Noémie Goudal: Not our Time
In this interview, artist Noémie Goudal reveals the process behind her work Phoenix, exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles festival, questioning the human notion of time, our perception of the environment and of the images we make of it. The title Phoenix makes me think of Greek mythology, the bird that dies in flames and is […]
Mitch Epstein in India: Tableaux of Reality and Illusion
Exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Mitch Epstein’s “In India, 1978-1989” reveals his double vantage point as a westerner and a family member in a complex culture that is often represented one-dimensionally. A quote from his recently published book In India opens this interview, where he talks about the importance of this body of work […]
Donna Ferrato’s Lifelong Campaign for Women’s Rights
With Roe v. Wade overturned, the United States faces a reckoning. Photographer Donna Ferrato’s work sheds light on women’s struggles.
Lucien Clergue: The Arlesian
Grand Arles Express 2022 features a tribute to the photographer Lucien Clergue, co-founder of the Rencontres d’Arles.
At the Heart of Working-class Soccer
Planète Z, as seen through Jeanne Frank’s lens, is on view at the Grange-aux-Belles cultural center in Paris until July 15: experience these very special stands, part and parcel of the Bauer Stadium and Red Star Football Club.
Intimacy as the Compass
The Louis Roederer Discovery Award spotlights ten projects at the Rencontres d’Arles 2022 that take intimacy as their starting point.
The Golden Age of James Barnor
The Rencontres d’Arles pays tribute to James Barnor, born in Ghana in 1929. From his Ever Young studio, opened in Accra in 1953 to the chromatic years of Swinging London, two exhibitions retrace the itinerary of an intuitive man who never stopped believing in the power of photography.
The Quest for a Blind Spot in Christ’s Iconography
The French photographer Jacqueline Salmon embarked on an unprecedented, five-year-long photographic and documentary adventure: she turned her lens to the blind spot in Christ’s iconography—the perizonium, or the veil of modesty that covers his pelvis. Her work of pure photographic composition is on display at the Réattu Museum as part of the Rencontres d’Arles festival.
Léa Habourdin: Forest-Images
A major theme in contemporary artistic expression, this year nature is again at the heart of many exhibitions at the annual Rencontres d’Arles photography festival. For the festival, it’s a way of reflecting one of today’s major concerns, but it’s also a way of reflecting the diversity of artistic approaches. Blind takes a closer look […]
Red Cross and Photography: Linked Fates
The Red Cross, in collaboration with the Rencontres d’Arles, presents a rarely exhibited photographic heritage. “To Heal a World” is a survey of the history of humanitarian photography from 1850 to the present.
Movement and Space Through the Eyes of Babette Mangolte
The photographer, filmmaker, cinematographer, artist, and author of critical essays Babette Mangolte is being honored with the Women in Motion Photography Prize at the Rencontres d’Arles photography showcase for her body of work, which spans fifty years and has focused on dance, performance, cinema experimental cinema, subjectivity and the spectator.
Lee Miller: From Vogue to Buchenwald and Dachau
The exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles retraces the most intense decade in the life of the American model and photographer Lee Miller, who became a war correspondent during World War II.
Bernard Plossu’s Italian Miniatures
In the exhibition “Plossu – Granet, Italia Discreta,” concentrated on Italy, the curators Bruno Ely and Pamela Grimaud create links between Bernard Plossu’s photographs and the paintings of François-Marius Granet.
Sandra Brewster: « Blur », to Regain a Sense of Self
In her “Blur” series, “a metaphor for movement or change from one place to another,” the Canadian multimedia artist continues to investigate memory and migration, while honoring her community. A minimalist exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles.
Feathered Divas
Twelve international photographers, one theme. The Galerie le Château d’eau in Toulouse is hosting “Birds” until August 21. Diversity – black and white, color, small and large formats – is featured in this exhibition inspired by the eponymous book collection of Atelier EXB.
Young Maroon Photographers Reappropriate Their Own History
The exhibition “Marronnage: The Art of Breaking One’s Chains,” presented at the Maison d’Amérique Latine in Paris, features a section dedicated to photography by young Maroon artists who are taking possession of their own history.
From Beyoncé to Burna Boy: Daniel Obasi’s Revolutionary Afrofuturism
The Nigerian photographer uses art as a tool of social activism to confront systems of power used to oppress vulnerable communities.
Exploring Female Power, Sexuality and Dominance
Helmut Newton and Renée Jacobs co-exhibit their erotic photographs of women as subject rather than object.
Communism(s): A Cold War Album
Autocracy is on the rise. An obvious statement maybe, but one rooted more and more firmly in the present albeit with a shaky-hand salute to the past. From Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan, through Napoleon, Stalin, and Hitler, and more recently, Hussein, Assad, and Orban, autocratic rule has caught fire and threatens the order […]
From One Exile to Another
In her exhibition “Desmemoria”, Laetitia Tura weaves together stories of refugees who had once crossed the French-Spanish border to escape fascism and those who, in the present, are following the same path, risking their lives and traveling thousands of miles.
Music and Photography: Two Great Tastes That Go Together
“For the Record: Photography and the art of the Album Cover” is a musical trawl through the history of photography. Curated from the collection of Antoine de Beaupré, it features images by the great, the anonymous, and the forgotten.
Thomas Hoepker Looks Back at Six Decades of Photojournalism
The Magnum Photos member revisits his storied career in a new exhibition and monograph.
Laurent Reyes: A 21st-Century Beatnik
Canicule, Laurent Reyes’s book, published by Arnaud Bizalion, records his and his friends’ daily life spent sunbathing and flirting like twenty-first-century beatniks.
Revisiting the Wild Nightlife Scene of Late ‘90s UK
Ewen Spencer looks back at the start of his career documenting British nightclub culture for Sleazenation magazine.
Living on the Streets in One of America’s Richest Cities
For six years, Robert Gumpert documented the unhoused in San Francisco. Division Street is the culmination, named for the street where the project began. Combining first-person narratives, found text and Gumpert’s photographs, it is the story of lives lived on the streets in one of the richest cities in America.
Guillaume Herbaut: “When you cover a conflict, I think it is essential to know the country, its culture, and its history”
A member of the VU’ Agency since 2021, Guillaume Herbaut has been observing history and current events with a keen eye for over thirty years. Ranging from photojournalism to visual art, his work brings a breath of fresh air to documentary photography. Blind sat down to an open conversation about professional photojournalism in the present […]
The Historic Selma to Montgomery March
In Selma to Montgomery March, published by Tritone Press, photographer Wayne Levin revisits his archive and the famous civil rights protest that resulted in the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Thomas Boivin: The Art of Hand-held Camera
In his “true” second book, Belleville, Boivin homes in on a territory that is familiar to him, without trying to comment on it socially or even intellectually. Pure joy.
Tender Portraits of Black Girls Coming of Age
A new exhibition brings together the work of over 85 Black women, girls, and genderqueer artists to radically reimagine our world through their gaze.
Black Power and Pride on the Streets of New York
With “Positive Images,” Russell Frederick uses photography to uplift, empower, and celebrate Black culture and identity.
Andreas Vassiliou: A Cypriot Life
Andreas Vassiliou’s Cypriots, published by Tritone Press, looks back at some of the photographer’s most poignant images of his native island.
100 Churches in Venice
A tour of Venetian churches by photographer Alejandro Merizalde.
Maurice Broomfield: When Things Could Only Get Better
Featuring pictures of steelworks, weaving looms, and giant gears. Maurice Broomfield’s wonderful images of British industry capture both the optimism of 1960s Britain, but also the otherworldly nature of industrial sights.
Corsica of Yesterday, by Jacques Boyer
Photographer and “science publicist,” Jacques Boyer immortalized Corsica in the early twentieth century.
Political and Social Struggles in Ireland
The exhibition “Protest!” presented at the Gallery of Photography Ireland, Dublin, looks back on the works of more than 40 photographers on various political and social struggles that took place in Ireland from the 1960s.
Following the Call: Celebrating the Spirit of Black Egypt
Chester Higgins Jr.’s new book Sacred Nile explores the timeless role of faith as it connects past and present.
August Sander: A Universal Œuvre
The Centre Pompidou exhibition, in Paris, devoted to the innovative New Objectivity movement of the 1920s, showcases August Sander’s work, distributed among seven thematic groups, just the way the photographer had originally intended.
Nadav Kander on Following the Thread of Inspiration
The Prix Pictet-winning photographer’s work, from celebrity portraiture to atmospheric landscapes, is neatly tied together in a new exhibition at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.
ImageSingulières: The Art of Time
Dwarfed by the mammoth Arles and Perpignan festivals, ImageSingulières defends documentary photography in its own way. Highly anticipated after a two-year-long interruption, the 14th iteration of the festival, held in Sète until June 12, has attracted hundreds of visitors to date.
Through the Window
Khashayar Javanmardi photographs Iran through train windows.
Inside Italian Psychiatric Prisons
“O.p.g Criminal Asylum” is photographer and editor Mauro D’Agati’s immersion in the psychiatric prisons of Napoli, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Castiglione delle Stiviere and Aversa, Italy, in 2001. A few years later these judicial psychiatric hospitals closed, an event that marks the history of the health care reform and custody system for people with mental […]
What Thai Youth Has to Say
A street photographer, an enthusiast of raw collages, and a documentary photographer: three young Thais present their vision of their transforming country.
After the crimes
The photographer Pawel Starzec shows in his photos where war crimes took place during
the Bosnian War, 30 years ago. By doing so, he not only documents the crimes but he also
opens up difficult questions about how the country remembers these events.
From the Bronx to the 2024 Olympic Games, Breaking Rises Again
Frank “B-boy Frankie” Perez offers an insider’s look at Hip Hop’s legendary dance form.
Elizaveta Porodina: Psychedelic Melancholy
Fotografiska Stockholm showcases the fashion and art photographer Elizaveta Porodina with the exhibition окна [okna] (windows). A world première.
