
Tournier, who both founded the Rencontres d’Arles
together with Jean-Maurice Rouquette, our festival
is alive and well after 47 years. It is thriving because
the same determination, the same passion and the
same desire to stand up for photography and artists
together drives the whole Rencontres d’Arles team.
Arles and the surrounding area will be photography’s
standard-bearers again this summer.
A creative residency in Arles
Since 2015, during winter, the Rencontres d’Arles
invite an artist to investigate Arles and its environs
and provide the production and exhibition means
necessary for the creation of an exhibition within
the festival. This year artist Stéphanie Solinas will
present, for the 47th edition of the festival, a project
anchored in the Arles region: she focused her
attention on the former Lustucru factory and the
journey of its ‘halle’, a massive steel structure, from
Marseille to Arles.
This year, the Rencontres d’Arles and the
École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie
– which, since 2011, has annually invited an artist
to undertake an educational residency within its
premises – wished to join forces in order to create a
shared residency, both a space for artistic creation
and for educational dialogue.
Stéphanie Solinas, present within the school,
hence accompanied young foreign artists
welcomed in 2015-2016 at the ENSP as part of an
international programme of research and creation:
Josni Bélanger (Canada), Diana Baidal (Spain),
Jian Luo (China), Natalia Pakula (Poland),
Renata Pires (Brazil), Melanie Williams (England)
and Zhyyao Wu (China), supervised by the head of
the programme Gilles Saussier, artist and teacher
at the ENSP. Complementary to the project,
the FRAC-PACA committed to acquiring a
group of works by Stéphanie Solinas, while the
Carré d’Art Museum of Contemporary Art in Nîmes
extends Solinas’ exhibition in Arles through the
presentation of Dominique Lambert.
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programme
With approximately 40 exhibitions, the Rencontres d’Arles
offer a general survey of contemporary photographic
creation and practices. The relationships suggested within
the programme are at the core of the different sequences.
They enable the identification of categories and, year
after year, favour a thorough exploration of evolutions in
photography.
p.12-16
the discovery
award
p.21-23
WESTERN STORIES
camarguais western
bernard plossu
western colors
p.24-26
monsters & co.
scary monsters!
a brief history of monsters in film
charles fréger
yokainoshima
frank berger
stephanie kiwitt
SARA GALBIATI, PETER HELLES ERIKSEN
and TOBIAS SELNæS MARKUSSEN
phenomena, a close encounter with
a reality of aliens and ufos
mouna mekouar preSENTs
p.27-29
florian ebner preSENTs
basma alsharif
daisuke yokota
stéphanie moisdon preSENTs
marie angeletti
christodoulos panayiotou
aida muluneh preSENTs
nader adem
sarah waiswa
stefano stoll preSENTs
beni bischof
sara cwynar
africa pop
Maud Sulter
syrcas
swinging bamako
the fabulous story of las maravillas de mali
tear my bra
DRAMA AND FANTASY IN NOLLYWOOD
MOVIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON
CULTURAL AND VISUAL STORYTELLING IN AFRICA
p.30-33
platforms
of the visible
p.17-20
New approaches to
documentary photography
STREET
street photography revisited
laia abril
a history of misogyny,
chapter one: on abortion
sid grossman
from document to revelation,
his photographs and legacy
piero martinello
radicalia
ethan levitas/garry winogrand
radical relation
peter mitchell
a new refutation of the viking 4 space mission
eamonn doyle
end.
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
joÃo pina
operation condor
STÉPHANIE SOLINAS
the method of places
p.34-37
after war
yan morvan
battlefields
alexandre guirkinger
the maginot line
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don mccullin
NOTHING BUT BLUE SKies
LOOKING BACK AT THE MEDIA’S
IMAGE OF 11 SEPTEMBER
p. 38-40
p.53-55
arles books
COSMOS-ARLES BOOKS
New editorial practices
the 2016 book award
I AM WRITING
TO YOU FROM A
FAr OFF COUNTRY
LUMA RENCONTRES
DUMMY BOOK AWARD
arles 2016
yann gross
the jungle show
associated
PROGRAMME
p.41-44
rereading
photography in a different
light
fabulous failures
The art of embracing serendipity and mistakes
where the other rests
reawakening forgotten images
alinka echeverrÍa
nicephora
P.56-60
Kazuo Ōno by Eikoh Hosoe
and William Klein
Pas de deux
HANS SILVESTer
the bench
katerina jebb
DEUS EX MACHINA
white gestures in the wilderness
works from the CENTRE NATIONAL
DES ARTS PLASTIQUES
p.45-47
art research #5
ad vitam ÆTERNAM. from the
treated man to the enhanced man
quirky collections
SYSTEMATICALLY OPEN ?
new forms for contemporary image making
sincerely queer
SÉBASTIEN LIFSHITZ Collection
Dominic Nahr
fractured state
LADY LIBERTY
the photographic making of an icon
p.61-63
singular!
hara kiri photo
p.48-50
outside the frame
maurizio cattelan & pierpaolo ferrari
toilet paper
augustin rebetez
the cardboard museum
P.51-52
Emergences
olympus engages in a
photographic conversation
olivier culmann/pauline rousseau
Corinne Mercadier/Barnabé Moinard
Klavdij Sluban/Florian Maurer
an unusual attention
three 2016 graduate students
from the ENSP
grand arles
express
avignon, collection lambert
andres serrano
torture
nÎmes, carré d'art
stéphanie solinas
dominique lambert
marseille, villa méditerranée
alfred seiland
imperium romanum
p.64-67
opening week
day
night
11
p.68-74
EDUCATION
& training
photography workshops
clicks and classes
educational domain
online media library
p75-79
practical INFORMATION
p.80-93
partners
p.94-100
royalty free images
ITINERANT EXHIBITIONS FROM THE
RENCONTRES D’ARLES 2015
Total Records, THE GREAT ADVENTURE
OF ALBUM COVER PHOTOGRAPHY
> Fotomuseum Wintherthur, Wintherthur,
Switzerland, 26 February - 16 May 2016.
> Robert Capa Contemporary Photography
Center, Budapest, Hungary, June-October 2016.
> C/O Berlin, Germany, 3 December
2016 - 5 February 2017.
Thierry Bouët, Affaires privées
> XXI International Month of Photography,
Photobiennale 2016, Moscow Museum of
Modern Art, Russia, 14 March - 17 April 2016.
Walker Evans, Anonymous
> Festival Fotografia Europea 2016, Palazzo
Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 6 May - 10 July 2016.
MMM. Matthieu Chedid meets Martin Parr
> Philharmonie de Paris - Cité de la Musique,
4 October 2016 - 20 February 2017.
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
the
discovery
award
Supported by the LUMA Foundation since 2002,
this is the Rencontres d’Arles’ top prize. The idea is
simple: five preeminent figures from the art world
each nominate two artists. Gender parity has been the
rule since 2015. We stage an exhibition for all of the
nominees and a jury of professionals votes to choose a
winner, who is awarded €25,000 to continue his or her
work.
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the discovery award
Grande Halle
The Discovery Award is given to a photographer or an artist using photography whose work has recently been
or deserves to be discovered. Every year since 2002, each of the five nominators invited by the Rencontres
d’Arles has nominated two photographers, 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 Théâtre Antique. The 2016 nominators:
- Florian Ebner, head of the Photographic Collection at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany;
- Mouna Mekouar, independent exhibition curator;
- Stéphanie Moisdon, art critic, exhibition curator, and co-director of Le Consortium, a contemporary
art centre in Dijon;
- Aida Muluneh, founder of Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;
- Stefano Stoll, director of the Festival Images in Vevey, Switzerland.
The LUMA Foundation has been the exclusive partner of the Discovery Award since 2002.
Artists presented by florian
ebner
Born 1970 in Regensburg, Germany. Lives and works in Essen, Germany.
Florian Ebner studied photography at the Ecole Nationale de la Photograhie d’Arles and Art History at
Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He is head of the Photographic Collection at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, since the
end of 2012. From 2009 to 2012, he was director of the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, and in 2008-2009
he was in charge of the Photographic Collection at the Berlinische Galerie. Prior to that, he taught photography
at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. In 2015, he was curator of the German Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial.
Frank berger
Born 1972, Leipzig, Germany. Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
Weissenfels
Much of my photographic work consists of serial slide projections. The photographic interest lies not in the
decisive moment but in spaces-times manifested in the succession of images. The series focus on urban scenes
and scenarios. I photograph people lingering for several hours from the same viewpoint. The images, a successive
projection of analogue slides, follow one another without fading. Weissenfels was done at the entrance to a large
industrial slaughterhouse over the course of a day. The comings and goings of vehicles indirectly attest to what is
happening inside. Spanning 20 years, the installation consists of three projections done with cameras that follow
the technological developments over that period.
Exhibition curator: Florian Ebner.
stephanie kiwitt
Born 1972, Bonn, Germany. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Màj/My
I borrowed the title of my new work, Màj/My, from a Prague department store that was called ‘Màj’ (‘May’ in Czech)
from the 1970s to the fall of the Communist regime before becoming ‘My’ in 2009. The two words refer to very
different economic and political systems, but share a common sound that became a marketing strategy.
The Socialist May turned into a neoliberal possessive pronoun in the first person singular. Without changing the
word’s sound, this formal trick allows the new name to replace the old one while enabling the old one’s resonance to
persist. My photographic stance wavers between documentary neutrality and a subjective construction. My pictures
of ads, full or empty shelves, new wares or second-hand items in Prague are compared and respond to each other.
Each image resonates with the next.
Exhibition curator: Florian Ebner.
stephaniekiwitt.com
Artists presented by Mouna
Mekouar
Born 1980, Casablanca, Morocco. Lives and works in Paris, France.
A graduate of the Institut National du Patrimoine and a PhD student in Art History, Mouna Mekouar is an
independent exhibition curator. She has curated and co-curated several exhibitions, including Daoud-Aoulad Syad
(MEP, Paris, 2015), Formes Simples (Centre PompidouMetz, 2014-2015), Anywhere, anywhere out of the world,
a carte blanche dedicated to Philippe Parreno (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013), Chefs-d’œuvre ? (the inaugural
exhibition at Centre PompidouMetz, 2010) and Roger Parry (Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2007). She also contributed
to two editions of Photoquai (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 2009 and 2011) by selecting photographs from the
Maghreb and Middle East. She has written a number of essays for exhibition catalogues and specialised reviews,
such as Études photographiques, Images Re-vues, Patrimoines, Revue de l’art and artpress.
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bAsma alsharif
Born 1983 in Kuwait. Lives and works in Los Angeles, United States.
My work moves between cinema and installation. Employing photography, film, video, sound, language, and
performance, I use the experience of visual communication as an intuitive function that can reveal the fallibility of
our perception and the failure of history. I engage with politics on a visceral level through pieces characterized by
their immersive, lyrical qualities. Creating familiar environments that lure us into unsettling experiences, my pieces
projects a sense of being comfortable and foreign all at once. The natural environment is an obsession for me:
we survive as a because of nature, we are actively destroying our environment, and we imagine ourselves to
inherently belong here. My images relates our own precarious, persistent existence on this earth.
Exhibition curator: Mouna Mekouar.
basmalsharif.com
DAISUKE YOKOTA
Born 1983, Saitama, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
When I made the shift from film to digital some years ago, it dawned on me that certain technical and financial
limits had been pushed back and I could take many shots. But at the same time, the consciousness I brought to
each of my works seemed to weaken. When I see all these files saved in such huge numbers, they always look
different than what I had imagined. Since I often photograph at night, I rely on senses other than sight, such as
hearing. Photography sometimes manages to turn the spectacle of the present moment into a recollection, but it
fails to capture my memory or emotions, as though filtering my field of vision. I tend to see the world through those
effects. That’s why it seems indispensable for me to make those invisible things visible.
Exhibition curator: Mouna Mekouar.
daisukeyokota.net
Artists presented by stéphanie
mOisdon
Born 1967, Paris. Lives and works in Paris, France and Lausanne, Switzerland.
Stéphanie Moisdon is an art critic, exhibition curator, and co-director of Le Consortium, a contemporary art
centre in Dijon. She is a teacher at the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL), a university specialized in
art and design, and the co-founder of Frog magazine, with Eric Troncy. Stéphanie Moisdon regularly writes for
Beaux Arts Magazine, Artforum, art press and Purple. She has organised a number of exhibitions, including, most
recently, 1984-1997. La décennie (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2014-2015) and Sturtevant Sturtevant (Madre, Naples,
2015), and curated the 9th Biennale de Lyon (2007). Since 2006, she has directed an alternative, itinerant school,
L’École de Stéphanie, which is associated with various artistic institutions. She has written several books, including
Jean-Luc Verna, Les Roches Noires (2014), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2002), and Stéphanie Moisdon (2007),
an anthology of her own critical texts.
marie angeletti
Born 1984, Marseille, France. Lives and works in Berlin, Allemagne.
Marie Angeletti uses photography to transcribe experiences, existing systems or what surrounds the image
itself. The narrative background suggests more than it explains, letting the images act as surfaces of projection.
Encounters and commissions are usually the starting point of her work. Angeletti uses photography with a flexibility
that characterises the digital circulation of images and a fluidity that results from modes of existence. Those images
lie at the crossroads of two trajectories. One, analytical and aesthetic, explores how art circulates and is consumed
in all its forms, from the freest to the most institutionalised. The other, more existential, is about everyday roaming
that seeks the point where the individual and the collective meet.
Exhibition curator: Stephanie Moisdon.
christodoulos panayiotou
Born 1978, Limassol, Cyprus. Lives and works in Limassol, Cyprus, and Paris, France.
Christodoulos Panayiotou’s approach is resolutely multidisciplinary, nomadic, and synoptic. His screenings,
exhibition slides, and performance-readings include architecture as well as choreography, text and image, ancient
history and its hidden stories. The invention of archaeology plays a central role for him, providing an opportunity to
create complex narrative structures involving time and emergence of new spaces for the imagination. This invention merges with the contemporary question of the production of forms, rituals, documents, fictions, and ruins.
Stéphanie Moisdon
Exhibition curator: Stéphanie Moisdon.
christodoulospanayiotou.com
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Artists presented by aida
muluneh
Born 1974, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Lives and works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Aida Muluneh is a photographer, cultural entrepreneur and owner of Desta For Africa (DFA). A graduate of
Howard University’s department of Communication in Film (Washington DC), she is also an artist.
Her works are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (Washington DC),
the Hood Museum (Hanover, United States) and the Museum of Biblical Art (New York City). She is the 2007
recipient of the Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie’s European Union Prize (Bamako, Mali) as well as
the 2010 winner of the CRAF International Award of Photography (Spilimbergo, Italy). She is the founder of
Addis Foto Fest, East Africa’s first international photography festival.
addisfotofest.com
Nader adem
Born 1984, Saudi Arabia. Lives and works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Life as a Disabled Person
The collection of photographs in Life as a Disabled Person presents the portraits and personal accounts of ten
individuals living with different physical disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The works tackle each individual’s
resilience, determination, hope and triumph over social and physical limitations. The series’ poignant style reflects
the challenges and perseverance of the disabled community in my country. By shedding light on an often overlooked social group, I equally tell the story of individuals striving to challenge and surmount the general perception
of their impaired abilities.
Exhibition curator: Aida Muluneh.
saraH waiswa
Born 1980, Kampala Uganda. Lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya.
Stranger in Familiar Land
Stranger in Familiar Land is a series that looks at the persecution of albinos in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, for
example, they are hunted for their body parts, which are believed to possess magical powers. People fear what
they do not understand and, because of this fear, people with albinism continue to be at the receiving end of ridicule and persecution. This project groups together various portraits of an albino woman set against the backdrop
of the Kibera slums, which are a metaphor for my turbulent vision of the outside orld. The series illustrates the life of
an albino who is forced to face challenges emanating from both the sun and society. The series also explores how
the sense of non-belonging has led her to wander and exist in a dreamlike state.
Exhibition curator: Aida Muluneh.
sarahwaiswa.com
Artists presented by STEFANO
STOLL
Born 1974, Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in Vevey, Switzerland.
Stefano Stoll is the director of the Festival Images in Vevey, Switzerland. This visual arts biennale makes a special
feature of monumental open-air installations. Every two years it presents photographic projects created especially
for the festival in the streets, parks, museums, and galleries of the city. In this context, Stoll is also responsible for
an ‘off space’ dedicated to contemporary photography (Espace Quai1), as well as the Grand Prix International
de Photographie de Vevey. While still a student, he cofounded and codirected Switzerland’s first photography
festival: Les Journées Photographiques de Bienne. He was also Vevey’s head of cultural affairs from 2004 to 2015.
As an author, he is a member of AICA Press and writes on cultural policy, art, and photography.
images.ch
beni bischof
Born 1976, Switzerland. Lives and works with his wife and son in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
I work unrestrainedly and intuitively. Playfully, I condense the grotesque, ridiculous, banal, and absurd in a cryptic
and ironic manner using a wide variety of media. In addition to drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures, and installations, my self-published magazine Lasermagazin, which was launched in 2005, attests my eruptive creative drive.
The banality of everyday life is disregarded, as are the dramas of the political agenda. I find my material in cheap
novels, fashion magazines, advertisements, and the virtual world. I want to break the precious illusion of supposed
exclusivity and present an abysmal view of society. My work develops fluidly and explosively. My pictures depict
life in all its joy and misery, confusion and burlesques, which I playfully portray, in the blackest of tones, in pictures.
Exhibition curator: Stefano Stoll.
benibischof.ch
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sara cwynar
Born 1985, Vancouver, Canada. Lives and works in New York, United States.
FLAT DEATH
I assemble images from objects and found photographs that court feelings of time passing. I am interested in
dated commercial images; in the failure, with time, of their visual trickery; in the waning of their seductive
powers. My work highlight how the once familiar becomes foreign; how the fetishized object can lose its luster;
how glamour can fade. The works impart an uncanny sense of a lost world of images that I have collected and
recalibrated to present as evidence that images never die, they just float somewhere between the traditional realm
of the analog and the Internet, or between complex emotional attachments and kitsch.
Exhibition curator: Stefano Stoll.
saracwynar.com
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
STREET
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
REVISITED
The street and city as playground.
Photographers have been practicing street
photography since its emergence. In recent years, the
genre has witnessed a significant renewal.
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sid grossman
espace van gogh
Born 1913, New York, United States. Died 1955, Provincetown, United States.
Morris Huberland (1909-2003), Leon Levinstein (1910-1988), Sid Grossman, Rebecca Lepkoff
(1916-2014), Arthur Leipzig (1918-2014), Sy Kattelson (1923), David Vestal (1924-2013),
Harold Feinstein (1931-2015)
From Document to revelation. His photographs and legacy
Sid Grossman is an important but long-overlooked figure in modern American photography. Before his death in
1955, at the age of 42, he created a powerful and influential body of work. Grossman began as a social-documentary photographer and helped found the New York Photo League in 1936. In the spirit of the League’s left-leaning
politics, he photographed in the working-class neighborhoods of Chelsea and Harlem until the mid-1940s, when
Grossman’s vision became more personal and subjective. Radical in its day, this work exemplified the expressionistic energy of the ‘New York School’ of the 1950s. In 1949, the FBI blacklisted Grossman as a communist ‘
subversive’. This exhibition is the most comprehensive look at Grossman’s artistic achievement and influence in at least
35 years, and his first exhibit in Europe. It includes rare vintage prints from the Grossman estate and from noted
public and private collections, as well as works by his leading students.
Keith F. Davis
Exhibition curators: Keith F. Davis, Howard Greenberg, and Bob Shamis.
Exhibition organised by The Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, in collaboration with the Rencontres d’Arles.
Publication: Keith F. Davis, The Life and Work of Sid Grossman, Steidl/Howard Greenberg Library, 2016.
ethan levitas/garry winogrand
grande halle
Born 1971, New York, United States. Lives and works in New York, United States.
Born 1928, New York, United States. Died 1984, Tijuana, Mexico.
RADICAL RELATION
Pairing the pioneering and complementary oeuvres of Ethan Levitas and Garry Winogrand, this exhibition
re-examines the street photography through its own language and terms in order to situate it properly within the
open field of contemporary art practice. Hailed by John Szarkowski as the central photographer of his generation,
Winogrand’s contribution to street photography is widely acknowledged, if only partly understood. An inheritor of
Winogrand’s unfinished legacy, Levitas has, over the past decade, developed and extended the practice of street
photography by defining it as a relation of parts—the sum of which discloses a dissonance between visibility and
appearance. What does it mean to look? Can meaning be created through the act of looking? Among Levitas’s
bodies of work, we can more clearly comprehend the significance of Winogrand’s endeavor, and see a fulfillment
of its promise.
Joshua Chuang
Exhibition curator: Joshua Chuang.
With the cooperation of Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco), the Center for Creative Photography (Tucson), and Gallerie Jean-Kenta Gauthier (Paris).
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peter mitchell
grande halle
Born 1943, Manchester, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Leeds, United Kingdom.
A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission
In the mid-seventies, the stationary Viking Landers were the first to land on planet Mars. Though the alien
landscape was magnificent, there were no canals or skeletons or wind-blown ruined dwellings or sand-filled
swimming pools. Today, not a single trace remains of Viking Landers 3 and 4. But myth (and conspiracy theories)
have it that an alien survey was commissioned of planet Earth (possibly triggered by reverberations from the fate of
Viking Lander 4), remnants of which have been captured and published from time to time. Oddly, the photographs
show no great wonders of civilisations. However, a certain monotonous, low-level aesthetic pervades the images
with a degree of continuity, suggesting that these things are common. In the Earthly vernacular these photographs
‘are of Nowheresville. Yet, for some people, they are the centre of the universe’. Usually they call it Home.
Rudi Thoemmes et Peter Mitchell
The exhibition was originally presented at the Impressions Gallery of Photography, York,, in November 1979, and curated by Val Williams.
Praise to Directors Sheila Ross, Education Gallery, Leeds; Julian Spalding, Graves Gallery, Sheffield; Sue Grayson/Aaron Scharf, Serpentine Gallery, London; Val
Williams, Impressions Gallery of Photography, York City; and Martin Parr.
strangelyfamiliar.co.uk
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ethan levitas
Frame 21, Photographs in 3 Acts, 2012.
courtesy of the artiste and of galerie Jean-Kenta Gauthier, Paris.
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eamonn doyle
espace van gogh
Born 1969, Dublin, Ireland. Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
END.
End. seeks out the driving forces of both photographer and subject in an exhibition that brings together three
bodies of work—i, ON and End.—exploring the local streets of Doyle’s native Dublin. Though apparently the
concluding work of a trilogy, End. actively opens up the heart of the whole. i presents unknowable street figures
enveloped entirely in the interior landscape of their location. ON’s black & white giants convulse across their own
image, bracing the hard Dublin light. End. as a sequence of events revealing a city whose concrete is as plastic
as the movement of its inhabitants. Created as both installation and publication, End. is a collaborative work by
Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney and David Donohoe. Built around the photographs of Doyle, it also features drawing
and sound by Sweeney and Donohoe.
Niall Sweeney
Exhibtion curator: Niall Sweeney
Publications: i, D1, 2014 ; ON, D1, 2015 ; End., D1, 2016.
eamonndoyle.com
christian marclay
grande halle
Born 1955, California, United States. Lives and works in New York, United States.
Christian Marclay is showing a series of six new silent, projected animations along with Pub Crawl, a sound and
video installation from 2014, each presented for the first time in France. Unlike Pub Crawl, in which Marclay coaxed
sound from empty glasses, bottles and cans found abandoned on the streets of East London, the new videos are
silent animations comprised of thousands of still photographs. This time the artist focuses our attention on small
detritus littering the streets such as cigarette butts, bottle caps, chewing gum, cotton buds, lids and straws.
When played back in rapid succession, the static pictures give the illusion of motion as in a flip-book:
burnt cigarettes grow back; colorful bottle caps flash and blend; hairy cotton buds wiggle; blobs of chewing gum
divide and multiply like cells. The flickering of images in rapid succession recalls early cinema. Marclay’s documentation of the discarded and unsightly is set in-motion, transforming trash into aural and visual poetry.
Exhibition produced with support from the White Cube Gallery, London.
With support from the Swiss Confederation.
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
western
stories
Westerns, with their frontier tales, rugged scenery and
wide-open spaces, were also shot in the Camargue.
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camarguais western
église des frères -prêcheurs
Before the First World War, pioneers of silent film directed the first westerns in the Camargue. This incredible
story, which turned the Rhône Delta into the set of many early 20th-century films, began in 1905, when cattle
rancher Folco de Baroncelli attended a performance of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Paris. That inspired him
to ask director Jean Durand to shoot a series of films—considered the earliest westerns—in the Camargue.
The village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer as well as the farmhands and cattle from Baroncelli’s ranch participated in
many movies until the war broke out in 1914. When peace returned, so did film crews. The Camargue lent directors of adventure movies its natural setting, light and people to serve as extras. Through film screenings, posters,
objects and photographs of sets, the exhibition takes a look back at this saga.
Estelle Rouquette
Exhibition curators: Estelle Rouquette and Sam Stourdzé.
Exhibition coproduced by the Musée de la Camargue and the Rencontres d'Arles.
Publication: Western camarguais, Éditions Actes Sud, 2016.
The exhibition closes on 28 August.
bernard plossu
salle henri comte
Born 1945, Dalat, Vietnam. Lives and works in La Ciotat, France.
western colors
Bernard Plossu’s last official visit to Arles was for a 1987 group show of work by photographers using the
Fresson process. At the age of 71, Western Colors is his first solo exhibition. Rewind: in 1966, Plossu arrived in
San Francisco. The 21-year-old longhaired beatnik had a deep desire to experience and live in the American West
that had captured his imagination. He was more excited about the Indians than the cowboys. In his eyes, they
symbolise revolt, freedom, space and nature—a lost paradise to which he kept returning on hikes or car trips in
Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and California until 1985, when he definitively returned to France. Armed with
a Nikkormat with a single 50-mm lens, Plossu shot his own colour Western. The shots are still, soft and empathically
and enthusiastically framed. Plossu is in his element. He not only captures his dreams but breathes life into them.
He shows nothing. He is not a reporter. He constructs no series nor pursues any theme. He breathes, photographs,
walks, photographs, drives, photographs. Westerns forever!
Stéphane Brasca
Exhibition curator: Stéphane Brasca.
Publication: Western Colors, Éditions Textuel, 2016.
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Claude Schwartz
Johnny on the set of the film D'où viens-tu Johnny ? (1963).
Courtesy if the Claude Schwartz Photographe association.
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
monsters
& co.
From cinema to Japanese folklore and Roswell’s
extraterrestrials, monsters embody our fears.
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Scary monsters!
grande halle
A brief history of monsters in film
Alternative genres such as science fiction, fantasy or utopia spawn stories that feed surprising reservoirs of images.
Contemporary memory delves into them without preconceived ideas, shining a light on its fears and fantasies.
For example, genre cinema—and, more commonly, bad genres—abounds with weird works that engender certain myths of modernity. Decadent characters—giants, vampires, zombies, extraterrestrials, mythological creatures, abnormal and deformed beings—move about amongst humans the best they can. The Scary Monsters!
exhibition confronts us with the idea of the norm, the relational foundations that make us part of a group or separate
us from it. Eschewing the clinical process of a learned bestiary, it is based not on demonstration but on monstration.
The show’s approach is not limited to the contemplation of abnormality, but also asks us to visit the fringes of what
tends to make us more or less human.
Marc Atallah and Frédéric Jaccaud
Exhibition curators: Marc Atallah and Frédéric Jaccaud.
Exhibition produced in collaboration with the Maison d'Ailleurs, Museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary voyages.
charles fréger
église des trinitaires
Born 1975, Bourges, France. Lives and works in Rouen, France.
YOKAINOSHIMA
In 2013, just after finishing his European tour of winter masquerades (Wilder Mann), Charles Fréger began a
photography project exploring Japan’s masked ritual figures. Through an inventory of masked figures, he paints
the face of Japan’s countryside. Yokai, oni, tengu and kappa, which can be translated as ghosts, monsters, ogres
and goblins, are ritual figures imagined by man and embodied during festivals and ceremonies to try and tame the
elements and find meaning in natural events. Presenting a variety of forms existing in Japan, the series undeniably
achieves a documentary objective. Yet Fréger no longer seeks the realism of situations or comprehensiveness.
Yokainoshima (‘the island of the Yôkai’) has become part of the personal cartography Fréger continues drawing
one series after another, made up of lands inhabited by a humanity that is earthly and otherworldly at the same
time.
Raphaëlle Stopin
With support from the Fondation d'Entreprise Hermès.
Publication : Yokainoshima, éditions Actes Sud, 2016.
charlesfreger.com
Sara Galbiati,
Peter Helles Eriksen and
Tobias SelnÆs Markussen
new space!
GROUND CONTROL
Sara Galbiati, born 1981, Aarhus, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Peter Helles Eriksen, born 1984, Aarhus, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Tobias Selnaes Markussen, born 1982, Copenhagen, Denmark. Lives and works in
Copenhagen, Denmark.
PHENOMENA, A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A REALITY OF ALIENS AND UFOS
What is it that lies behind UFO phenomena? Is it just a commercially profitable story, a delusion with social
consequences, a religious myth, or even a physical phenomenon? Through an investigative journey through the
states of Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona, Tobias Selnaes Markussen, Sara Galbiati, and Peter Helles Eriksen have
documented an alternative religion—a religion where neither God nor mankind is at the centre of the universe.
The exhibition examines the human need for faith through extensive research and collected data on the modern
myth of ETs and UFOs. It strives to achieve an understanding of this modern aspect of humanity's eternal search for
substance and enormous fear of meaninglessness.
Publication: Phenomena, André Frère Éditions, 2016.
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charles fréger
MEJISHI, Ogi, Sadogashima, Niigata prefecture.
courtesy of the artist.
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
africa pop
Talented photographers and curators show us a pop
and offbeat Africa full of humour and surprises.
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maud sulter
chapelle de la charité
Born 1960, Glasgow, Scotland. Died 2008.
syrcas
Throughout her career and across different media, Sulter has questioned the lack of representation of black women
in the histories of art and photography, and critically investigated the complex experiences of the African diaspora
in European history and culture over the past six hundred years. Syrcas aims to revive the forgotten history of the
genocide of black Europeans during the Holocaust through the technique of photomontage. Sulter juxtaposes
canonical imagery from classical European art history with African art objects, overlaid on vintage postcards of
picturesque, unspecified Alpine landscapes. As multi-layered collage works, the photomontages’ visual tropes are
intimately tied up with Nazi ideology and questions of racial purity as well as African presences in Europe, while the
raw montage of the various visual elements serves as reference to children’s scrapbooks.
Exhibition curator: Mark Sealy.
Exhibition produced by Autograph ABP, Londres.
SWINGING BAMAKO
Couvent Saint- césaire
The fabulous story of Las Maravillas de Mali
Abdourahmane Sakaly (1926-1988), Malick Sidibé (1936), Sadio Diakité (1929),
Karen Paulina Biswell (1983)
In 1960, Mali became independent and, in the middle of the Cold War, chose to join the socialist bloc and
definitively break with its colonial past. In this political context, seven young Malian students were sent to Cuba in 1964.
A year later, they formed a band called Las Maravillas de Mali, which, despite themselves, symbolised alliances
with the Eastern bloc and represented the joyous face of a ‘proletarian internationalism’ that Cuba aspired to lead.
Swinging Bamako recounts an odyssey between Bamako and Havana worthy of Back to the Future, a multi-sensory
journey mixing history with a small and a capital ‘h’: the birth of postcolonial Africa, a continent with much at stake,
and one of its all-time greatest groups. For, to understand today’s Africa, it is necessary to delve back into its past.
Richard Minier, Thomas Mondo et Madé Taounza
Exhibition curators: Richard Minier, Thomas Mondo and Madé Taounza.
TEAR MY BRA
new space!
GROUND CONTROL
DRAMA AND FANTASY IN NOLLYWOOD MOVIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON
CULTURAL AND VISUAL STORYTELLING IN AFRICA
Antoine Tempé (1960), Iké Udé (1964), Uche Okpa Iroha (1972), Joana Choumali (1974),
Zina Saro-Wiwa (1976), François Beaurain (1976), Andrew Esiebo (1978), Nicolas Henry (1980),
Omar Victor Diop (1980), Kudzanai Chiurai (1981), Karl Ohiri (1983), Adeola Olagunju (1987)
Nollywood is the colloquial name for Nigeria’s booming commercial film industry. A cross-cultural phenomenon,
with thousands of films being produced each year and billions of dollars being circulated, Nollywood films have
made a big impact on film history and on African contemporary visual culture. While limited-budgets, poorly
rendered fake blood, and bizarre manifestations of the classic ‘boy meets girl’ plot are the trademark trifecta
of Nollywood films, the audience for these productions is continuously growing. The success of this industry
illustrates that there is not only a demand, but also an affinity and perhaps even a contribution to the globalization
of aesthetics, particularly those of West Africa. The title of the exhibition is a tribute to traditional Nollywood titles,
at times completely ambiguous and dramatic.
Exhibition curator: Azu Nwagbogu assisted by Maria Pia Bernardoni.
new space!
GROUND CONTROL
This year, the Rencontres d’Arles open a new space, a brownfield located at the train station: Ground Control.
Exhibitions all summer long, evening events, deckchairs, concerts... An ephemeral bar — open and curious —
dreamt up by the Rencontres d'Arles and Ground Control.
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Malick Sidibé
look at me! , 1962.
courtesy of the artist and MAGNIN-A gallery, Paris.
Arles
2016
PLATFORMS
OF THE
VISIBLE
NEW APPROACHES TO
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Investigation as a photographic topic and the
photographer as a detective combing through photo
archives.
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laia abril
magasin électrique
Born 1986, Barcelona, Spain. Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
a history of misogyny, chapter one: on abortion
Today, safe and efficient means of abortion exist, yet 47000 women die due to botched abortions, every year.
Millions of unwilling women across countries and religions are blocked from abortion technologies by law and
social coercion, and forced to carry pregnancies to term. Many are minors and rape victims, their pregnancy is not
viable or their health is at risk. Laia Abril's project On abortion documents and conceptualizes these dangers and
damages caused by women's lack of legal, safe and free access to abortion. As she weaves her net of questions
around ethics and morality, Abril also creates a series of meditative visual and textual manifestations of the social
triggers, stigmas, and taboos around abortion that have remained invisible until now.
laiaabril.com
WINNER OF THE 2015 PHOTO FOLIO REVIEW
PIERO MARTINELLO
new space!
Born 1985, Schio, Italy. Lives and works between Milan and the North-East of Italy.
mistral
RADICALIA
‘Radical’ is something ‘acting in depth; concerning an issue beginning with its essential principles’, according
to Salvatore Battaglia’s definition in the Grande dizionario della lingua italiana. With this as his starting point,
photographer Piero Martinello travelled around Italy in search of women and men who—each in their own way
and for different reasons—have embraced radical choices and lifestyles. Fools, ravers, criminals, devouts and
cloistered nuns: Martinello’s subjects come to life in a series of portraits in which the photographic medium
appears at times in its pure form, at others grafted in items of vernacular iconography (passport pictures, holy
pictures, mug shots). Everything comes together in a concept album where the face becomes a prism through
which to investigate the human need to undertake extreme and unconventional life paths.
Art direction: Lorenzo Fanton.
Visual contributions by Enrica Casentini, Alberto Gobber, Luca Zamoc, Patrick Waterhouse, Ramon Pez and Alberto Sola. The project was made possible by the
LUZ Fellowship that LUZ Photo Agency granted Martinello in November 2012.
With support from YellowKorner.
joÃo pina
musée départemental arles antique
Born 1980, Lisbon, Portugal. Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Operation Condor
In 2005, photographer João Pina became acquainted with and began to research Operation Condor, a secret
military plan started in 1975, during the Cold War, by six Latin American countries: Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile,
Uruguay and Paraguay. Ruled by right-wing military dictatorships, these countries' governments intended to
eliminate political opponents and detractors.Those people were arrested, tortured and murdered. Many of them
remain ‘disappeared’. It took João Pina almost a decade to finish Operation Condor, which works as an eye
watching the effects that such long period of dictatorship caused to our society, to some survivors and
families who still have to live every day with deep traumas. All the photographs here act as an outcry frozen in time.
We are here before our own history. We can only wonder what kind of justice we want now.
Exhibition curator: Diogenes Moura.
Publication: Condor, Éditions du Sous-sol, 2016.
The exibition closes on 28 August.
joao-pina.com
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STÉPHANIE SOLINAS
Cloître Saint-Trophime
Born 1978, La Tronche, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
THE METHOD OF PLACES
Is it possible to travel back in time? Stéphanie Solinas, an artist who enjoys enigmas, has focused on austere
material: the ‘Lustucru’ hall in Arles, a building with a complex past and an unknown future, a forlorn vessel open
to the winds, abandoned on the city’s outskirts. How can its rich 110-year history and the density of the lives that
populated it be captured? How can its identity, rediscovered in 2006, be accessed? Like the ‘method of places’,
a classic technique combining architecture and memorisation to help the work of memory, Solinas explores
memory like a palace where thoughts, images and recollections, some of which remain hidden or hard to find,
are stored. Through this building’s story from the 19th to 21st century, from individual to collective history,
from colonisation to globalisation, Ms. Solinas asks us to take a look back as way of thinking about today and
shaping tomorrow.
Paula Aisemberg
Exhibition produced by the Rencontres d'Arles.
Stéphanie Solinas is the recipient of the new artist residency created this winter by the Rencontres d’Arles and the ENSP.
With support from FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
The exibition closes on 28 August.
Discover the Dominique Lambert exhibition by Stéphanie Solinas, an extension of the Arles’ exhibition, presented at Carrée d’Art in Nîmes from 5 July to 16
October 2016.
stephaniesolinas.com
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João Pina
From the Absurd series. Aircraft used by the Argentine military to dump left-wing militants still alive over
the Rio de la Plata and the Atlantic Ocean during the military dictatorship. Today, the airplane is used as an advertising
prop for a building supply store on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Esteban ECHEVERRIA, ARGENTINA, SEPTEMBER 2011.
Arles
2016
AFTER WAR
What is there left to see on a battlefield after the
fighting comes to and end? What traces can be left
by a line built to keep out invaders? How have artists
addressed September 11th in the past 15 years? What
does a renowned war photographer do when not
photographing war? We raise as many questions as we
attempt to answer.
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yan morvan
capitole
Born 1954 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
BATTLEFIELDS
Yan Morvan’s impression that media coverage of conflicts no longer boils down to anything more than infotainment and the mass consumption of images prompted him to orientate his work in a different direction and portray
the image and reality of war more thoughtfully. In the spring of 2004, he travelled around the world with his tripod
and Deardorff 20x25cm in search of places that have made history for 3 500 years. Do they still recount the past?
Mr. Morvan’s working conditions may not be the same as a photojournalist’s, but he actually continues
photographing war through its absence. This exhibition, which features 80 pictures, provides us with a thoughtprovoking glimpse of history.
Marco Zappone
Exhibition curator: Marco Zappone.
Publication: Champs de Bataille, Éditions Photosynthèses, 2015.
The exhibition closes on 11 September.
ALEXANDRE GUIRKINGER
magasin électrique
Born 1980, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
MAGINOT LINE
Burrows are fascinating because usually only the outline or threshold is known; the rest is left to the imagination.
On a symbolic level, the same is true for the Maginot Line: everybody has heard of it but few can describe it.
Its name resonates like a receptacle for fantasies. Their shapes have a symbolic dimension. Through my images,
I wanted to share my fascination with this extraordinary relic of an already old modernity. The shape, location
or outline of the bunkers I chose to photograph leads the image to become something more than the material
record of a border: a kind of science fiction movie set, a trace of land art, modernist architecture, a contemporary
geoglyph or something else that captures the imagination. The gap between the abundance of the line’s relics
and the lack of contemporary representations offers an exciting playground to question our relationship to the
landscape, borders and limits.
Alexandre Guirkinger
Exhibition curator: Jean-Yves Jouannais.
With support from the Secretary of State for War Veterans and Remembrance.
aleguirk.com
don mccullin
église saintE-anne
Born 1935, London, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Somerset, United Kingdom.
Don McCullin is known primarily as one of the most highly regarded conflict photographers of the late
twentieth century, having produced some of the most iconic and defining images of wars in Vietnam, Cyprus, Beirut
and Biafra. The exhibition of his work at the Rencontres d’Arles 2016 brings together, for the first time, the wealth
and depth of his photographic practice beyond the limits of conflict, exploring his long standing practice as a
documentary and landscape photographer. Even outside the frame of war, McCullin’s work reflects some of the
most pressing social issues of our time, always portrayed using a photographic language of great beauty and
subtlety. Perhaps his greatest talent, however, has been his ability to capture a diversity of subjects from a consistent
standpoint. From his local surroundings in London, to foreign conflicts and tragedies, or returning to the peaceful
landscape of the Somerset levels, there is a universal way in which McCullin reveals the world around us.
Simon Baker and Shoair Mavlian
Exhibition curators: Simon Baker and Shoair Mavlian.
With support from Hamiltons Gallery, London, and John Jones, London.
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NOTHING BUT BLUE SKies
capitole
Steve Reich (1936), Hans Peter Feldmann (1941), Dennis Adams (1948), Andres Serrano
(1950), Joan Fontcuberta (1955), Thomas Hirschhorn (1957), Thomas Ruff (1958), Alejandro
González Iñárritu (1963), Arno Gisinger (1964), Jeroen Kooijmans (1967), Walid Raad (1967),
Mounir Fatmi (1970), Fiorenza Menini (1970), Paul Chan (1973), Michal Kosakowski (1974),
Guillaume Chamahian (1975), Jojakim Cortis et Adrian Sonderegger (1980 et 1977),
Reeve Schumacher (1981), Zin Ki-Jong (1981)
LOOKING BACK AT THE MEDIA’S IMAGE OF 11 SEPTEMBER
Irving Berlin wrote Nothing But Blue Skies in 1926. The song could have been about the sky over New York on the
morning of September 11th, 2001. The narrative of that day, broadcast live and continuously on television sets
around the world, ushered in a new era in the history of media. The event and its photographic portrayal are inseparable, the first having been elaborated for and by the latter. Most of the artists in this exhibition used existing documents to offer new interpretations. Accumulating, diverting, deconstructing or avoiding this mass of images, they
have independently questioned the visual representations of the tragedy over a nearly 15-year period. Through
various forms and media, Nothing But Blue Skies focuses not on the event and its horror, causes or consequences,
but on the repetition of its image and its symbolic erosion.
Mélanie Bellue
Exhibition curators : Mélanie Bellue et Sam Stourdzé.
Texts: Jean Paul Curnier.
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yan morvan
Siege of Sarajevo, 5 April 1992-25 February 1996. Ski station, Mount Jahorina, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2014.
Courtesy of the artist.
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
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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WINNER OF THE LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD ARLES 2015
YANN GROSS
magasin éléctrique
Born 1981, Vevey, Switzerland. Lives and works in Switzerland and South America.
THE JUNGLE SHOW
When the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana set out on his search for cinnamon in 1541, he could not
have known that his travels would take him to the winding bends of the world’s longest river: the Amazon. Long a
witness to evangelisation campaigns, road-building projects and rubber, oil and gold rushes, the area has always
aroused greed, competition and fascination. Following in the footsteps of past expeditions, this travel diary’s
discreetly staged scenes help to reveal various facets of contemporary Amazonia and the surrounding areas.
Working with different local communities allowed me to explore the forest’s complex interactions and mysteries.
Once immersed in this domesticated world, you soon forget romantic clichés about forgotten lands and noble
savages. More broadly, this visual roaming challenges the idea of progress and development.
Yann Gross
Publication: The Jungle Book, 2016. This publication has been made possible by the support of the LUMA Foundation.
yanngross.com
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yanN Gross
Gorra de Motelo (turtle cap), 2015.
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
REREADING
PHOTOGRAPHY IN A
DIFFERENT LIGHT
The history of photography through the lens of
re-appropriations, errors or accidents.
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FABULOUS FAILURES
palais de l'archevÊché
Timm Ulrichs (1940), André Thijssen (1948), Joachim Schmid (1955), Joan Fontcuberta (1955),
Paul Bogaers (1961), Peter Piller (1968), Heike Bollig (1973), Helmut Smits (1974), Matt Stuart
(1974), Kent Rogowski (1974), Barry Van Der Rijt (1974), Daniel Eatock (1975), Ruth Van Beek
(1977), PUTPUT (Stephan Friedli, 1987, et Ulrik Martin Larsen, 1975), Lucas Blalock (1978),
Thomas Mailaender (1979), Annegien Van Doorn (1982)
THE ART OF EMBRACING SERENDIPITY AND MISTAKES
Nowadays most art, design and photography portrays perfection. Contemporary popular culture is drowning
under a tidal wave of superficiality and over-perfection. Posed, polished and controlled. As if it were a reflection of
our endless search for clarity and calmness and an antidote for the chaos in our lives. Digital techniques has created
an abundance of images. We shoot and shoot until we get it right. The imperfect pictures get deleted and the good
ones get a filter or a touchup. In our perfection-obsessed culture we shy away from errors and that is, in my humble
opinion, a disaster. Luckily failing is something artists and photographers more and more take as a subject for their
work. This exhibition shows a large overview of the best fabulous failures found in contemporary art, design and
photography, made by a group of artists that like to fight perfection, embrace serendipity and search for fabulous
failures.
Erik Kessels
Exhibition curator: Erik Kessels.
With support from Olympus.
Publication: Erik Kessels, Fabulous Failure, Phaidon 2016.
where the other rests
ATELIER DES FORGES
Collection Mrs. Merryman, Marcel Broodthaers (1924), Artavazd Pelechian (1938),
Tom Molloy (1964), David Campany (1967), Batia Suter (1967), Laurent Fiévet (1969),
Barbara Breitenfellner (1969), Melik Ohanian (1969), Adam Broomberg (1970) et
Oliver Chanarin (1971), Pauline Boudry (1972) et Renate Lorenz (1963), Éric Baudelaire (1973),
Marc Bauer (1975), Alexandra Leykauf (1976), Laura Gozlan (1979) et Benjamin Laurent Aman
(1981), Cyrielle Lévèque (1989)
awakening forgotten images
Quoting, borrowing and re-using images have always been a gateway to art history, but the appearance of film
and photography has particularly encouraged those practices. The itineraries of these new images continue to
obsessively hold our contemporaries’ attention. This exhibition offers insight into visual reactivations in the specific
field of contemporary art. It will pay tribute to a generation of artist-scavengers who collect and awaken forgotten
images borrowed from others. How do images haunt our individual memories and feed our collective imagination?
How does re-using them allow us to think about the fragmentation and violence of bodies and identities? How can
their multiplicity, profusion and abundance be played with? Since its inception, the Where the Other Rests project
has been conceived and developed around dialogue and around encounters between an art historian and an artist
as well as between the works in the exhibition space, for there is an other in every one of us.
Agnès Geoffray and Julie Jones
Exhibition curators: Julie Jones and Agnès Geoffray.
Publication: Il y a de l’autre, éditions Textuel, 2016.
agnesgeoffray.com
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COMMANDERIE SAINTE-LUCE
Winner of the 2015 BMW RESIDENCY AT THE MUSÉE NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE
ALINKA ECHEVERRÍA
Born 1981, Mexico City, Mexico. Lives and works in London, Great Britain.
NICEPHORA
Alinka Echeverría, the 2015 BMW artist in residence, is working on a project that examines photography, from the
reproduction to the dissemination of images, based on Nicéphore Niépce and his founding act. Interested in how
women are depicted in the history of art and photography, she forges historical, technical and philosophical ties
between the museum’s collections and ceramics. Using the vase as a symbol of femininity and a vector of mythological allegories, Echeverría looks at how various image reproduction methods have determined the way society
views women.
Exhibition curator: François Cheval.
Exhibition produced by BMW Arts & Culture with support from the Musée Nicéphore Niépce.
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kent rogowski
Love=love
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
SINGULaR
!
QUIRKY COLLECTIONS
Some passionate, free-spirited collectors look for unusual items,
exploring the question of the vernacular.
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SINCERELY QUEER
ATELIER DES FORGES
Sébastien Lifshitz Collection
I have always been interested in outsider discourses, those written outside mainstream history, far from any moral,
political and social power or normalising gaze. That is why I have collected amateur photographs for many years:
they show a different perspective on society. Cross-dressing is a great example. Bringing together photographs
taken between the 19th century and the 1970s’, the exhibition Sincerely Queer is full of men and women who dared
to play with gender in front of the camera’s eye, something that, perhaps, they would not have dreamed of doing in
public. In private, these small groups boldly enjoyed experimenting with mixing gender roles. From these bubbles
of privacy arose a spirit of rebellion that, decades later, came out into the streets to be openly expressed at last.
Sébastien Lifshitz
Exhibition curator: Sébastien Lifshitz.
Publication: Mauvais genre, éditions Textuel, 2016.
LADY LIBERTY
musée départemental arles antiquE
The photographic making of an icon
The Statue of Liberty—an emblem of America, symbol of freedom and democracy, and colossal challenge sealing
the union between art and technology—is one of the world’s most photographed landmarks. The Frenchman
who designed it, Auguste Bartholdi, was himself a photographer. However, he quickly gave up photography for
painting and, especially, sculpture, relying on the skills of professionals to record the progress of his creations,
especially the Statue of Liberty. Throughout the construction process, images, especially photographs, played an
unprecedented role, serving not just as working tools, but also, and above all, as outstanding communication tools.
Beyond these purposes, the photographs waver between reality and fiction, documenting 20 years of an outsized,
utopian project intersecting with and marked by the greatest political, social, architectural and aesthetic issues of
their time.
Luce Lebart
Exhibition curators: Luce Lebart and Sam Stourdzé.
Exhibition realised in collaboration with the Musée Bartholdi, Colmar.
Publication: Lady Liberty, Seuil, 2016.
hara kiri photo
grande halle
Twenty-five years of a chaotic, orgiastic history: from 1960 to 1985, Hara Kiri, the ‘nasty and stupid’ newspaper
founded by François Cavanna and Georget Bernier, went after French society with humour, provocation and satire.
Hara Kiri thrusted three generations of cartoonists into the spotlight (from Topor to Wolinski, Willem, Moebius,
Vuillemin, Reiser and Gébé), but the noteworthy role photography played in its success and lasting appeal is
often overlooked. We have tracked down many witnesses to this noisy, grandiose epic: still-living photographers,
people who posed for them, original photos touched up with gouache and, later, airbrushes, prints for
photoengraving, postcards and promotional materials. Beyond their scatology, graphic brutality, total
derisiveness and slightly reductive ‘nasty and stupid’ nature, these images, when taken out of their editorial context,
evoke a daily surrealism and a preposterous poetry close to performance art as French society was going through
tremendous changes.
Thomas Mailaender and Marc Bruckert
Exhibition curators: Thomas Mailaender and Marc Bruckert.
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albert fernique
Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty under construction, 1884.
Collection of the musée bartholdi, colmar.
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
OUTSIDE THE
FRAME
Photography leaves its frame and invades the space.
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Maurizio cattelan
& pierpaolo ferrari
parc des ateliers
Maurizio Cattelan, born 1960, Padova, Italy. Lives and works between Milan, Italy and New
York, Unites States.
Pierpaolo Ferrari, born 1971, Milan, Italy. Lives and works in Milan, Italy.
TOILET PAPER
In 2010, contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari founded Toilet Paper, a
magazine made up of nothing but sparely and sophisticatedly staged photographs. Describing the publication
as ‘a salacious six-monthly meeting’, Cattelan and Ferrari seem to critique a society dominated by consumption and appearances with provocative pictures. Each of their painstakingly constructed images borrows from
the tacky, the sublime and the absurd to revisit the codes of fashion, advertising and film. As the worthy heirs of
Hara Kiri, Cattelan and Ferrari break with normality and readily sow confusion, if not disgust. As disturbing as they
are surprising, their images, featuring saturated, explosive colours that look almost too perfect, provoke fear and
sow visual pleasure.
pierpaoloferrari.com
augustin rebetez
magasin électrique
nonante-neuf
Born 1986, Mervelier, Switzerland. Lives and works in Mervelier, Switzerland.
THE CARDBOARD MUSEUM
Pôle Muséal brings together the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Musée de l'Elysée and Musée de Design
et d’Arts Appliqués Contemporains on a site alongside the railway station in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Artist Augustin Rebetez, who is from the Jura, has imagined a unique world that presents the ambitious project
of bringing three museums together in one place. He has built a cardboard castle that entices visitors inside an
imaginary museum. The quirky structure includes fictional cultural spaces and fake artworks. Pseudo paintings,
designer objects, photographs and sculptures are made from cardboard to create a museum of major pieces in the
history of Swiss art. This total work ingeniously breaks down walls between media and offers an unprecedented,
jubilatory interpretation of artistic practices. The installation allows Pôle Muséal to make a statement based on the
strong expressive power of Rebetez’s imagery and unbridled language.
With support from the Swiss Confederation and the canton of Vaud.
polemuseal.ch
augustinrebetez.com
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THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES' VISUAL IDENTITY
WAS CONCEIVED BY ABM STUDIO
THE PHOTOGRAPH FEATURED ON THE 2016
POSTER WAS SHOT BY MAURIZIO
CATTELAN & PIERPAOLO FERRARI
Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari
untitled. concept and images by TOILET PAPER magazine.
courtesy of the artists.
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
EMERGENCES
The festival is a trailblazer; it seeks out tomorrow’s talents.
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OLYMPUS ENGAGES
IN A PHOTOGRAPHIC CONVERSATION
new space!
PALAIS DE LUPPÉ
Olivier Culmann / Pauline Rousseau
Corinne Mercadier / Barnabé Moinard
Klavdij Sluban / Florian Maurer
A partner of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles for eight years now, Olympus
continues the dialogue between students and great contemporary photographers that it initiated three years ago.
Three graduate students — Pauline Rousseau, Barnabé Moinard, and Florian Maurer — are invited to enter into
a ‘conversation’ with three eminent photographers: Olivier Culmann, Corinne Mercadier, and Klavdij Sluban.
This conversation is an exchange of views in every sense 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. An exhibition of the works involved in and resulting from this project
will be presented at the Palais de Luppé, at the invitation of the Rencontres d’Arles, from 4 July to 28 August.
The six photographers will also discuss the project together at a conference held, during the professional week and
open to the public, during the Olympus Encounters in the Cour Fanton.
éCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE (ARLES)
AN UNUSUAL ATTENTION
magasin électrique
THREE 2016 GRADUATE STUDENTS OF THE ENSP
Each year, the Rencontres d’Arles invite three graduate students from the ENSP to present their photographic
worlds. Selected by a jury presided over by the Rencontres director, an exhibition is devoted to them which
highlights their commitment to the field of contemporary photography.
Exhibition produced by the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles.
Arles
Arles
2016
2016
arles books
Over 1,000m2 dedicated to the book in all its forms.
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Cosmos-Arles Books
new space!
mistral
Cosmos-Arles Books is an event devoted to new and innovative publishing practices. For fifteen years now,
large-scale photographic publications, self-published or electronic books have been essential mediums of
experimentation for photographers and artists. These mediums allow photography to be rediscovered as a
means of expression and dissemination, and within them the hybrid nature of the forms specific to photography
doubtlessly finds it richest field of expression. Empowered by the success of the first edition, which welcomed
more than 80 publishers, the artistic direction of Cosmos-Arles Books is once again overseen by Olivier Cablat
and Sebastian Hau (founders of Cosmos), as well as by Sam Stourdzé, the director of the Rencontres d’Arles.
This new space dedicated to photography books will again welcome this year many international publishers to
the former site of Collège Mistral in the centre of Arles, and will be open, for free, to the public from 4 to 9 July.
A genuine terrain for conviviality, exchange and sharing, it will also offer experimentations, project presentations,
conferences, pop-ups, signings, encounters with exhibiting artists and experimental forms of exhibitions.
Main partners: Swiss Confederation, Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature.
With support from IDEAT Magazine.
From 4 to 9 July, Mistral.
cosmosarlesbooks.com
THE 2016 BOOK AWARD
Grande Halle
The Author’s Book Award and History Book Award honour the best works on photography published between
1 June 2015 and 31 May 2016. The winners are named during the opening week by experts from the photography
field. Two copies of each work are received: one is deposited in the library of the École Nationale Supérieure de
la Photographie d’Arles, the other is exhibited at the Grande Halle throughout the festival, in a space dedicated to
the book award.
Main partner: Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature.
With support from the Fnac for the Author Book Award.
LUMA RENCONTREs
DUMMY BOOK AWARD
ARLES 2016
magasin électrique
For the second consecutive year, the Rencontres d’Arles offers an award supporting the publication of a
dummy. This new prize, with a production budget of €25 000, is open to any new photographer or artist using
photography, submitting a previously unpublished dummy book. Special attention is paid to experimental and
innovative publication forms. The recipient of the first edition of the award was Yann Gross, for his Jungle Book.
Two special mentions were given to the dummy books by John MacLean (Hometowns) and Yoshinori Masuda (Tiger 2).
The deadline for submissions for the 2016 edition is 7 May 2016. An international jury will decide on the winner.
In 2015, 250 publications from 40 countries were received.
Contest rules and conditions available on www.rencontres-arles.com
Main partner: LUMA Foundation.
Arles
2016
LES RENCONTRES
DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
COSMOS ARLES BOOKS
4 — 9 JULY
RENCONTRES-ARLES.COM
WitH support FroM iDeat MagaZine
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
François BellaBas & roBin lopvet
pour COSMOS, 2016
Design aBM stuDio
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Arles
2016
2016
ASSOCIATED
PROGRAMME
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Méjan ASSOCIATION
Kazuo Ōno by Eikoh Hosoe
and William Klein
Chapelle saint-martin du Méjan
pas de deux
The exhibition Pas de Deux brings together the photographs taken by Eikoh Hosoe and those taken by
William Klein of Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010), the cofounder of the Japanese dance form Butoh. Pas de Deux also
interrogates the performative aspect of the photographic act. In 1961, William Klein went to Tokyo and created
photographic work that would be published in 1964 under the title Tokyo. Fascinated by a changing city making its
definitive turn towards modernity, Klein explored its neighbourhoods with the onsite help of Eikoh Hosoe and the
members of the VIVO collective, which the latter had cofounded. The masterly book The Butterfly Dream (2006)
recounts the intense collaboration between Eikoh Hosoe and Kazuo Ohno from 1960 through 2005. Beyond the
idea of a photographer recording an ephemeral performance, this is an artwork in which Kazuo Ohno dances
for the camera of Eikoh Hosoe, who, in return, stages and directs him through photography, in such a way that it
becomes impossible to tell who is leading whom.
Exhibition presented by the Association du Méjan in collaboration with the Akio Nagasawa (Tokyo) and Jean-Kenta Gauthier (Paris) galleries.
Méjan ASSOCIATION
HANS SILVEster
Chapelle saint-martin du Méjan
THE bENCH
Hans Silvester’s photography is a vibrant plea for the diversity of the planet. Since the 1980s, tirelessly bearing
witness to peoples or places threatened with extinction or grave changes has been at the heart of his work—major
reportages and long-term projects on several continents. He became a member of the Rapho agency in 1965 and
has been travelling Africa in search of little-known ethnic groups since 2000. In a practically inaccessible part of
southern Ethiopia, he lived with a people called the Bench. ‘The Bench bear witness to an agro-pastoral civilisation
that has lasted into the 21st century. Nobody has ever been interested in their beautiful frescoes and fascinating
creativity… although, to be fair, not a single road goes up into those mountains and it takes a long time to get there.’
Hans Silvester
With support from CENTRAL DUPON IMAGES.
Musée Réattu
katerina jebb
Musée réattu
DEUS EX MACHINA
Katerina Jebb presents the singular aesthetics of a visual experiment where fabrics and bodies mingle, forming
mysterious floating idols in Christian Lacroix dresses. By using only a digital scanner, she subverts an industrial reproduction tool and imposes images now freed from one of art’s greatest achievements: perspective.
In Jebb’s work, the idea of three-dimensional reproduction gives way to a hyperrealism of materials and
flesh. Jebb’s approach to the present is revealed not just in portraits, but also in videos where she stages the
contemporary heroines in her personal pantheon like goddesses. This is the first time a museum has devoted a
monographic exhibition to the artist. The title, deus ex machina, evokes the magic of works created in the cold light
of a machine to which Katerina Jebb concedes the quasi-divine power of visual art.
Pascale Picard
Exhibition curator: Pascale Picard.
Exhibition produced by the city of Arles.
Museum closed on Mondays.
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ENSP / CNAP
WHITE GESTURES IN THE WILDERNESS
galerie arena
Works from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques
Troubled images, charged with intensity, turmoil, a brooding force. Presences which shy away, suspended
on the edge of the familiar and the strange. Sometimes a threat surfaces: the violence of a flash. Here, reality
resurfaces: the rebellion of a tensed body. For this third edition of a partnership between the Centre National
des Arts Plastiques and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, the exhibition, organised by four
student curators (Amélie Blanc, Lexane Laplace, Camille Kirnidis and Alice Millet), borrows its title from a line from
Merlin and the Old Woman by Guillaume Apollinaire. A statement about a relationship to the world consisting
of a new delight in and approval of things such as they are in their indecisiveness. The discomfort in which they
leave us is like a call for attention, to listen to possibilities. With Dieter Appelt, Marina Ballo Charmet, Valérie Belin,
Patrick Everaert, Juul Hondius, Valérie Jouve, Mehdi Meddaci, Duane Michals, Marc Pataut, Pierre Savatier,
Georges Tony Stoll and Patrick Tosani.
Exhibition curators: Amélie Blanc, Lexane Laplace, Camille Kirnidis and Alice Millet.
Exhibition coproduced by the CNAP and the ENSP.
ENSP / INSERM
ART RESEARCH #5
galerie du haut, ensp
Ad vitam æternam. From the treated man to the enhanced man
The fifth edition of Art Researches undertaken in partnership with the INSERM is part of a reflection which the
ENSP develops around bringing art and science closer together. At a time when technology allows 3D printing
of organs and the manufacturing of prostheses which sometimes enhance individual performance, the borders
between bodies and machines become blurred. This year, during their residencies in the INSERM laboratories,
Vivien Ayroles, Mathilde Moignard, Prune Phi ,and Isoline Spote explore the human body in its new definitions.
Project coordinator: Caroline Bernard, artist and teacher at the ENSP.
Exhibition coproduced by the ENSP and INSERM.
LUMA foundation
SYSTEMATICALLY OPEN ?
atelier de la mécanique
NEW FORMS FOR CONTEMPORARY IMAGE PRODUCTION
Collier Schorr (1963), Zanele Muholi (1972), Walead Beshty (1976), Elad Lassry(1977)
SYSTEMATICALLY OPEN ? is an exhibition project intended to find new structures for the presentation of the
photographic image. Drawing on avant-garde, political and critically conscious legacies, it will provide a new
frame for the experience of the image as a reproduction. Four artists —Walead Beshty, Elad Lassry, Zanele Muholi
and Collier Schorr— have each been invited, to develop their own exhibition in response to the innovative
architectural design proposed by architect Philippe Rahm on the dual premise of a sustainable environment and
‘spectral lighting’. The show will be organized in the main space of the Atelier de la Mécanique, a new exhibition venue renovated and expanded by Selldorf Architects at Parc des Ateliers in Arles. The thought-provoking
exhibition architecture will build on the remarkable features and proportions of this former railway workshop while
creating a critical setting for the curatorial projects of the four guest artists-curators.
Exhibition curators: Walead Beshty, Elad Lassry, Zanele Muholi and Collier Schorr.
Exhibition architecture by Philippe Rahm.
SYSTEMICALLY OPEN? has been conceived and developed by the LUMA Arles Core Group —Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Maja Hoffmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist,
Philippe Parreno, and Beatrix Ruf—and is produced by LUMA Foundation for the Parc des Ateliers during the Rencontres d’Arles 2016.
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Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
Dominic nahr
fondation manuel rivera- ortiz
FRACTURED STATE
By gaining independence on July 9, 2011, the youngest nation of the world was born: The General Assembly of
the United Nations welcomed South Sudan as 193rd member, praising it as a model for security, peace, prosperity,
friendship and cooperation between peoples. Five years after independence the UN reported on the desperate
situation in South Sudan: War, violence, famine, and disease have driven the East African nation into a humanitarian
catastrophe. By tracing the paths of families as they crisscrossed the country in search of safety, and by spending
time with men inflicting this suffering, Nahr points at the dissonance between the original concept of a peaceful,
united country and the reality its people are facing.
Exhibition produced by the Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur, in collaboration with the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Arles.
dominicnahr.com
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Patrick Tosani
Regard IX, 2001. FNAC 04-677
Courtesy of the artist and CNAP © Adagp
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The wind of photography blows through the Great South.
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AVIGNON
ANDRES SERRANO
New space!
collection LAMBERT
GRAND ARLES EXPRESS
Born 1950, New York, United States. Lives and works in New York, United States.
TORTURE
The Torture series is conceived as a reflection on the concept of torture and its evolution down through centuries. Andres
Serrano questions the disturbing schizophrenia of our contemporary societies. Although torture is in fact banned by the
1949 Geneva Convention and the United Nations Convention Against Torture, it is still employed by 81 governments.
In this new series, Serrano takes on the role of the artist searching for new tangible forms of representation, but also the
symbolic role of the executioner, as though to get as close as possible to the inexpressible. Beginning with a methodical
study of objects and machines devoted to torture since the Middle Ages, where each new discovery is envisaged as a
disturbing still-life, he then focuses on symbolic places of torture, from prisons to the Stasi’s interrogation offices, and the
death camps, to finish by an attempt to represent mental torture.
Exhibition produced by the a/political Foundation.
Exhibition accessible upon presentation of a Rencontres d'Arles 2016 badge or pass.
NÎMES
stéphanie solinas
New space!
CARRÉ D’ART
GRAND ARLES EXPRESS
Born 1978, La Tronche, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
DOMINIQUE LAMBERT
‘Dominique is France’s most common mixed-gender and 27th most popular first name; Lambert also ranks 27th amongst
family names. I therefore defined the 191 Dominique Lamberts listed in France’s White Pages as my study population.’
Stéphanie Solinas uses various official techniques of representing identity. She consults with experts, works her way
through successive stages, searches and exhausts the system and tools of representation itself.
Paula Aisemberg
Exhibition curator: Paula Aisemberg.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Discover Stéphanie Solinas' other exhibition, La Méthode des Lieux, at the cloître Saint-Trophime.
stephaniesolinas.com
MARSEILLE
alfred seiland
new space!
VILLA MÉDITERRANÉE
GRAND ARLES EXPRESS
Born 1952, Austria. Lives in Leoben, teaches in Stuttgart, Germany and works worldwide.
IMPERIUM ROMANUM
2,000 years ago Europe was unified by a political and military superpower, the Roman Empire – in the year 2006 A.D.
Alfred Seiland starts working on his project Imperium Romanum. He studies the visible remains of Roman culture,
architecture and art in our 21st century, starting in Rome, then Italy and soon after all over Europe and the Mediterranean.
The research turns into a longterm project of more than ten years and is still ongoing in 2016. In a time where Europe
seems to be in doubt about it’s most recent unification processes Seiland’s vision of the Roman Empire can serve as a
mindmap of a cultural and political union. The photographs of Imperium Romanum remind us that some of our most
evident political, cultural and religious problems have not been solved in the course of these 2,000 years.
Markus Hartmann
Exhibition curator: Markus Hartmann.
Production: Villa Méditerranée - AV iTeM.
Conception and associate production: Rencontres d’Arles.
Closed on Mondays.
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Rome Film Set, Cinecittà Studios, Rome, Rōma, Italy, 2006.
Courtesy of the artist.
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night
evenings at the théâtre antique
The full programme of evening events will be announced on 29 April 2016.
PRIX PICTET: Valérie Belin
French photographer Valérie Belin was announced as the winner of Disorder, the sixth cycle of the Prix Pictet,
at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, last November, subsequently followed by an extensive world tour of the
selected work. In a special screening at the Théâtre Antique, Belin will discuss her work, exploring her fascination with artifice and the significance of appearance in her often unnerving, surreal images. She will chart the
development of the work that led to her prize winning series, Still Life. She is joined in conversation by Phillip Prodger,
Head of Photographs Collection at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The screening will coincide with the
announcement of the seventh theme of the Prix Pictet which is widely regarded as the world’s leading prize for
photography.
Friday 8 July, 10 pm, théâtre Antique
Night of the year
papEteries Étienne
thursday 7 july 2016, from 6pm onwards,
papeteries étienne, trinquetaille
The key festive event of the Rencontres d’Arles’ opening week offers a photographic stroll through forty
propositions projected on a dozen screens: the festival’s special picks from among artists and photographers,
cartes blanches to institutions, concerts...
It is an opportunity to discover Byopaper (Bring Your Own Paper) where many artists invited to participate in the
Rencontres will come at 6pm to stick their images on the walls of the former industrial site.
Food, bars, dj sets.
Free admission.
With support from ARTE.
In 2016, the Night of the Year and the Nuit de la Roquette will take place on the same day. Come and wander among exhibitions and events from la Roquette to
Trinquetaille and vice versa.
Artistic direction: Sam Stourdzé and Aurélien Valette.
day
meetings / conferences / debates
théÂtre d'arles
6-7 july
Denis Roche Énergumène
Conversations, performances, screenings
A tribute to Denis Roche, author and photographer, who passed away in 2015: two days of meetings, screenings,
conversations, lectures, and performances to explore, with artists and researchers, an oeuvre where writing and
photography constantly meet and interact.
4 half-day workshops (10:00 am – noon and 3:00 – 5:00 pm) led by Jean-Christophe Bailly, Anne-Lise Broyer,
Bernard Comment, and Laure Limongi.
Organiser and general coordinator: Nathalie Lacroix (Le Bureau des Activités Littéraires).
Scientific advisor: Bernard Comment (writer and director of Éditions du Seuil’s 'Fiction & Cie' imprint, founded by Denis Roche).
Free admission subject to availability.
5-9 july
OLYMPUS ENCOUNTERS
cour fanton
Every morning and evening, conferences and debates take place at Cour Fanton, inviting photographers and
professionals present at the festival to talk about their work or about issues raised by the exhibited images.
Under the direction of art critic Natacha Wolinski, in collaboration with Damien Sausset, art critic and director of the contemporary art center Le Transpalette, Bourges.
With support from Olympus.
Free admission.
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4-8 July
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS
cour fanton
With Elina Brotherus, Charles Fréger, Olivier Metzger, Sylvie Hugues...
Complete list of workshops on pg. 69
PHOTOGRAPHY AUCTION
For the fourth consecutive year, the Yann Le Mouël auction house, in associatsion with the Galerie Lumière des
Roses (Marion and Philippe Jacquier), invites photography lovers to an auction at Cour 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.
4 - 9 july
TALKS
New space!
mistral
The Swiss Confederation, The Eyes magazine and Cosmos-Arles Books have put together a programme of conferences. These convivial moments of exchange and sharing will take place in the centre of Arles, on the former
campus of the Mistral middleschool.
Free admission.
EXHIBITION TOURS
During the opening week, the exhibited photographers present their work to festivalgoers. From 11 July to
25 September, a team of photographer-liaison staff offer daily guided tours through the festival’s various exhibition
sites. A sensitive, technical and interactive approach to the festival.
BOOK SIGNINGS
Book signings by many of the photographers participating in the Rencontres d’Arles are held at Cour Fanton and
Cosmos-Arles Books 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
festival. The event, which is open with advance registration, is addressed to professional photographers,
photography school students, and experienced amateur photographers. In 2015, we had the pleasure of
welcoming 106 international experts and organizing sessions for 241 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 examination of their individual photographic achievements, as well as invaluable advice.
Some contacts involve the possibility of exhibition, acquisition, and/or publication. Finally, each year the experts
vote for their favorite portfolio 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 2015 was the Italian Piero Martinello.
The experts also nominated four favourites: Charlotte Abramow, Martin Essl, Elin Hoyland et Laurent Kronental.
In 2016, the work of the five finalists, including the winner, will be presented in a group publication coproduced by
the Rencontres d’Arles and YellowKorner.
With support from YellowKorner.
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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 workshops are open to amateurs and professionals, and fit within continuing education (PFE, CIF, Afdas)
guidelines.
Spring 2016
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
photographers, who take advantage of the exceptional Camargue light and landscapes during this season to
realise a personal series over a period of days, by alternating shooting sessions with image analysis.
Workshops run for four, five, or six days.
11-16 April
ANTOINE D’AGATA / The personal diary: to the boundaries of the photographic act
PAULO NOZOLINO / Down to the bone
19-22 April
CLAUDINE DOURY / Creating your own reality
VEE SPEERS / The portrait: inventing a photographic language
25-29 April
PATRICK SWIRC / The portrait: beginning with oneself
LJUBISA DANILOVIC / A personal gaze for a series
GRÉGOIRE KORGANOW / Itineraries and territories: constructing a singular vision
SUMMER 2016
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 s
ummer. For the second consecutive year, The '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.
4-8 July
Revealing photography / Digital platform and Pause-Photo-Prose game (8 July)
SYLVIE HUGUES / Establishing a viewpoint and developing a personal photographic approach (5-6 July, 2 days)
A session with VEE SPEERS (Dates to be confirmed)
A session with ELINA BROTHERUS (5 and 6 July, 1 and a half days)
A session with CHARLES FRÉGER (Dates to be confirmed)
A session with OLIVIER METZGER (Dates to be confirmed)
11-16 July
OLIVIER CULMANN / Searching for your own photography
CRISTINA DE MIDDEL / Constructing a story: from fiction to presentation
KLAVDIJ SLUBAN / A sensitive path for creator-driven reportage
THIERRY BOUËT / The portrait: a gaze on a territory
19-22 July
ÉRIC BOUVET / Reportage: from the exploration to the writing of a story
JÉRÔME BONNET / The portrait: a moment of encounter
GRÉGOIRE KORGANOW / Constructing a personal vision
CHRISTIAN CAUJOLLE / Editing: the meaning of choices
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25-29 July
LUDOVIC CARÈME / The portrait: another myself
FRANÇOISE HUGUIER / The photographic sequence
ANTOINE D’AGATA / The personal diary: to the boundaries of the photographic act
AMBROISE TÉZENAS / Documentary landscape: the passage of time
1-5 August
LAURENT MONLAÜ / Identities and territories
GRÉGOIRE ALEXANDRE / From the idea to the image
LÉA CRESPI / The portrait: about and around things
JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART / Starting with the self, finding your language
8-13 August
CLAUDINE DOURY / Constructing a series: from the desire to the editing
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BÉCHET / The city and beyond: territories for a gaze
FRÉDÉRIC STUCIN / The portrait: mastering the moment
MARTIN BOGREN / A way of seeing
16-19 August
PHILIPPE GUIONIE / Documentary photography: ideas and choices
ANTOINE LE GRAND / The portrait: light and balance
DIANA LUI / The intimate and the personal
STAGE JEUNE PUBLIC (17-19 August, 3 afternoons)
WORKSHOP EVENING PRESENTATIONS
cour fanton
Workshop supervisors present their work
As part of the photography workshops, the Rencontres d’Arles organise once a week, from 13 July to 17 August,
evening photo presentations.
These open air events bring together the photographers who supervise the various workshops organised
each week. These special moments allow audiences to discover the artists’ photographic work through slide
presentations and to be able to talk with them about their approach, their careers and their vision of photography
in a convivial atmosphere, right in the centre of Arles.
Free admission subject to availability.
Wednesday 13 July, from 10pm
CRISTINA DE MIDDEL / OLIVIER CULMANN / KLAVDIJ SLUBAN / THIERRY BOUËT
CHRISTIAN CAUJOLLE / JÉRÔME BONNET / GRÉGOIRE KORGANOW / ÉRIC BOUVET
AMBROISE TÉZENAS / FRANÇOISE HUGUIER / ANTOINE D’AGATA / LUDOVIC CARÈME
Wednesday 03 August, from 10pm
GRÉGOIRE ALEXANDRE / LAURENT MONLAÜ / LÉA CRESPI / JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART
MARTIN BOGREN / FRÉDÉRIC STUCIN / CLAUDINE DOURY / JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BÉCHET
PHILIPPE GUIONIE / ANTOINE LE GRAND / DIANA LUI
Evening presentations by the participants
cour fanton
Each workshop concludes with the presentation of the work produced by the participants throughout the week.
These evenings are an opportunity to talk to each of the participants about this unique experience, and to
discover singular gazes focused on Arles and its environs.
Free admission.
Saturday 16 July, from 7pm
Friday 22 July, from 7pm
Friday 29 July, from 7pm
Friday 5 August, from 7pm
Saturday 13 August, from 7pm
Friday 19 August, from 7pm
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING MAKING VISIBLE / LEARNING TO LOOK
Accompanying young people in their visual discoveries, giving meaning to the images that surround us and
encouraging a more autonomous gaze are essential issues today. For us to understand and reflect upon images,
learn more about the artists who created them, and reinvent our own photographic practice, time is required.
Rather than just relegating photographs to a ‘I like/I don’t like’ status, the Rencontres d’Arles’ programmes
encourage more in-depth reasoning and experience, thereby allowing people to develop an autonomous, neutral
and critical gaze, and to forge a personal point of view, which can be shared with others. The educational department’s activities focus on three areas:
- cultural outreach and workshops;
- theoretical and practical courses for professional development training;
- the conception and dissemination of initiation tools for interpreting and understanding images.
Each of our educational proposals and tools are conceived, tested and evaluated in consultation with
photography and outreach experts, education professionals and many thousands of users. We sometimes also ask
external consultants to assess our initiatives.
YOUth WORKSHOPS
The Rencontres d’Arles offers a playful and educative pause for young festivalgoers. Each day an outreach
officer-photographer will supervise different, two-hour long workshops about interpreting 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 rencontres-arles.com.
Practical information pg. 76
BACK TO SCHOOL IN IMAGES, 3-22 SEPTEMBER 2016
13th edition
Each year in September, Back to School in Images welcomes in Arles 320 classes ranging from kindergarten
through to the Masters level and 700 teachers from all disciplines.
The programme offers a personal approach to photography and a dialogue between the arts (history, architecture,
photography, visual arts) by offering students the possibility of screenings, guided exhibition visits, tours of Arles’
heritage sites, meeting image professionals and participating in practical workshops.
Each registered class benefits from a customised programme developed with the collaboration of a dozen
cultural partner organisations. The classes are accompanied by twenty-five, specially trained outreach staff with a
background in art and photography.
Raising awareness about photography and contemporary art, developing the ability to analyse a work of art,
fostering curiosity, a critical mind and artistic creativity are all an integral part of this project.
Participation free of charge, registration required.
Programme partners: Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Council, Bouches-du-Rhône General Council, Canopé network, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional
Department of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, Secretary of State for War Veterans and Remembrance,
City of Arles, Educational Authorities of Aix-Marseille, Nice and Montpellier.
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: Musée Départemental Arles Antique, Institut National
de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles, Abbaye de Montmajour-Centre des Nonuments Nationaux,
Museon Arlaten, Musée Réattu, environmental, architectural and town planning councils of the Bouches-du-Rhône, Gard, and Hérault, City of Arles heritage
department, Festival de Marseille, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Association pour un musée de la résistance et de la déportation en Arles et pays d’Arles.
EXPERIMENTATION IN 2016
The Rencontres d’Arles is committed to a regional educational project with the Judicial Youth Protection
Service’s teams. The festival, which possesses expertise and image education tools, offers an innovative learning
programme. It will consist of made-to-measure training, monitoring and follow-up in the field and specifically
adapted tools. Teachers thus trained will use the latter in the context of their work with at-risk youth.
This experimental and unifying project, initially conceived and tested with ten PACA groups, is intended to
be adapted to and spread out across several regions. It will allow great flexibility and autonomy of use for
teachers supervising games, practical workshops or outreach concerned with interpreting images, and within the
framework of socialisation and social integration activities.
Project supported by the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso and the Interregional Judicial Youth Protection Service.
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Professional PHOTOGRAPHY EDUCATION MEETINGS:
23-24 SEPTEMBER
The Rencontres d’Arles invites specialists in the cultural, educational and social spheres, and all those who
ponder teaching photographic practice, to attend two days of activities, exchanges, experimentation and
sharing of experiences. The programme comprises seminars, visits and brainstorming workshops focusing on the
role photography and images play in the contemporary world. Through the training received during this event,
participants acquire methods and key tools for the implementation of educational activities adapted to their public:
83 % of participants will make use of the tools tested during training in their professional practice.
Participation free of charge, registration required.
Partners: Ministry of Culture and Communication, Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, Canopé network, city of Arles, Musée
Départemental Arles Antique, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles, environmental,
architectural and town planning councils of the Bouches-du-Rhône, Gard, and Hérault, Festival de Marseille, Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, Interregional
Judicial Youth Protection Service.
CUSTOMISED TRAINING
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.
- ‘Revealing Photography to All’: photographer participants, teachers, librarians and professional outreach
facilitators can follow our professional training programme
- Made-to-measure training programmes: available, upon request, throughout the year, in Arles or elsewhere,
for professionals, schools and community groups: libraries, social centres, city councils, businesses.
CLICKS AND CLASSES
LOOK, EVERYTHING CHANGES!
For the 13th edition of the Clicks and Classes exhibition, a cycle comes to an end with the promise of new things
to come. 2015/2016 is indeed the final year that the nationwide programme organised by Canopé, a resource
network of the French Ministry of National Education, will be devoted to the theme ‘Look, everything changes!’
Three words that the participating students have questioned and put into perspective, during photographic
workshops, by playing with their environment, identity and personalities. The images exhibited have been
conceived in highly diverse places and contexts and they demonstrate multiple modes of appropriation and
interpretation of the common theme.
Surprises await visitors to the results of Clicks and Classes, conceived from works created in each class: a look at
the year’s productions, while allowing us to glimpse the new format, which will begin next September.
31 participating photographers: Julie Guiches, Seydou Touré et Catherine Gaudin, Vincent Bidault,
Gédéon (Gaëlle Deleflie), Céline Domengie, Michel Luccioni, Yveline Loiseur, Lola Reboud, Guillaume Martial,
Isabelle Leprince, Jean-Michel André, Elisabeth Blanchet, Bernard Dutheil, Laurence Verrier, Marc Mesplié,
Jean-Paul Bonincontro, Doriane Francois, Audrey Guiraud, David Darrault, Zabou Carriére, Claude Pauquet,
Sandrine Mulas Et Richard Pelletier, Pascal Mirande, Muriel Bordier, Fabrice Baixes ‘Fatch’, Frédérique Gaumet,
Alix Hafner, Yohann Gozard, Laurent Tarbouriech.
This project is carried out in schools in the following cities and regions: Amiens, Besançon, Bordeaux, Corse,
Créteil, Dijon, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Orléans-Tours, Paris, Poitiers, Reims, Rennes, Saint-Denis
(Réunion), Strasbourg, Toulouse.
And in collaboration with 27 cultural organisations: Diaphane, Pôle Photographique in Picardie, Saline Royale d'Arc-et-Senans, Le Labo Photo in Bègles, Musée des
Beaux-Arts d'Agen, Centre Méditerranéen de la Photographie in Ville-di-Pietrabugno, Centre Photographique d'Ile-de-France, MAC VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine, Musée
Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône, Le Cœur Blanc, Centre Régional de la Photographie du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Institut Français in London, Monastère Royal
de Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse, Médiathèque Municipale Guy Auriffeuille in Couiza, Artothèque Pousse Caillou in Roquefort Les Corbières, Château d'Espeyran in
Saint-Gilles, Ciné Théâtre in Saint-Chély d'Apcher, Jeu de Paume in Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Communauté de Communes du Canton
de Melle, La Maison Laurentine in Château Villain, L'Imagerie in Lannion, Studio GwinZegal in Plouha, FATCHCOM (Réunion Island), Association Solidarités et
Cultures (Réunion Island), CLEA du Tampon, Galerie du Château d’Eau in Toulouse.
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MOBILE TOOLS
PAUSE-PHOTO-PROSE, AN EDUCATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY GAME
The Pause-Photo-Prose game triggers spoken exchange and listening, boosts confidence, and stimulates the
imagination, curiosity, inspiration and practices. This board game for six to forty participants has three rounds,
involves teamwork and thirty-two photographs by contemporary artists. Players have to reveal a photo through
mime, a descriptive word, or by drawing it. Players also discover the meaning of an image through the words
of the artist who created it, but also have to guess the context of its distribution and its influence on our
perception of images. The game does not require the supervisor or participants to have any particular knowledge about
photography. It adapts to the context in which it is used, and to the people it is directed to and the goals specific
to each situation. Conceived with teachers and facilitators, it is already being used in 800 schools, community
groups, libraries, social centres and museums by more than 40,000 children and adults.
Conceived in an experimentation context, in consultation with photography, education and outreach
professionals, the Pause-Photo-Prose game has been tested by a hundred groups and was appraised by an external
assessor throughout its development
This project has been supported by the Youth Experimentation Fund and Fondation Total. It is implemented by the Ministry of Sports, Youth, Education and
Community Life.
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ STUDIO
A PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL RESOURCES AND CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
This free platform, conceived by the Rencontres d’Arles, in collaboration with photographers, teachers,
educators and outreach practitioners, deals with numerous questions relating to photography and is designed for
users from the age of six to adulthood. The site provides a collection of photographs, information about the artists who
created them, avenues for thought and concrete propositions for entertaining workshop sessions suitable for a
broad public.
Each photograph invites us to enter into a world and on an artistic journey: – A section with information about the artist and his/her photography allows us to broach photographic notions
and techniques, and offers numerous complementary links.
– A section intended for outreach practitioners and teachers proposes themed workshop sessions which can
be customised according to the goals and the make-up of the group involved, and to suit the school curriculum or
external activities. Free of charge, this tool also exists as an app for mobile phones and tablets, and can be used
across all mediums.
latelierdesphotographes.com
This project was developed in the context of the call for a nationwide project for artistic and cultural education organised by the Youth Experimentation Fund,
implemented by the Ministry of Sports, Youth, Education and Community Life, and supported by Fondation Total.
THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES ONLINE LIBRARY
words and memories from the festival
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
evening presentations at the Théâtre Antique, …). The contents 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
adapted for various online uses and mediums. A few figures: In 2015, more than 1400 French articles, 1200 English
articles and more than 600 notes on personalities from the world of photography are available on the platform.
These documents cover 60 nationalities and 37 years of the festival.
rencontres-arles-photo.tv
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 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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Arles
Arles
2016
2016
practical
information
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EXHIBITIONS & PRICES
Exhibitions from 4 July to 25 September included (some central city sites close Sunday 28 August)
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 a company
manager; or any other document proving your professional identity).
Valid from Monday 4 to Monday 11 July inclusive, it gives unlimited access to the exhibitions and evening
screenings at the Théâtre Antique.
A 5% discount on the festival catalogue is offered upon presentation of the pass in the Rencontres d’Arles’ book
shops.
Accreditation requests can be made from
- Our website online form (Useful Information/Professionals)
- ‘My Account’ in the Ticketing/Shop section of our website www.rencontres-arles.com
For more information: [email protected] /+33 (0)4 90 96 76 06
Press accreditation
Non-transferable accreditation is restricted to journalists.
Press photographers have access to the professional pass, for a fee, upon presentation of proof of professional
identity (see above).
Forms available in the 'Useful Information/Press' section of the Rencontres d’Arles website allow you to request
accreditation from the Press Office.
Press accreditation is valid from Monday 4 to Sunday 10 July inclusive. It gives unlimited access to exhibitions,
but excludes access to the evening screenings at the Théâtre Antique.
A 5% discount on the festival catalogue is offered upon presentation of the pass in the Rencontres d’Arles’ book
shops.
The Press Office is open from 4 to 10 July from 10am to 7pm and is located at 34 Rue du Docteur Fanton in Arles,
a few steps from the Place du Forum.
PRESS OFFICE
Claudine Colin Communication
Marika Bekier & Virginie Thomas
28 rue de Sévigné–75004 Paris–France
Tel: + 33 (0)1 42 72 60 01–Fax: + 33 (0)1 42 72 50 23
[email protected]
Press accreditation
For all exhibitions, one admission per exhibition, valid from 4 July until 25 September
July/August: €37 - Concessions €29
September (available from Monday 29 August): €31 - Concessions €26
Day pass, valid for one entry per exhibition, valid for one day
July/August: €30 - Concessions €25
September available from Monday 29 August): €28 - Concessions €23
7-Day Opening Week pass (from Monday 4 to Monday 11 July inclusive)
€49 - No concessions, for unlimited access to all exhibitions
Single exhibition ticket
From €5
Free admission*
Under 18s, disabled persons, AAH, RSA, ASS and ASPA beneficiaries, Arles citizens*
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Concessions*
Students, jobseekers, large families, disabled person’s companion
*Free admission and concessions are applied upon presentation of valid identification and official proof no less
than three months old.
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/ Ground Control: SNCF train
station.
GUIDED VISITS AND youth WORKSHOP
Guided exhibition visits
During the Opening Week, exhibiting photographers present their work to visitors.
From Monday 11 July to Sunday 25 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 eligible for free admission
(Under 18s, disabled persons, AAH, RSA, ASS and ASPA beneficiaries, Arles citizens).
Information is available at the ticket office and in the Useful Information section of our website
www.rencontres-arles.com
Youth workshop / 6-12 years
Bring your parents along!
From 11 July to 21 August – Every day except Saturday
2.30pm – 4.30pm
Atelier des Forges – educational space.
Single price: €13 per child
Workshops limited to 12 children
Pass 5 workshops: € 52
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 reservations by groups
of ten people or more. These special prices are aimed in particular at work committees, community groups
and organisers 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 tours with
an outreach officer-photographer, encounters with a photographer, workshops/photography initiation game,
photography training, etc.
Group Services are available to accompany you in your project and its realisation.
Information and reservations:
Juliette Baud, [email protected] / + 33 (0)4 90 96 63 39
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ARLES, COMMENT S’Y RENDRE ?
By road
Coming from Paris / Lyon / Marseille - Nice: motorway A7 then A54 - Exit no. 5 Arles Centre-Ville.
Coming from Toulouse / Bordeaux: motorway A9 then A54 – Exit no. 5 Arles Centre-Ville.
Car sharing:covoiturage.fr
By train
voyages-sncf.com
Tel: (+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
Marseille-Provence airport: 65 km
Avignon airport: 35 km
By bus
Regular service to and from Marseille, Nîmes, Avignon.
For more information
lepilote.com
(for transportation within the Bouches-du-Rhône)
edgard-transport.fr
(services to and from the Gard region)
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THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Rencontres d’Arles is a non-profit organisation whose budget consists of 40% public funding, with 20% coming
from private partners and 40% from receipts (principally ticket sales and derivatives).
Committee
Hubert Védrine, President
Hervé Schiavetti, Vice President
Jean-François Dubos, Vice President
Marin Karmitz, Treasurer
Françoise Nyssen, Secretary
Founding members
Jean-Maurice Rouquette
Honorary members
City of Arles
Hervé Schiavetti, Mayor of Arles
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Christian Estrosi, MP for the Bouches-du-Rhône, president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Council
Bouches-du-Rhône Departement
Martine Vassal, president of the Bouches-du-Rhône General Council
Ministry of Culture and Communication
Pierre Oudart, assistant director in charge of visual arts, director general of artistic creation
Marc Ceccaldi, regional director of cultural affairs for Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Institut Français
Anne Tallineau, director
École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles
Rémy Fenzy, director
Centre des Monuments Nationaux
Philippe Belaval, president
Suitably qualified members of the board of directors
Patrick de Carolis, Françoise de Panafieu, Maja Hoffmann, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Jean-Noël Tronc.
Arles
2016
PARTners
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ABOUT THE LUMA FOUNDATION
AND LUMA Arles
The LUMA Foundation was established in 2004 in Switzerland 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 foundation commissions and produces challenging artistic projects combining a particular
interest in environmental issues, human rights, education, and culture in the broadest sense.
The LUMA Foundation and LUMA Arles, the executive entity 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, with a core
group of artistic consultants (Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Beatrix Ruf) and the
architects Frank Gehry and Annabelle Selldorf and landscape architect Bas Smets. This ambitious project envisions
an interdisciplinary center dedicated to the production of exhibitions and ideas, research, education, and archives.
Construction started after the ground-breaking ceremony in April 2014; the opening of the main building on site
is scheduled for 2018, while an artistic programme is already presented every summer in the refurbished former
railway warehouses.
The LUMA Foundation has been a partner and supporter of the Rencontres d’Arles' Discovery Award since its
inception in 2002 and jointly founded the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award in 2015.
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OLYMPUS
Nine years at the Rencontres d’Arles,
80 years in photography!
We are delighted to celebrate the anniversary of Olympus’s entry into photography within the framework of the
Rencontres d’Arles, a major event in Europe with which we have been associated for nine years.
To mark the occasion, Olympus is launching new cameras living up to the reputation of those that have made our
brand successful for so long.
During opening week, you can visit the loan counter to discover and use them. During the rest of the festival,
you can discover their performances at a carte blanche exhibition of work by a recognised photographer.
Olympus’s successful ‘Photographic Conversations’ will offer a new series of discussions between
professional photographers and students from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie. This year,
Olivier Culmann, Corinne Mercadier and Klavdij Sluban will dialogue with Pauline Rousseau, Barnabé Moinard and
Florian Maurer.
In 2016, we will have the pleasure of welcoming you to the Palais de Luppé, near the amphitheatre, which will be
completely dedicated to Olympus and its partners.
Meet us at the Palais de Luppé, 24 Rond-Point des Arènes.
Les partenariats d’Olympus :
The Rencontres d’Arles, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, La
Maison du geste et de l’image, Planche(s) Contact Festival Deauville, Filles du Calvaire gallery, Wipplay.com.,
Antoine d’Agata, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Edouard Beau, Denis Darzacq, Samuel Gratacap, Stanley Greene,
Françoise Huguier, Grégoire Korganow, Laurence Leblanc, Corinne Mercadier, Sarah Moon, Erwan Morère,
Richard Pak, Denis Rouvre, Mouna Saboni, Klavdij Sluban, Dorothée Smith, the Tendance Floue collective, Paolo
Woods, Kimiko Yoshida.
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BMW and contemporary
photography
BMW is a partner of the Rencontres d’Arles for the seventh consecutive year and is exhibiting the work of Alinka
Echeverría, winner of the BMW Artist in Residency Award 2015.
BMW supports photography through a unique and ambitious cultural partnership, in the form of an artist’s
residency. Initiated in 2011, the BMW Residency arose from the wish to develop contemporary photographic
practices, and from ‘the shared desire to be led to new spaces for creative production’, says François Cheval, head
curator of the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, where the residency program takes place.
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. The artist receives a €6,000 euro grant
and paid accommodation expenses at Chalon-sur-Saône; in addition, his or her work is exhibited at the Rencontres
d’Arles and Paris Photo, presented in a video directed by François Goizé, and published in a book with Éditions
Trocadéro. The Residency selection committee includes leading figures in photography.
Serge Naudin, CEO of BMW Group, 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 naturally turns to photography to offer an area for
free expression, to support artistic production, and to encourage the emergence of talent by giving laureates an
exceptional visibility among professionals and photography-lovers alike.’
Press contact for BMW France :
Maryse Bataillard / + 33 (0)1 30 43 93 23 / [email protected]
bmw.fr/artetculture
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L’OCCITANE EN PROVENCE
AND THE RENCONTRES D’ARLEs
partners by nature
L’Occitane has so much to share with the Rencontres d’Arles: a taste for passing treasures down through time, and
a desire to connect with Provence by revealing the talent and light of a land celebrated by two of its native sons,
Lucien Clergue, Camarguais photographer and the festival’s inaugurator, and Olivier Baussan, founder of the
L’Occitane brand. Our commitment to Arles was, quite simply, meant to be.
Since 2013, the L’Occitane Foundation has supported the work of two artists with very different sensibilities who
have offered visitors to Arles unprecedented exhibitions.
Portuguese photographer Paulo Nozolino, poet of black-on-black and insatiable traveller, has offered us images
devoted to lavender, the little flower of Giono’s hills. Working in silence and shadow, these incomparable pictures
reveal a new narrative of Provence’s floral icon, a wordless history of lavender, far from the clichés of sunny holiday
snapshots.
Christian Lacroix has led us along the paths of his Arles in search of the Arlésienne, an ideal of beauty who inspired artists from Van Gogh to Picasso, Bizet to Léo Lelée. Bringing together nearly 250 works revealed through his
research and discussions with a score of artists, Lacroix, another native son, staged an extraordinary exhibition
dedicated to that timeless woman, his primordial inspiration.
As a partner of the 2016 Rencontres d’Arles, the L’Occitane Foundation once again seizes the opportunity to share
the beauty, crafts, and traditions of Provence by supporting this quintessential event, which so magnificently
echoes our brand’s values.
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the fondation Jan Michalski
pour l’écriture et la littérature
In 2004, Vera Michalski-Hoffmann set up the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature in memory
of her husband as a way of carrying on their shared commitment to writers. The foundation aims to foster literary
creation and encourage reading.
Designed as a small city in the heart of an inspirational natural setting, the foundation brings together various buildings housing diverse activities beneath a canopy. The library—multicultural, multilingual and open to all—has
over 50,000 works of modern and contemporary literature. The auditorium hosts literary discussions, lectures,
readings, concerts and plays on a regular basis. In addition, every year the foundation stages three temporary
exhibitions showing writing and literature from different perspectives: portraits of authors, photographs, drawings,
paintings, graphic figures based on literature and more. A writers-in-residence programme intended to nurture
their creativity will be added in the spring of 2017. Furthermore, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, awarded
annually since 2010, strengthens the foundation’s actions by honouring an outstanding work of world literature.
Lastly, the foundation provides grants for numerous literature-related projects.
The Fondation Jan Michalski offers a unique cultural space open to the world where writers, artists and members
of the public mix.
Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature
Chemin de Bois Désert 10
CH-1147 Montricher
fondation-janmichalski.com
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sncf GARES & CONNEXIONS,
PUTTING THE SPOTLIGHT ON CULTURE
SNCF Gares & Connexions began with the idea that railway stations are fully-fledged, living places at the
crossroads of many different paths. They are the lifeblood of cities. They transform regions and make daily life
easier. Accommodating ten million travellers, visitors and neighbours every day requires a strong commitment to
continuously enhancing the quality of operations, designing new services and updating heritage.
Since its inception, SNCF Gares & Connexions has put the cultural life of regions and cities at the heart
of railway stations. Our conviction is that art is essential for life, personal enrichment and social harmony.
SNCF Gares & Connexions puts art in a particularly successful, revealing spotlight, regularly offering railway station travellers, neighbours and passersby a wide range of continuously changing artistic and cultural events in
close connection with local cultural institutions and news.
SNCF Gares & Connexions has been a key partner of France’s greatest photography, contemporary art and music
events for many years. Today, over fifty railway stations nationwide bring culture to the daily lives of travellers and
neighbours year round.
SNCF Gares & Connexions is a key partner of the ImageSingulières, PhotoMed, La Gacilly and Circulation(s)
photography festivals. It takes advantage of every opportunity to introduce the public to noteworthy festivals across
France and remains steadfastly loyal to the Rencontres d’Arles. For the seventh consecutive year, it is promoting
the festival’s programme by exhibiting series of emblematic photographs in large formats at the railway stations of
Arles, of course, but also Paris-Gare de Lyon, Avignon TGV and Marseille St-Charles for a photographically dazzling
summer.
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YELLOWKORNER
YellowKorner promotes photography amongst a
wide audience. Driven by the passion of its
founders, Paul-Antoine Briat and Alexandre de Metz,
it has been showcasing new talent and encouraging
creativity since 2006.
YellowKorner’s network of 90 galleries worldwide
disseminates series by famous or emerging photographers with expertise and sets high standards for
making prints and publishing art books.
Exhibiting works by world famous artists in the heart
of Saint-Germain-des-Prés at the La Hune
bookstore-gallery, which the group bought in 2015,
now rounds out this exciting programme.
In keeping with the spirit of the Arles festival, last
year YellowKorner’s approach fostered productive
interactions between professionals and young
photographers at the Photo Folio Review. From
over 400 portfolios, a jury of experts selected works
by five artists considered the most promising.
They, including the winner, Piero Martinello, were
featured in this year’s official Rencontres d’Arles
programme.
The Swiss
Confederation
The Swiss Confederation is honoured to be a
partner of one of the world’s leading annual
photography events. To us, the pairing is natural.
In Switzerland, photography is as varied as the
cultures making up our country, a combination of
pride in our roots and openness to the world. As
the Rencontres’ programme highlights,
photography in Switzerland involves famous
institutions, schools, artists, festivals and all the
publishers reflecting that diversity. The 2016
Rencontres programme again emphasizes the
quality of Switzerland’s image ecosystem.
The nonante-neuf kept its initial promise when it
opened in 2015. Today, it confirms its goal of being
a place where people can feel welcome, have a
bite to eat, discuss a lot and above all meet each
other, comfortably ensconced in the shadow of its
large library.
It is called Nonante-neuf because so little lies
between quatre-vingt-dix-neuf and nonante-neuf,
the French and Swiss words for ninety, respectively: the object of a gaze—the gaze of the Swiss,
who overflow its central space this year to become
even more involved in the heart of this summer
whirlwind, accompanying Switzerland’s presence
in the programme and joining today’s debates on
photography with everybody who practices it.
Nonante-neuf: where the spirit of Switzerland
meets the enthusiasm of Arles.
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TECTONA
Awakening emotions, seeking out beauty, capturing the light of Provence… it was only natural for Tectona to
become a partner of the Rencontres d’Arles.
As a creator of outdoor furniture, Tectona breathed new life into the brand by giving designers the mission
of renewing its range. design is the sign of a vital, dynamic brand that dares to innovate and challenge itself.
Design brings forth creative solutions and looks to the future of the brand by analysing our habits and needs.
Thanks to the combination of elegance and quality in materials and treatments, Tectona has established itself over
nearly forty years as the benchmark for fine outdoor furniture. forms of classic simplicity, materials chosen for their
beauty and ability to defy the years, faultless quality produced by skilled craftsmanship allied with cutting-edge
technology: all these contribute to the timeless style of Tectona. bespeaking luxury without ostentation, Tectona
furniture is not for the moment, but for the long run.
Open your senses to the spellbinding light of Provence: Tectona furniture, provided to the Rencontres d’Arles for
the nonante-neuf terrace, invites visitors to slow down, relax, and absorb the marvellous encounters of this festival.
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photographers !
Focus on your priority:
your collective rights
Created in 1953, Adagp is the French royalty collecting and distribution society in the field of graphic and visual
arts. Supported by a global network of almost 50 sister companies, it currently represents more than 130,000 artists
in all disciplines of visual arts: painting, sculpting, photography, architecture, design, comic strips, manga,
illustrating, street art, digital creation, video art...
Adagp manages all the property rights held by artists (resale right, reproduction right, right of public communication, collective rights), for all modes of use : books, media, advertising, merchandise, auctions, gallery sales,
television, video on demand, websites, user sharing platforms…
More than 62,000 photographers from all around the world, are represented by Adagp, which collects and
distributes their royalties and rights to strengthen authors’ rights in France, Europe, and worldwide.
Subscribing to an authors’ rights association is the only way to receive the collective rights due to you
(private digital copying, reprography, cable broadcast, public lending, etc.).
You may also receive royalties if your original photographic prints are resold (resale rights).
Membership costs 15.24 euros with no annual contribution. Adagp’s management fees are 10% for collective rights.
Join us and get your fair dues.
Participate in our image bank to promote your works: http://bi.adagp.fr
Artists invent the world; ADAGP protects their rights.
Contact:
ADAGP
11, rue Berryer, 75008 Paris
+33 (0)1 43 59 09 79
[email protected]
adagp.fr
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saif
PHOTOGRAPHErS, join saif to defend
your rights!
SAIF is a French copyright collecting society whose mission is to defend, collect and distribute the royalties of
authors working in the visual arts. In 2016, SAIF represents more than 6,500 authors in France. Members collectively become the society’s shareholders (by buying a €15.24 stock upon joining) and democratically participate
in its decisions at the annual general meeting, and through its boards and commissions. Rights holders may also
join SAIF.
Joining SAIF allows authors to benefit from ‘collective’ rights.
‘Collective’ rights are legal payments that can be managed and collected by a copyright collecting society.
These rights concern all photographers whose work is published in books, the press, on the Internet or broadcast on television. The flourishing of new distribution techniques and platforms has made controlling the use of
artworks impossible; laws hence regularly institute new copyrights (or royalties) collectively managed by copyright collecting societies.
There are currently four 'collective' rights:
• the private copying remuneration : created in 1985, this remuneration compensates the possibility to realize copies of a work limited to a strict private usage. A levy is collected on the sale of
devices enabling to reproduce and store copies. At first collected on audiovisual medium, the
remuneration extended since 2001 to digital supports. 25 % of the remuneration is affected to
cultural activities, supporting festivals, for example.
• reprography rights: payment collected for photocopies of works published in the press or in
books.
• cable re-broadcasting rights: payment collected for the re-broadcasting of television programmes
over cable networks.
• public lending rights: payment for books lent by libraries.
Since 2007, SAIF also manages the royalties collected on the educational use of art works (agreements with the
Minister of National Education).
SAIF negotiates your intellectual property rights with television channels, Internet sites and portals, manages
resale rights (payment on the public resale, in auction houses and galleries, of original prints or works) and, if you
so wish, can also manage presentation rights (exhibitions) and reproduction rights (the press, books, postcards,
posters…).
SAIF works to defend and improve the protection of authors’ intellectual property rights. It also represents its
authors’ interests before national and international jurisdictions and administrations (Ministry of Culture, CSPLA,
European Union…) and works to collectively defend photographers’ rights.
SAIF
205, rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin
75010 Paris
01 44 61 07 82
[email protected]
saif.fr
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pinsent masons
LLP
rivedroit
avocats
International law firm Pinsent Masons LLP has long
been involved in pro bono sponsorship and
activities, including numerous partnerships in the
cultural domain. Initiated by photography
enthusiasts within the company, Pinsent Masons LLP
entered into a skills-based sponsorship agreement
with the Rencontres d’Arles in 2015, making its
lawyers’ expertise available to the festival.
Since its founding, the firm of Rivedroit Avocats has
deliberately chosen to take an active part, through
skills sponsorship, in promoting art and culture in all
its forms.
Skills-based corporate sponsor of the
Rencontres d'Arles 2016
Pinsent Masons LLP offers its clients a complete
range of services in all areas of business law.
It brings together more than 1,700 lawyers, among
whom 400 associates, mainly throughout Europe,
Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
The Paris office team, composed of forty lawyers,
fourteen of whom are associates, advises its French
and international clients at every stage and on all
the practices necessary to ensure that their
transactions and investment cycles run smoothly.
We are therefore able to offer quality consulting,
with a particular focus on new technology, media
and communications, e-commerce, intellectual
property, employment law, taxation, commercial
law and mergers-acquisitions, banking and finance,
real estate, litigation and arbitration, construction
law and public law.
Marketing:
Charlie Grausem
DDI: 01 53 53 09 81
[email protected]
Associate lawyer in charge of sponsorship:
Jean-François Rage
DDI: 01 53 53 09 64
[email protected]
pinsentmasons.com
provides skills sponsorship to the 2016
Rencontres de la photographie
After supporting the Paris Orchestra, Centre
Pompidou-Metz, and Quai Branly Museum, the firm
is delighted to sponsor the Rencontres d’Arles festival for the second year in a row.
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 develop close relationships with
their clients in France and abroad, helping them
with all legal aspects of their projects. Clients
include French and international corporations as
well as SMEs.
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.
Rivedroit A.A.R.P.I. press contact:
Elsa Tavernier – +33 (0)1.40.54.30.40
[email protected]
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ARTE and photography,
a love story
© Leslie Moquin, Shanghai Cosmetic
ARTE supports photography in its many forms.
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FRANCE INTER
PARTner of the
RENCONTRES
D'ARLES 2016
Once again, France Inter has chosen to accompany
the Rencontres d’Arles. Throughout summer, to
the rhythm of exhibitions, encounters and debates,
from reportage to portraits, traditional photography
to advertising, the festival explores all the forms and
issues relating to photography today.
France Inter will hence settle in Arles for the summer period, so as to allow its listeners to participate
in this not-to-be-missed event.
Programme and guest information can be found at
France Inter and franceinter.fr.
France Inter, the festival radio, in Arles on 91.3
Contact presse : Marion Glémet – 06 23 18 31 74
[email protected]
KONBINI,
PARTner of the
RENCONTRES de
la photographie
D’ARLES 2016
Konbini is delighted to be part of the latest edition of
the Rencontres d’Arles, the world's greatest photography event.
Every day, Konbini's international editorial team provides fresh creative content to inspire the curious and
the connected — in other words, those particularly in
tune with the spirit of the festival.
Throughout the summer, click on konbini.com for an
updated selection of photographs and exhibitions,
curated by our editors …
Created in 2008, Konbini® is a new generation media
site that already reaches over ten million unique visitors per month in over thirty countries.
With its fresh journalistic approach and offbeat
articles, Konbini is making a name for itself as a global
actor in pop culture. Thanks to Konbini’s active and
influential community, its content goes explosively
viral on social networks.
From Paris, London, New York, and Mexico, Konbini
covers a wide range of themes: entertainment,
culture, lifestyle, and society, with a pop, creative,
unique viewpoint.
Media partnership contact:
Maud Darabasz
[email protected]
06.50.64.49.82
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