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When Women Take on the Arts

The 53rd Rencontres d’Arles tackle a much-avoided, even controversial, issue: the exhibition “A Feminist Avant-Garde” takes us back to the 1970s to examine the role of photography in the feminist artistic affirmation of the time.

Are DSLR Cameras Going Extinct?

Amid rumors that Nikon is joining Canon in winding down development and production of DSLR cameras, a look back at the history and impact of the DLSR—and where it’s headed.

Young European Photographers, Episode 2: Sari (Finland)

In the second episode of the documentary series “Young European Photographers,” we meet Finnish artist Sari Soininen and her psychedelic perception of the world, deep in the forests of her childhood. She follows her mistress like a shadow and her wild expression is one of the photographer’s most beautiful shots. Sari Soininen’s little dog sees […]

In Lausanne, Plateforme 10 Unites Visual Arts

Inaugurated on June 18, the new art center Plateforme 10 in Lausanne, Switzerland, brings together three museums devoted to photography, painting, and contemporary art. Their first themed exhibition focuses on the train.

William Klein’s Unseen Photographs of Africa

A new show exhibits a rediscovered series of photographs Klein took on assignment in the early 1960s across West Africa, some never-before-seen.

Party Like It’s Y2K: Scenes From the New Millennium

Mark Hunter aka “The Cobrasnake” revisits an unparalleled era of indie sleaze glamour and nightlife.

Peter Fetterman: The Power of Photography

In a new book, collector and gallerist Peter Fetterman compiles 120 photographs from iconic photographers and new talents alike.

Peter Lindbergh, The Authentic

“It should be the responsibility of modern photographers to free women, and ultimately everyone, from the tyranny of youth and perfection.” This says everything. Peter Lindbergh is not just another fashion photographer. The great age of supermodels at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s—with Linda Evangelista, Estelle Lefébure, Karen Alexander and others on a […]

Trying to Preserve the History of One of LA’s Most Vibrant Neighborhoods

During the pandemic, Emanuel Hahn set out to photograph Los Angeles’ famed Koreatown as way to work out a creative rut, looking at how Covid-19 and gentrification were changing the area. But as he spent more time with the shopkeepers he met, the project became a way to create a record of the lives of the Korean immigrants who have made Koreatown what it is today.

A Sizzling Portrait of Times Square in the 1980s

Jane Dickson revisits the photography practice that allowed her to record and preserve observations that she would later transform into paintings.

Brazil, Fever, Parties & Carnivals

One of the most elegant covered passages in the center of Paris has made room for two Brazilian megacities, Rio de Janeiro and Belém, as they plunge into the splendor and fury of carnivalesque rites and festivities. Entitled “Fever”, Vincent Rosenblatt’s exhibition is on view at the Pierre Passebon Gallery. It offers an eye-popping parade […]

Ukrainian Refugees Look to Slovakia for a New Home

As the War in Ukraine continues, refugees continue to flee from the conflict into neighboring countries. In Slovakia, the Ukrainians who have come to the country work to integrate their lives with those of their new neighbors.

Blind’s Top 10 at Arles 2022 Book Awards

The Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles award 4 book prizes. Three are selected by the Rencontres team: the author’s book prize, the history book prize, and the photo-text prize. The fourth, Luma Foundation’s famous Dummy Book Award, recognizes an unpublished book project. Concurrently, here is our selection of the 10 best publications presented during the […]

Looking at Life After Conflict Through the Work of the International Criminal Court

For 20 years, the International Criminal Court has been meeting with survivors of conflict, their families, and their communities to hear the stories of the worst crimes. Photographers Rena Effendi, Pete Muller, and Finbarr O’Reilly bring their work documenting some of the stories as witnessed by outreach staff in 5 countries to an exhibition at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. A special chapter on the Democratic Republic of the Congo is also part of the exhibition.

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 […]