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The Rencontres d’Arles is an indispensable event for photography in France and abroad. Although last year’s festival could not be held, to pay tribute to the artists, the festival and its partners joined forces to ensure that the prizes for 2020 be awarded (Women In Motion – Kering, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award…). I am also delighted that multiple exhibitions from 2020’s program have found a place at the festival in 2021. In a few months, we all hope, this unique event on the art of photography will begin. This year’s festival features around twenty exhibitions in Arles, and several other sites associated with the festival in the region, as part of Grand Arles Express, including Mucem, FRAC PACA, Collection Lambert, and Centre Photographique Marseille. In his first official year as festival director, Christoph Wiesner has chosen to emphasize emerging artists. The 2021 Louis Roederer Discovery Award will be showcased in particular, with Sonia Voss as curator and Amanda Antunes for scenography. The festival also reflects the social changes that photography is continually attesting to, featuring, notably, a section on the topics of gender and identity. With emerging scenes, large group exhibitions, powerful themes, established artists and artists from around the globe figuring prominently, the festival is undeniably a major event in photography. The Ministry of Culture backs the Rencontres d’Arles with energy, pride, and conviction. With that, I’d like to wish every success to the 52nd year of the Rencontres d’Arles, and thank everyone on the team for their tenacity and passionate defense of photographers and photography.

3 WORD FROM THE MAYOR Patrick de Carolis Mayor of Arles

“How good it is to steer forever towards desire” are the ones to inherit this exceptional legacy, Frédéric Mistral justly wrote. After long months, and those that take in photography in all its forms. so hard and so deprived of cultural exchange and Likewise, the Rencontres d’Arles is both founder artistic emotion, it is equally right to express how and heir. It has shown work by photography’s eagerly we await the Rencontres d’Arles 2021. pioneers, preserved, notably, in the magnificent This year’s festival is unique because it celebrates collection at the Musée Réattu constituted two different legacies: one of monuments conceded by Jean-Maurice Rouquette and Lucien Clergue. by UNESCO forty years ago, and one of photography, It has also articulated new trends and new, even now an integral part of Arles’ heritage. These two unconventional perspectives by presenting artistic legacies mirror each other as our monuments host creation, enquiry and testimony to the public. festival exhibitions, lending them vivacity and The city of Arles and the Rencontres d’Arles resonance. The permanent back-and-forth movement share an affinity for light: the light shined on between the History inscribed in stone and the one our streets and our natural heritage, and the shown on gallery walls is at the very core of a festival light that writes the photographic image. which contributes to Arles’ international image. Under the leadership of Christoph Wiesner and And both these events attest to the lives of human the whole Rencontres team, and the enduring beings, with their faith, their search for light, commitment of Hubert Védrine, this light their desire to leave signs of their passage, tragic reflects back to tell us about the world. or sublime. Ultimately, over the years, the endless search for a manner to these memories we’d like This year we celebrate Arles’ heritage, able to leave behind has established a genuine to unite builders and creators. Each summer conversation between the city and photography. they demonstrate together that an hourglass alone doesn’t make something valuable, rather, Thus spins the endless tale; we continue to feed it, it’s the understanding between these two, where helping it grow bigger, nourishing everyone through the former stands as a living backdrop to the latter, gatherings and exchange, supported by the State or endlessly searching for new techniques and effects. local government, the Region and the Department. Would it have been possible for this International Thus, we are delighted to find new sites being Photography to exist someplace else before uncovered, like the Jardin d’été opening to the festival coming to Arles? I prefer to think not, while for the first time this year, and soon our small towns feeling everyone’s mounting enthusiasm. and hamlets in Crau and the Camargue will welcome similar enterprises—anywhere, essentially, that Unable to exchange culture, we plunged into invites the people of Arles to nourish themselves shadows which clouded the entire country. through exhibitions and what they express of the In July 2021, in Arles, light will break on the city, world which comes traveling to us. I am hoping on its monuments, its residents, and on photography. that even more residents will come discover this Welcome please, once again, dear festival-goers. year’s festival, and future festivals, because they

4 WORD FROM MANY THANKS THE PRESIDENT TO ALL OUR PARTNERS!

Hubert Védrine The Rencontres d’Arles wishes to thank the President of the Rencontres d’Arles Ministry of Culture, the National Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the Provence‐ This summer, we will be especially happy to welcome Alpes‐Côte d’Azur Regional Council, the you to Arles for the Rencontres de la photographie. Bouches-du-Rhône department, the city of More than ever, we need to get together and Arles, and all our public partners who showed celebrate culture. The 51st edition did not take their enduring support again this year. place in 2020, a year without festivals. In 2021, For this year’s festival, the Rencontres we will offer you the 52nd, a balance between key d’Arles is pleased to be associated with large shows that could not be held last year and exciting national and international institutions, new proposals. This is a transitional year between such as the Barbican Centre in London, two directors: we welcomed Christoph Wiesner as Aperture New York, the École Nationale the new head of the festival in September 2020. Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles, It is important for us to be present in Arles’ the Institut pour la Photographie de Lille, increasingly rich cultural ecosystem. Much and to be included in Africa Season2020. to our delight, culture is growing by leaps We would like to thank all our sponsors and and bounds in Arles. The opening of Luma, private partners for their generosity and renewed planned for this summer, which we welcome, trust, firstly the Luma Foundation, BMW Art is eagerly anticipated well beyond Arles. & Culture, SNCF Gares & Connexions, Kering, The festival’s local and regional influence no the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture longer needs demonstrating. The Grand Arles et la Littérature, the Prix Pictet, Lët’z Arles Express, in particular, is increasingly successful (Luxembourg), the Louis Roederer Foundation, from year to year. In 2021, the Rencontres d'Arles the Swiss Confederation, and many others will once again take place within a network of which space prevents us from listing. friendly institutions. Photography is once again We wish to underline the precious support highlighted and honored in the South of France. brought by our partners of places in particular Even further afield, international cooperation the city of Arles, the Arles Crau Camargue remains on the agenda with the seventh Jimei x Arles Montagnette metropolitan area, the Foundation International Photography Festival in November and Luma, but also the SNCF, Monoprix Arles, a new collaboration with India’s Serendipity Arts the Association du Méjan, and this year for Foundation that has led to the creation of a major the first time the Museon Arlaten – Musée grant for photography, video and new media. The grant de Provence which opens its doors to us will enable a young Indian artist to develop his project to inaugurate the Chapelle des Jésuites. and present it at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2022. Finally, we are thrilled to confirm the support Like every year, the Rencontres d'Arles is sharing of our main media partners, who help promote the adventure with jobless people. It thus the festival’s image to everyone: France Inter, plays a major social role in the Arles area. ARTE, Konbini, LCI, Le Point and Madame Figaro. I can assure you that the Rencontres team is doing everything possible to welcome you to Arles this summer in the best possible conditions.

5 SUMMER OF FIREFLIES Christoph Wiesner Director of the Rencontres d’Arles

Should we invent a new rite of passage for this very of our existence beyond gender and beyond bounds. peculiar time? Retouch this blank year in technicolor? Also, as the pandemic leads us to question the limits The urgency of the present calls for commitment of humanity, Rethink Everything introduces us to above all—a commitment on the part of the a Latin American scene with a feminist practice Rencontres d’Arles to the photographers, artists, probing the body as well as society in all its aspects. curators, partners and institutions with which the The question of representation is also addressed festival has forged such strong ties for so many years. with the exhibition The New Black Vanguard, which Far from imagining a tabula rasa tempting us to celebrates the black body in all its diversity, striding break away from the suspended time induced by the the disciplines of art, fashion and culture. pandemic, it becomes about reflecting on how to These multiple viewpoints on the world find an update a heritage: that of last year’s festival, developed echo in Pieter Hugo’s introspective Being Present. by Sam Stourdzé around the theme of resistance, A focus on the portrait brings us to many places and the photography that in his words, “stands up, on earth, but asks us to take the perspective of the opposes, denounces…re-enchants.” I wanted the other. And turning toward the other, to distant program to be built around these premises, taking horizons, is also what the Atlas section offers. Here them further, with variations and echoes, new again, we’re invited to travel, and to look at a map additions and derivations that allow us to grasp this covering geography, history, sociology and psychology. force as well, the urgent need for the Rencontres So, we’ll find perspectives from South Africa, but d’Arles to gauge the pulse of the world. If the skies are also from Sudan and Chile, to move us across the not yet clear, if the light is still dim this summer, we globe. The Rencontres is also about revisiting the must still make visible the multiplying bursts of light history of the medium of photography and its players. produced by the invited photographers and artists. Thus, the opening of Charlotte Perriand’s archives If Pier Paolo Pasolini understood how the tension express how photography and photomontage produced by the fierce spotlights of power played a decisive role in her creative process, threaten the flashes of light from opposing powers, both in her aesthetic development and political Georges Didi-Huberman offers hope in Survival involvement in the 1930s. Then we must mention of the Fireflies (2009). According to him, we must Sabine Weiss, who turns 97 this year. Her work will recognize a resistance in the smallest firefly, a light be shown at the chapelle des Jésuites of the Museon for all thought.” Photography continues to emit Arlaten, a brand-new venue for the Rencontres. light signals, opening up spaces for new methods These are just the first flashes offered by the of resistance. Arles in midsummer will be like festival this summer. Along with the Rencontres’ a constellation of fireflies, made up of a thousand executive director, Aurélie de Lanlay, and the lights illuminating the diversity of regards, polyphony entire team, we invite you to discover the rest of stories, and symbolizing the survival of hope of the program opening July 4th in Arles. and consciousness-raising by means of the image. The sites chosen for the festival this year offer as varied a scenery as an atmosphere, in keeping with the program’s diversity. They take place at heritage, historical sites downtown, at Atelier de la Mécanique in Parc des Ateliers, at Monoprix and Croisière, and out to several city gardens. In the Église Frères Prêcheurs at the center of Arles, Emergences takes up residence this year with the Louis Roederer Discovery Award in a new format. Each year now, a new curator will express their vision of trends in young contemporary art. The year 2021 was entrusted to Sonia Voss, who uses a new design concept that puts the projects into dialogue with one other. A walk through the modernist building housing Monoprix leads to a universe where identity and fluidity come together. SMITH’s Desideration is a multi-sensory exploration at the crossroads of different practices, in which photography, narration, fiction and form become one; it’s a voyage to a poetic cosmos, asking each one of us the essential question 6 PROGRAM

p. 11 p. 29 IDENTITIES/FLUIDITIES ATLAS MASCULINITIES THAWRA! REVOLUTION ! LIBERATION THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY SUDAN, THE HISTORY OF AN UPRISING CLARISSE HAHN PIETER HUGO PRINCES OF THE STREETS BEING PRESENT SÉBASTIEN LIFSHITZ STÉPHAN GLADIEU SENSITIVE BOYS DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, PORTRAITS DESIDERATION (ANAMANDA SÎN) FROM DISASTER TO DESIRE: ANTON KUSTERS TOWARDS ANOTHER SPACE MYTHOLOGY BLUE SKIES RETHINK EVERYTHING CHOW AND LIN THE POWER OF ART IN TIMES OF ISOLATION THE POVERTY LINE THE NEW BLACK VANGUARD AFRICA STATE OF MIND PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN ART AND FASHION HYBRID CITIES ENRIQUE RAMÍREZ p. 18 MIGRANT GARDENS

EMERGENCES p. 35 LOUIS ROEDERER DISCOVERY AWARD 2021 REREADING THE THIRD LINE/HELENA ANRATHER CHARLOTTE PERRIAND FARAH AL QASIMI HOW DO WE WANT TO LIVE? POLITICS OF PHOTOMONTAGE GALERIE FRANK ELBAZ KETUTA ALEXI-MESKHISHVILI SABINE WEISS A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE DISPLAY MARIANA HAHN JAZZ POWER ! JAZZ MAGAZINE, MABA | FONDATION DES ARTISTES TWENTY YEARS IN THE AVANT-GARDE (1954–1974) ILANIT ILLOUZ ORIENT-EXPRESS & Cie FOLKWANG UNIVERSITY OF THE ART BETWEEN HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY JONAS KAMMS

AS-IS.LA GALLERY p. 41 TARRAH KRAJNAK FONDATION A STICHTING TRIBUTE MASSAO MASCARO RAYMOND CAUCHETIER WEBBER GALLERY NEW WAVE ZORA J MURFF THE PILL AYKAN SAFOĞLU p. 44 BERLINISCHE GALERIE – ARLES BOOKS MUSEUM OF MODERN ART BERLIN ANDRZEJ STEINBACH NEUF FROM A TO Z DELPIRE BEFORE DELPIRE PRAGOVKA GALLERY MARIE TOMANOVA THE BOOK AWARDS SIM CHI YIN LUMA RENCONTRES ONE DAY WE’LL UNDERSTAND DUMMY BOOK AWARD ALMUDENA ROMERO ARLES 2021 THE PIGMENT CHANGE LEBOGANG TLHAKO SIBADALA SIBANCANE ANYSSIA BIDOUT, EMMA RIVIERA & CÉDRINE SCHEIDIG SPECIAL ATTENTION 7 SATELLITES

p. 48 SAINT-RÉMY-DE-PROVENCE ASSOCIATED ARLES MUSÉE ESTRINE MICHEL SIMA LËT’Z ARLES Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso Daniel Reuter & Lisa Kohl Through Michel Sima’s Lens LES AILLEURS Incarnation p. 62 FONDATION MANUEL RIVERA-ORTIZ System Echoes OPENING WEEK ASSOCIATION DU MÉJAN THE NIGHTS Jean-Luc Bertini Jean-Michel André THE DAY Reeve Schumacher Pauline Fargue Magnum and Street Photography p. 67 MUSÉE DE LA CAMARGUE Cecil Ka ARLES & CO. ASSOCIATION DU MÉJAN Jean-Pierre Formica p. 55 MUSÉE RÉATTU Graziano Arici GRAND ARLES Dorothea Lange EXPRESS AVIGNON p. 69

COLLECTION LAMBERT JÉRÔME TAUB OUTSIDE ARLES Purple America JIMEI X ARLES ASSOCIATION JEAN VILAR INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL STAGE LEFT SERENDIPITY ARLES GRANT JEAN VILAR AND AVIGNON

MARSEILLE p. 71 CENTRE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE MARSEILLE CAMILLE FALLET EDUCATION For Whom the Bell Tolls (Go) & TRAINING MUCEM ILARIA TURBA PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS Yearning to See Far IMAGE EDUCATION FRAC PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D’AZUR KATIA KAMELI She Lit the Fire of the Past P. 75 CLARISSE HAHN Los Desnudos PRACTICAL MOUGINS INFORMATION LE CENTRE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE MOUGINS P. 80 ISABEL MUÑOZ 1001 PARTNERS NÎMES

BIBLIOTHÈQUE CARRÉ D'ART MICHEL GLAIZE Conversations with Muybridge

CARRÉ D'ART TARIK KISWANSON Mirrorbody JEFF WEBER 8 A NEW GRAPHIC ARLES 2021 MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE MINISTÈRE DE DE L’ÉDUCATION NATIONALE, DE LA JEUNESSE ET DES SPORTS DIRECTION RÉGIONALE DES AFFAIRES CULTURELLES PACA IDENTITY LES RENCONTRES RÉGION PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D’AZUR DÉPARTEMENT DES BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE VILLE D’ARLES PHOTOGRAPH (DETAIL): SMITH, DESIDERATION, 2000-2021. COURTESY LES FILLES DU CALVAIRE GALLERY. DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DESIGN ABM STUDIO ABM Studio 4 JULY → 26 SEPTEMBER In the beginning was the A. The A of Arles. The A as symbol. Christoph Wiesner, director of the Rencontres d’Arles, and Aurélien Valette, communications manager, are renewing ABM in order to rethink festival communications. After flipping the photograph around to give the Rencontres a decidedly modern identity and image, ABM Studio is following up on its radical, context- specific rethinking of communications and the festival’s brand. How can we make meaning and contact, once a year, in such a competitive, saturated visual environment? Connect to the festival’s marketing history, break away from it, and draw from the dynamic Sam Stourdzé developed over the years? How can a design studio reinvent itself without repeating? Seize the excellent and rare opportunity to end a well-established project, one that’s praised and anticipated each year, and reinvent itself following the vision and program of a new, passionate artistic direction…? By opting for a project as daring as it is different, in which photography participates in a subtle dialogue with a very present, cutting edge and symbolic graphic image. So, the A is for Arles—and the first letter of a story yet to come. A as a sign which, according to its variation, exceeds the limits of the frame to become an abstract, graphic form guided by what is needed and desired. An A in the foreground, slightly transparent, playing with the subject of the photo, letting the image reveal itself. A white or colored halo diffuses a light to bring out the text, creating a transition zone between letter and photograph through the use of a light screen. And a font: ‘Media Sans’ by French type foundry Production Type. It was selected for its design inspired by fonts found in 1960s press, revisited by Jean-Baptiste Levée and his team for a modern version with multiple weights. This first year, photographs from SMITH’s series The photograph featured on the 2021 poster was shot by SMITH. Untitled, from the Desideration series, 2000-2021. Desideration interrogate and expose the world of Courtesy of the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire. photography and society, caught in the aftermath of the health crisis and a year with no festival. We come out of this frozen time following a little hope and light, taking a few steps forward, and plunging into sidereal shadow.

9 ARLES 2021 LES RENCONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PROGRAM IDENTITIES/ FLUIDITIES NADINE IJEWERE Untitled, 2018. The New Black Vanguard, Photography between Art and Fashionexhibition. 12 MÉCANIQUE GÉNÉRALE MASCULINITIES LIBERATION THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY Exhibition curator: Alona Pardo. Bas Jan Ader (1945-1975), Laurie Anderson (1947), Kenneth Anger (1927), Exposition organized by the Knut Åsdam (1968), Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Aneta Bartos, Barbican Centre, London Publication: Masculinities: Richard Billingham (1970), Cassils (1975), Sam Contis (1982), Liberation through Photography, John Coplans (1920‑2003), Rineke Dijkstra (1959), George Dureau (1930-2014), Prestel, 2020. Thomas Dworzak (1972), Hans Eijkelboom (1949), Fouad Elkoury (1952), Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), Hal Fischer (1950), Samuel Fosso (1962), Anna Fox (1961), Masahisa Fukase (1934‑2012), Sunil Gupta (1953), Peter Hujar (1934-1987), Liz Johnson Artur (1964), Isaac Julien (1960), Kiluanji Kia Henda (1979), Karen Knorr (1954), Deana Lawson (1979), Hilary Lloyd (1964), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), Peter Marlow (1952- 2016), Ana Mendieta (1948‑1985), Annette Messager (1943), Duane Michals (1932), Tracey Moffatt (1960), Andrew Moisey (1979), Richard Mosse (1980), Adi Nes (1966), Catherine Opie (1961), Elle Pérez (1989), Herb Ritts (1952-2002), Kalen Na’il Roach (1992), Collier Schorr (1963), Paul Mpagi Sepuya (1982), Clare Strand (1973), Mikhael Subotzky (1981), Larry Sultan (1946-2009),Hank Willis Thomas (1976), Wolfgang Tillmans (1968), Piotr Uklański (1968), Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006), Marianne Wex (1937‑2020), David Wojnarowicz (1954‑1992), Akram Zaatari (1966) Through the medium of film and photography, this major exhibition considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. Examining depictions of masculinity from behind the lens, the exhibition brings together the work of over 50 international artists, photographers and filmmakers including Laurie Anderson, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Catherine Opie. In the wake of #MeToo, the image of masculinity has come into sharper focus, with ideas of toxic and fragile masculinity permeating today’s society. This exhibition charts the often complex and sometimes contradictory representations of masculinities, and how they have developed and evolved over time. Touching on themes including power, patriarchy, queer identity, racial politics, female perceptions of men, hypermasculine stereotypes, tenderness and the family, the exhibition examines the critical role photography and film have played in the way masculinities are imagined and understood in contemporary culture. With support from Fluxus Art Projects.

MÉCANIQUE GÉNÉRALE CLARISSE HAHN Born 1973 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris.

Prints by Laboratoire Cyclope, Paris. PRINCES OF THE STREETS Framing by Circad, Paris. A working-class neighborhood in Paris, its market, trafficking, and kebab, Clarisse Hahn is nominated for bodies intersecting, sometimes presenting. Money flows at the rate of the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles 2021. looks. Cigarette vendors reign beneath the metro overpass at Barbès. They are champions of observation; nothing escapes their notice. The series Princes of the Streets is part of Hahn’s work-in-progress Boyzone, a project analyzing moments in which men’s bodies choreograph their relationship to public and private space. Bodies and looks: Hahn’s film and photography on communities and rituals goes beyond the subject’s consenting to be viewed, showing how social beings make use of the gaze we turn towards them in order to express themselves: let yourself be seen without being had. By including archival photos, Hahn creates a desynchronization that allows invisible genealogies to come forward. These young men are descendants of French heroes recruited during the colonial period. Barbès, the Cour des Miracles, takes in both elderly and outsider, but the wounds of the marginalized are difficult to heal—flesh scars just like memory. Michel Poivert With support from KADIST.

13 MÉCANIQUE GÉNÉRALE SÉBASTIEN LIFSHITZ Born 1968 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris.

Projection coproduced by INA and the Rencontres d’Arles. SENSITIVE BOYS Until the end of the 1960s, French television was entirely devoid of any representation, or even mention, of homosexuality. It was not until the early 1970s that a broadcast on homosexuality was aired for the first time and the word was finally pronounced. Of course, invisibility is not the whole story. Despite television censorship, homosexuality slipped through. Though these rare moments were codified and full of innuendo, expressed through the words of a famous figure (writer, painter, actor) or via popular musicians or burlesque sketches, and often homophobic, they nevertheless revealed a certain perspective on homosexuality. While, some topics, like antiquity or reports on the Army, could clearly depict homoeroticism. Gathered together here, Sensitive Boys puts these records into conversation to tell the story of resistance from a not-so-distant time when homosexuality had no place. With support from Sézane.

MONOPRIX DESIDERATION (ANAMANDA SÎN)

A project led by SMITH, FROM DISASTER TO DESIRE: Diplomats and Lucien Raphmaj. TOWARDS ANOTHER SPACE MYTHOLOGY With François Chaignaud, Gaspar Claus, Nadège Piton, Zélia Smith, Exploring the porous nature of artistic and scientific practice, Anna Milone, Adrian Gebhart, etc. philosophy and speculative narratives, Desideration offers another Publication: Désidération (Anamanda Sîn), SMITH and space mythology, imagining an interstellar human race searching for Lucien Raphmaj, Éditions Textuel, a new alliance with its native cosmos. Playing on its troubled etymology, 2021. Prints by Picto, Paris. oscillating between a regret for the lost stars (de-sideris) and a desire for their return, desideration is both a diagnosis of and a remedy for contemporary disaster, for late capitalism and the chilling anthropocene. Our civilization seems to have lost some fundamental part of its daily relationship to the starry sky. This simple fact, which shines a light on the material and spiritual destruction of our societies, requires a new configuration of the imagination, a dream zone where new mythologies peopled by hybrid figures come together to make a new pact with the cosmos. Thus, in the terrestrial figure of Anamanda Sîn, we find a new sensibility, one in which meteorites link past and future, earth and sky, art and science, non-human and human, melancholy and desire. With support from Picto Foundation and Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris. See the extension of the Desideration exhibition at Avignon TGV station. With support from SNCF Gares & Connexions

14 ESPACE VAN GOGH RETHINK EVERYTHING

Exhibition curator: Andrea THE POWER OF ART IN TIMES OF ISOLATION Giunta, in collaboration with María José Arjona (1973), Ananké Asseff (1971), Florencia Giordana Braun, Julieta Tarraubella and Colectivo Nosotras Proponemos (2017), Nicola Costantino (1964), Florencia Rugiero. Milagros De La Torre (1965), Vivian Galban (1969), María Teresa Hincapié (1956‑2008), Exhibition produced by Rolf Art, Adriana Lestido (1955), Florencia Levy (1979), Marcos López (1958), in collaboration with the Rencontres d'Arles. Liliana Maresca (1951–1994), Joiri Minaya (1990), Marta Minujín (1943), Publications: Puisqu'il fallait tout Aline Motta (1974), Rodrigo Orrantia (1975), Jackie Parisier (1968), repenser, delpire & co, 2021. Cristina Piffer (1953), Santiago Porter (1971), Dalila Puzzovio (1942), (French edition); Rethink Everything, delpire José Alejandro Restrepo (1959), Silvia Rivas (1957), Celeste Rojas Mugica (1987), & co, 2021 (English edition); Graciela Sacco (1956 – 2017), Juan Travnik (1950) Pensar todo de nuevo, Ediciones Larivière, 2021 (Spanish edition). Here and now, we are traversing an unrepresentable pandemic time. Framing by Circad, Paris. Thanks to MALBA (Museo de Arte Strange times, testing the very concept of humanity. We can rethink Latinoamericano), Buenos Aires. everything. Feminism is a rhizomatic theory and practice that also addresses questions of the post-human and production of the common. A theory of affection and the body, of the public affair, the transformation of social relationships, and of the home as an observatory for the analysis of a new economic policy of life. A feminism that merges with the profound questioning of the contemporary consequences of global capitalism and that emerges to observe notions of community, the breakdown of anthropocentric models and human exceptionalism. We want to rethink, with an attentive eye, latent meanings in artworks made in other contexts. Each object, each photograph, each film in this exhibition generates a magnetic field that creates friction with everything that approaches it. Each one provides material from which to rethink possible forms of the world. With support from the Institut Français of Argentina, the Argentine Embassy in France, the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worships.

15 ÉGLISE SAINTE-ANNE THE NEW BLACK VANGUARD PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN ART AND FASHION Exhibition curator: Antwaun Sargent. Campbell Addy (1993), Arielle Bobb-Willis (1994), Micaiah Carter (1995), Exposition produced by Aperture, New York, Awol Erizku (1988), Nadine Ijewere (1992), Liz Johnson Artur (1964), in collaboration with Quil Lemons (1997), Namsa Leuba (1982), Renell Medrano (1992), the Rencontres d’Arles. Tyler Mitchell (1995), Jamal Nxedlana (1985), Daniel Obasi (1994), Ruth Ossai (1991), Publication: The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Adrienne Raquel (1990), Dana Scruggs, Stephen Tayo (1994) Art and Fashion, Aperture, 2019. Thanks to Airbnb Magazine and The New Black Vanguard presents artists whose vibrant portraits Tasweer Photo Festival, Qatar. and conceptual images fuse the genres of art and fashion photography Arielle Bobb-Willis and Nadine in ways that break down long-established boundaries. Their work has Ijewere are nominated for the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro been widely consumed in traditional lifestyle magazines, ad campaigns, Arles 2021. and museums, as well as on their individual social-media channels, reinfusing the contemporary visual vocabulary around beauty and the body with new vitality and substance. The images open up conversations around the representation of the Black body and Black lives as subject matter; collectively, they celebrate Black creativity and the cross- pollination between art, fashion, and culture in constructing an image. Seeking to challenge the idea that Blackness is homogenous, the works serve as a form of visual activism. It’s a perspective often seen from this loose movement of emerging talents, who are creating photography in vastly different contexts—New York and Johannesburg, Lagos and London. The results—often made in collaboration with Black stylists and fashion designers—present new perspectives on the medium of photography and the notions of race and beauty, gender and power. Additional works by AB+DM (Ahmad Barber and Donté Maurice), Djeneba Aduayom, Lawrence Agyei, Rasharn Agyemang, Araba Ankuma, Bafic, Daveed Baptiste, Malick Bodian, Kennedi Carter, Jorian Charlton, Christian Cody, Faith Couch, Delphine Diallo, Rhea Dillon, Philip-Daniel Ducasse, Christina Ebenezer, Yagazie Emezi, Cary Fagan, Justin French, Alexandre Gaudin, Erica Génécé, Kenny Germé, Denzel Golatt, Yannis Davy Guibinga, Travis Gumbs, Tyrell Hampton, Seye Isikalu, Adama Jalloh, Manny Jefferson, Kreshonna Keane, Ekua King, Joshua Kissi, Casper Kofi, Olivia Lifungula, Myles Loftin, Mahaneela, Ronan Mckenzie, Tyra Mitchell, Fabien Montique, Sierra Nallo, Manuel Obadia-Wills, Travys Owen, Amber Pinkerton, Marc Posso, Caio Rosa, Silvia Rosi, Lucie Rox, Makeda Sandford, Cécile Smetana Baudier, Justin Solomon, Texas Isaiah, David Uzochukwu, Juan Veloz, Isaac West, and Joshua Woods.

With support from Dupon-RC Group.

16 GRACIELA SACCO Untitled, from the Bocanada series, 1993 Rethink Everything, The Power of Art in Times of Isolationexhibition. 17 EMERGENCES FARAH AL QASIMI S and A on the Phone, 2020 Imitation of life exhibition, as part of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2021. 19 ÉGLISE DES FRÈRES-PRÊCHEURS LOUIS ROEDERER DISCOVERY AWARD 2021 Exhibition curator: Sonia Voss. Since its creation, the Rencontres d'Arles has promoted photography and all its stakeholders, from photographers to artists, curators and publishers. With this in mind, the Rencontres d'Arles associates the Louis Roederer Discovery Award with all exhibition spaces: galleries, art centers, non-profits, independent venues and institutions are often the first to support emerging artists. The 11 shortlisted projects will be on display at the next Rencontres d'Arles. During opening week, a jury will bestow the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, which comes with an acquisition worth €15,000, upon an artist and the project’s supporting organization. The public will vote for the Public Award, which carries with it an acquisition worth €5,000. The Louis Roederer Discovery Award aims to be more inclusive by opening its selection process up to all exhibition venues in addition to galleries. This year, 11 shortlisted projects will be featured in a single show curated by Sonia Voss. She and scenographer Amanda Antunes will innovatively and ecologically showcase the emerging scene at one of the festival’s signature sites, the Église des Frères-Prêcheurs. With support from the Louis Roederer Foundation and Polka.

THE 11 PROJECTS EXHIBITED

Farah Al Qasimi is nominated for the Prix de la Photo FARAH AL QASIMI Madame Figaro Arles 2021. THE THIRD LINE, DUBAÏ, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND HELENA ANRATHER, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES Born 1991 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Lives and works in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Brooklyn, United States. IMITATION OF LIFE Humorously and with a bold but subtle use of color, she conducts us into interior spaces typical of the urban upper-middle class in her country of origin, the United Arab Emirates. We see elements of traditional decoration lying alongside utilitarian modern objects, see everyday familiar practices melt seamlessly into the performance of social functions, see the aesthetics unique to the Persian Gulf mingle with those of its colonial heritage. To bring this heterogeneous amalgam of tastes and values to light, the artist plays skillfully with stereotypes. The results—hybrid, rich, at once joyous and troubling, reflect the rapid evolutions undergone by a very young nation. The cultural, political and religious topos involving the visibility of women—and more generally representation of the body—forms the central concern of these photographs. Through their suggestive character and sophisticated framing, they work around the taboo of figurative representation by drawing our attention to eroticized objects. At the same time, the images move into the foreground the life and social interactions of women viewed within the spaces they inhabit

20 KETUTA ALEXI-MESKHISHVILI GALERIE FRANK ELBAZ, PARIS, FRANCE Born 1979 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. GEORGIAN ORNAMENT Familiar and impersonal at the same time, the plastic bag is at the center of Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili’s most recent work. The artist, fascinated by an object both fragile and enduringly pollutive, has for several years collected specimens of what she calls a « future fossil ». In the country of Georgia, where she was born, a number of these bags intended for tourist consumption display traditional ornamental motifs, similar to those you find in Byzantine churches. The curtain presented here is characteristic of the artist’s method: derived from a 4 x 5-inch negative to which she has apposed a plastic bag illuminated by a finger light—a clubbing accessory—the curtain has been adapted to the nature and dimensions of the exhibition site. The translucent textile material and its falling drape recall the artist’s interest in the play of transparency and light as well as in the motif of the window that appears in many of her works, while the black edges recall the analogy between the rectangle of the photograph and the window that opens onto the world. MARIANA HAHN DISPLAY, BERLIN, GERMANY Born 1985 in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. Lives and works in Paris, France. EROS AND THANATOS MADE A CHILD Eros and Thanatos Made a Child is a mixed installation reflecting the diversity of techniques employed by the artist: photography, film, sculpture, and various materials and objects subjected to processes of transformation, as through fossilization, decay, or corrosion. Taking a casting made at the archaeological site of Pompeii as her point of departure, the work is like a homage to photography—an art whose origins might be said to be in the first tracings of the human figure. It is like seeing a snapshot of the body that was buried here beneath lava 2,000 years ago. The salt and copper visible in the installation likewise refer to a material history of the photographic medium, while the animated images—obtained with the aid of a Super 8 camera with its lens removed—have the grainy appearance of the earliest heliographic experiments, where the human figure appears as little more than a phantom.

Publication: Wadi Qelt. Dans la clarté des pierres, Eyd, 2021. ILANIT ILLOUZ MABA | FONDATION DES ARTISTES, NOGENT-SUR-MARNE, FRANCE Born 1977 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris, France. WADI QELT, IN THE STONY LIGHT Wadi Qelt, in the Stony Light is based on extensive research into the natural elements and proposes an experimental photographic study of Wadi Qelt, a valley situated in the Judaean Desert between Jerusalem and Jericho, near the Dead Sea. The dramatic desiccation of the lake has transformed the region into a lunar zone, corroded by salt. The artist collects this salt from the desert floor and then, in her studio, uses it to fossilize her prints, lending them a sculptural quality. Both image and structural component at once, the salt solidifies the work and makes it scintillate, revealing the organic properties of the mineral, but also its hieratic beauty, evoking a landscape for contemplation but also a threatened ecosystem.

21 JONAS KAMM FOLKWANG UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, ESSEN, GERMANY Born 1990 in Bad Reichenhall, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. THE INHABITANTS The series The Inhabitants is the result of a hybrid production process, at the cross-roads of architecture, sculpture and photography. These images – two-dimensional renderings drawn from 3D virtual space— initially take shape in a space modeled by the artist with the aid of computer software. Kamm then, using virtual tools, sculpts figures based on a texture that he has previously “harvested” with the camera from his physical environment. Once the figures have been shaped, the software—simulating the tools of photography—permits the artist to choose an angle and to adjust, from a practically unlimited spectrum of possibilities, his light sources, his focus, his aperture, etc. Kamm’s figures, vaguely anthropomorphic, appear as intermediaries between the real and immaterial worlds. The reductive character, the unclassifiable nature of these images turns them into vectors of inchoate narratives, carriers of a potential meaning which has yet to be defined and which remains mysterious, opening a void that we are invited to fill.

Tarrah Krajnak is nominated for the Prix de la Photo TARRAH KRAJNAK Madame Figaro Arles 2021. AS-IS.LA GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES Born 1979 in Lima, Peru. Lives and works in Los Angeles, United States. MASTER RITUALS II: WESTON’S NUDES Tarrah Krajnak’s work makes clear reference to the history of photography, on the one hand, and to the artist’s identity as a Latin‑American woman, on the other. A sequel to her first critical homage to Ansel Adams, this series is consecrated to another North American “master”, Edward Weston. Krajnak here re-enacts the famous Nudes. She takes the place of models Bertha Wardell and Charis Wilson, reproducing their poses—but also depicts herself as author of the photographs, a remote shutter release in hand. Restoring to the picture what Weston left outside the frame or emphasizing Weston’s framing choices—what he excluded—using simple wooden panels, Krajnak replays a significant chapter in the history of photography while re-focusing on the role of the female model. Through this performative and photographic act, Krajnak affirms her Latin-American identity and her body of color. She creates through her presence and the gesture of image reconstruction a dialogue with her predecessor, Weston, as well as with her contemporary viewers.

Upcoming publication: Sub Sole, Chose Commune, 2021. MASSAO MASCARO FONDATION A STICHTING, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM Born 1990 in Lille, France. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. SUB SOLE Sub Sole (in Latin, beneath the sun), an ensemble of photographs made between 2017 and 2020, in the region of the Mediterranean Sea, follows the mythological itinerary of the voyage of Ulysses: Ceuta, Naples, Athens, Palermo, Istanbul, Tunis and Lampedusa. Crossroads of cultures, cradle of foundation myths, the Mediterranean is, today more than ever, marked by migrations, exile and displacement. Over the course of seven voyages and numerous chance encounters, Mascaro goes in search of the young people who inhabit and traverse this region. The literary narratives which the artist drew upon for his work are like the invisible companions of these photographs. They imbue the contemporary images with an ancient substance. Beneath the sun, political, economic, existential, and poetic implications intersect, beneath the harsh, hot Mediterranean light whose rhythm shapes human life. 22 Publication: At No Point in Between, Dais Books, 2019. ZORA J MURFF WEBBER GALLERY, LONDON, UK / NEW YORK, UNITED STATES Born 1987 in Des Moines, United States. Lives and works in Fayetteville, United States. AT NO POINT IN BETWEEN At No Point in Between takes as its subject the African-American neighborhood of North Omaha, Nebraska. Showing portraits of the neighborhood’s inhabitants alongside urban landscapes, the series evokes a social environment profoundly determined by a succession of racist policies and by the injustice that has reigned there since its inception. Combining humanist and topographical research on the one hand and archival analysis on the other, Murff focusses on the complex tangle of violence impacting the city’s black community: that of odious crimes, such as the lynching of Will Brown (1919), the assassination of Vivian Strong (1969) or the recent police violence documented on videos that have circulated widely through the social media; but also the systemic violence of governmental decisions that have affected the community slyly and no less calamitously, resulting in social and economic exclusion, such as the redlining of the neighborhood by urban planners. The bodies and the places we see here all bear the stigmata of racism, which remains today a dominant aspect of the Black experience in the United States. AYKAN SAFOĞLU THE PILL, ISTANBUL, TURKEY Born 1984 in Istanbul, Turkey. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Vienna, Austria. DOG STAR DESCENDING It all starts with a tree that falls beneath the artist’s window one night. This event, and a vivid memory of summer vacations spent with his parents on the island of Imbros, lead the artist to tell us the story of his own experience of up-rooting. Turkish, educated at the German High School of Istanbul, as a young student Safoğlu goes into exile in Berlin. Safoğlu’s education at the German High School, which his parents hoped would prepare him for a better life, only makes him feel torn between two cultures—two countries. This intimate tale of reconciliation with his family and with himself is based on Safoğlu’s personal archive of photographs—a favorite material the artist, whose work frequently involves the manipulation of existing images, the palimpsest, a process of association with storytelling, and the voice. Here, the photographs seem to have been fed through a shredder and then loosely pieced together again. They roll by the viewer as if on a conveyor belt, evoking a road to be traveled in rhythm to the steps of the artist, which thus accompany the unfurling of the narrative.

23 Publication: Der Apparat, Spector Books, 2019. ANDRZEJ STEINBACH BERLINISCHE GALERIE - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART BERLIN, GERMANY Born 1983 in Czarnków, Poland. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. THE APPARATUS The third series in a suite of portraits addressing the representation, and our perception, of the photographic model, The Apparatus foregrounds the figure of a photographer in action. The model’s neutral sexuality assimilates them to the camera, of which they act as an extension. The title refers not only to the mechanical apparatus but also to the human body that operates it and sets it in motion. The gaze and the body are entwined. Reproducing a situation of casting or scientific observation, Steinbach has the model simulate various photographic strategies, gestures, and attitudes. He creates variations using a limited array of accessories, while leaving the action or object at which the camera is pointed systematically outside the frame. Is it a war, a demonstration? While the pictures refer to well-codified usages in photography and, by implication, to precise genres, they also remind us of the process of image production, which is generally effaced by the image itself. MARIE TOMANOVA PRAGOVKA GALLERY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC Born 1984 in Valtice, Czech Republic. Lives and works in New York, United States. IT WAS ONCE MY UNIVERSE It Was Once My Universe is the autobiographical story of a homecoming. Returning from New York to her native Mikulov, a Czech village in South Moravia, and to her family’s farm after a decade of absence, Tomanova documents her reunion with loved ones. And yet a disquieting strangeness dominates the atmosphere. The house she missed so much—reminisced about, fantasized, took imaginary refuge in during the most difficult moments of exile—has become an unfamiliar frame, disjointed, in which she no longer has a place. She experiences all the more forcefully the feelings of disorientation and loss of identity, closely tied to her uprooting, because they now inform the “homecoming” she has so long looked forward to. This series extends the artist’s exploration of the genre of the self-portrait. The camera’s date stamp reminds us of time, the moment when the photograph was taken, which, given so precisely here, contrasts sharply with the murky time of memory. With support from the Czech Center, Paris, Fotonova, and the town of Mikulov.

24 ABBAYE DE WINNER OF THE JIMEI X ARLES DISCOVERY AWARD MONTMAJOUR SIM CHI YIN

Exhibition curator: Sam I-Shan. Born 1978 in Singapore. Lives and works in Singapore and Berlin, Germany. Prints, mounting and framing by Atelier SHL, Arles. ONE DAY WE’LL UNDERSTAND Sim Chi Yin’s project contests historiographies of the so-called Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), where jungles, plantations and villages became battlegrounds for anti-colonial fighters, and British and Commonwealth troops. For Interventions, shown for the first time, Sim combed the British Imperial War Museum’s archive, photographing prints and negatives to merge verso and recto into one plane. Sim introduces further perspectives of the anti-colonial left with two other series: Remnants features landscapes from the conflict in present-day Malaysia and Thailand that still retain traces of war. Requiem is a video installation where former deportees and exiles living across China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia reclaim memories of their political participation in their own voice, performing revolutionary songs. Sim’s assemblage of suppressed histories, personal narratives, private collections and altered sites form a counter-archive to colonial and postcolonial states’ account of the war. With support from National Arts Council, Singapore.

CLOÎTRE WINNER OF THE BMW RESIDENCY SAINT-TROPHIME ALMUDENA ROMERO

Exhibition curator: Born 1986 in Madrid, Spain. Lives and works in London, United Kingdom. François Cheval. Exhibition produced by BMW Art THE PIGMENT CHANGE & Culture, with support from GOBELINS, School of Visual Arts Over the last few years, we've observed a growing interest in the and BenQ France. materiality of photography. With her project The Pigment Change, Publication: The Pigment Change, co-publication BMW Almudena Romero, winner of 2020's BMW Residency, uses ecological Art et Culture/De l’air, des livres, consciousness and organic matter to reflect an aesthetics of fragility, 2021. if not disappearance. In four parts: Faire une photo, Family Album, Offspring and The Act of Producing, the project ascribes a new 'artistic' use to the present, advocating for sustainability. The Pigment Change uses qualities intrinsic to plants, in particular those related to their exposure to light and particular wavelengths. The experiments result in image-objects, photographic moments exploring an expansive sense of the medium. In this, the use of plants as material challenges the notion of progress: the product of the knowledge accumulated by the flow of images.

25 JARDIN DES VOYAGEURS LEBOGANG TLHAKO Born 1988 in Katlehong, South Africa. Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Exhibition curator: Fulufhelo Mobadi, winner of the SIBADALA SIBANCANE Rencontres d’Arles and Institut For the Rencontres d’Arles and Institut français Curatorial Research français Curatorial Research Grant – Africa Projects. Grant – Africa Projects, I planned to investigate Southern and Eastern Prints and mounting by Atelier African ideas around contemporary African photography in relation SHL, Arles. to documentary photography and what that meant for African female photographers. Lebogang Tlhako’s series Sibadala Sibancane— which means, “we are old, we are young” — is an intimate portrayal of these themes but what is even more striking about her work is her process of making. Sibadala Sibancane, all shot on 35mm film, is a collection of photographs which speak about her relationship with her mother and how it has influenced and shaped her growth into a young woman. Her work is a reminder of a culture of keeping photo albums which was made popular as part of middle-class femininity. Tlhako brings back the nostalgia in album making by creating collages that layer images from her mother’s photo albums with cut outs of portraits of young children and landscapes from her community and environment. Fulufhelo Mobadi Exhibition presented as part of the Africa2020 Season, with support from its Patrons Committee.

For the second year in a row, the Rencontres d'Arles is offering a Curatorial Research Grant – Africa Projects, in partnership with the Institut Français, in the amount of €20,000, open to citizens of an African country who are based in Africa most of the time. The first edition was awarded to Fulufhelo Mobabi for the project She Bad Bad by Lebogang Tlhako. The second edition was awarded to Untitled Duo (Soukaina Aboulaoula & Yvon Langué, Morocco and Cameroon) for the project If A Tree Falls in a Forest. This year, a special mention is also given to Through the Lens Collective (Michelle Harris & Michelle Loukidis, South Africa) for their project Postcard Africa.

26 ÉCOLE NATIONALE ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE SUPÉRIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE ANYSSIA BIDOUT, EMMA RIVIERA & CÉDRINE SCHEIDIG Exhibition coproduced by the Anyssia Bidout, born 1995 in Limoges, France. Lives and works in Arles, France. ENSP and the Rencontres d’Arles Emma Riviera, born 1995 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris and Arles. Cédrine Scheidig, born 1994 in Bobigny, France. Lives and works in Paris. SPECIAL ATTENTION Each of the three works by École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles (ENSP) graduates meriting Special Attention at the Rencontres d’Arles this year, according to the jury, evokes “the communal” as it’s shared in time, space or through an activity. Anyssia Bidout’s work revolves around the motor vehicle: its construction, repair and aesthetics. The series Filmogenic seeks to empty the car of its social, political and cultural meanings. Emma Riviera’s series Fos Ideas, analyzes the complexities of the city Fos-sur-Mer. She goes out to meet the people of Fos in their everyday lives, punctuated by public festivals, leisure time at the beach, and at roundabouts, the symbol of the Gilets Jaunes movement. Cédrine Scheidig’s A Life In-Between is a photographic project exploring the “third island”, or the Caribbean populations that live on the outskirts of Paris.

27 ANDRZEJ STEINBACH From The Apparatus series, 2019. Courtesy of Conradi Gallery, Hamburg. The Apparatusexhibition, as part of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2021. 28 ATLAS PIETER HUGO, Shaun Oliver, Cape Town, 2011, from the Kin series. Courtesy of the artist. Being present exhibition. 30 ÉGLISE DES TRINITAIRES THAWRA! RÉVOLUTION ! SUDAN, THE HISTORY OF AN UPRISING Exhibition curators: Ahmed Ano (1993), Suha Barakat (1986), Saad Eltinay (1995), Eythar Gubara (1988), Juliette Agnel and Duha Mohammed. Metche Jaafar (1998), Hind Meddeb (1978), Duha Mohammed (1993), Texts: Hind Meddeb. Ula Osman (1998), Muhammad Salah (1993) Prints by Janvier, Paris. Mounting by Deuxième Œil, Paris. After thirty years of military dictatorship, theocracy, and years of civil Framing by Circad, Paris. war, on April 11, 2019, the people of Sudan brought down Omar al-Bashir, Eythar Gubara, Metche Jaafar and Duha Mohammed are the man who imposed an unchallenged reign upon them, starting with nominated for the Prix de la his coup d’État in 1989. Sudan's popular uprising began in December Photo Madame Figaro Arles 2021. 2018. For five months, risking arrest and torture by the regime's police, the Sudanese people took to the streets by the thousands. Driven by the will to document resistance and repression, a new generation of photographers emerged. These artists, between the ages of 19 and 30, broadcast their photos through social networks. They are both actors and observers of this historical moment. The show exhibits the work of eight photographers from this rising scene and that of filmmaker Hind Meddeb who documented the steps of this fragile transitional period alongside a youth prepared to challenge military and religious forces. Exhibition presented as part of the Africa2020 season, with support from its Patrons Committee. With support from the regional Institut français of Sudan, Hahnemühle FineArt, and VII Academy.

PALAIS DE L’ARCHEVÊCHÉ PIETER HUGO Born 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Exhibition curator: Federica Angelucci. Prints by Magnum Opus, BEING PRESENT Cape Town. Mounting and framing by Anton, Being Present brings together more than 100 head and shoulders portraits Cape Town. realized by Pieter Hugo since the early 2000s, offering an expansive overview of the artist’s engagement with this particular tradition of portraiture. The selected photographs dabble with the lexicons of forensics, surveillance and typologies while keeping a strong humanism at their core. In Hugo’s words: “My work is about the notion of being an outsider: I feel I inhabit this space myself and I embrace this awareness as a way to engage with the people I photograph. I almost always work by announcing myself at the outset; I look, and I am equally looked at. When making a portrait there is a brief moment in which cynicism disappears. There is beauty in being held in the gaze of another.” There is an intimacy that emerges from being openly present, and what features prominently in these images is a moment of stillness and connection separate from everything that happened before or after. Exhibition presented as part of the Africa2020 Season. With support from the Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.

31 NEW VENUE JARDIN D'ÉTÉ STÉPHAN GLADIEU Born 1969 in Bagneux, France. Lives and works in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

Publication : North Korea, Actes Sud, 2020. DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, PORTRAITS Prints by Initial Labo, Paris. North Korea has always been an enigma to me. Why has it never wobbled while other authoritarian regimes collapsed in the upheavals brought about by the fall of the Berlin Wall, modernity and social media? It has outlasted the communist bloc that guaranteed its political and economic stability; withstood international embargos aiming to strangle it; overcame successive economic, climate or food crises; and never experienced a massive uprising despite constant surveillance and repression. North Korean officials were baffled by my proposal to do individual portraits. My "revolutionary" approach ran against the grain of their collectivist culture. Why did they agree? A desire for openness, no doubt, but also, I think, because the idea of frontal poses, and rigorous framing, was familiar and understandable to them. Deliberately flirting with the conventions of the propaganda image, this device made me static, predictable and controllable. Stéphan Gladieu With support from the School Gallery, Paris.

CLOÎTRE SAINT-TROPHIME ANTON KUSTERS Born 1974 in Hasselt, Belgium. Lives and works in Belgium and in Tokyo, Japan.

Exhibition curator: Monica Allende. BLUE SKIES Publication: 1078 Blue Blue Skies sets out to explore the visualisation of trauma and how its Skies/4432 Days, Kehrer, 2021. Sound artist: Ruben Samama. fading memory can be recorded. Kusters travelled 177,828 km to every Prints by Imprenta, Antwerp corner of the former Third Reich over a period of six years to capture Framing by Wood4Art, Mechelen. the blue sky above every known location of the 1,078 official Nazi Germany SS Concentration camps. Most of these sites remain unmarked to this day. To locate every site and make sure that the sky above would be blue, he relied on a combination of GPS and live satellite infrared cloud cover footage, manually blind-stamping the coordinates and estimated number of victims into every image made. The images gathered by the artist will eventually fade into emptiness. Their numbers will always remain. Attempting to exhaustively witness often fails to lead to understanding. In dialogue with the audio and visual piece by Ruben Samama, the work opens up a space for reflection between the fractures of evidential specificity and the abstracted trace of the blue skies above.

32 JARDIN DES VOYAGEURS CHOW AND LIN Stefen Chow, born 1980 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Huiyi Lin, born 1980 in Singapore. Live and work in Beijing, China. Winners of the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2019. Publication: Le Seuil de pauvreté, THE POVERTY LINE Actes Sud, 2020. The Poverty Line uses the universal lens of food to examine the daily The publication of this book was made possible by the Luma choices we would face living at the poverty line. Over the last ten years, Foundation, the Rencontres artists travelled 200,000 kilometers to create case studies of 36 countries d'Arles with the collaboration of Éditions Actes Sud. And and territories spanning six continents. Each photograph beckons the support of Lars Müller scrutiny while inviting the observer to try to make sense of the whole. Publishers and the Ayam brand. Prints by Initial Labo, Paris. Individual portraits of food items bathed in dramatic light imbue a few bananas, scattered rice grains or a leg of chicken with existential meaning. The Poverty Line is a growing conversation that investigates our understanding of poverty and inequality. Covering various cultures and economic systems, it confronts the viewer with objective, non-emotional observations of our own circumstances framed against the fragile balance of social structures, growth and divide in an entangled globalized world. With support from National Arts Council, Singapore.

JARDIN DES VOYAGEURS AFRICA STATE OF MIND Emmanuelle Andrianjafy (1983), Girma Berta (1990), Guillaume Bonn (1970), Andrew Esebio (1978), Hicham Gardaf (1989) Exhibition curator: Ekow Eshun. Publication: Africa 21e siècle, photographie contemporaine HYBRID CITIES africaine, Textuel, 2020 (French version), Africa State of Mind, Hybrid Cities considers photography centered on the African metropolis Thames & Hudson, 2020 (English as a site of rapid social transformation. Of the largest cities in Africa, version). three—Lagos, Cairo and Kinshasa—can be classed as “megacities”, conurbations with a population of over 10 million. That number is set to double by 2030. Amid such rapid urbanization, characterized by ceaseless flows of people, goods and capital, a state of permanent change reigns. The works in Hybrid Cities document the African city engaged at a point of unprecedented acceleration, revealing both the tensions and possibilities of that condition. The apparent chaos of crowded streets resolves itself into unexpected forms of pattern and color. Against a backdrop of uncertain infrastructure and sometimes poor social provision, men and women organize their lives and labor on their own terms, establishing affinities that flourish and thrive even under duress.

ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DE ENRIQUE RAMÍREZ LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Born 1979 in Santiago, Chile. Lives and works in Paris, France, and Santiago. MIGRANT GARDENS Exhibition curators: Charlotte Arthaud, Estelle In 2020, the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP) hosted Blenet, Mariano Bocanegra, Léonard Contramestre, Enrique Ramírez as resident artist. Ramírez’ installations blur the lines Jingyu Cao, Elena Corradi, between video, photography, text, music, and objects. In his work, the sea Marta Gili, Franck Hirsch, Thomas Pendeliau, is the ultimate site of instability: it is a domain of memory in perpetual Juliette Vignon. motion, a space onto which narratives are projected, and within which Exhibition produced by ENSP. Publication to be released, the fate of Chile and grand historical accounts of travel, conquest and co‑publication Galerie migratory flows intersect. This exhibition presents a selection of works, de l'UQAM and ENSP. supplemented by a new eponymous work co-produced with seven students from the school, in a poetic rewriting of the epistolary exchange between the students and around a hundred residents of Arles during France’s second lockdown. Based on these written words and the images they evoke, the work is a visual and narrative reconstruction, both poetic and political, of the imaginative spaces where memory, desire and experience dwell.

33 MUHAMMAD SALAH. A protester wearing a shirt saying, "A revolutionary from Kalakla, one fall, that's it" stands on Khartoum’s main railway line, which was part of the sit-in zone at army headquarters. Khartoum, April 13, 2019. Thawra! Revolution ! Soudan, History of an Uprising exhibition. 34 REREADING SABINE WEISS, Félix Labisse, painter and decorator, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1952. A Photographer’s Life exhibition. 36 MONOPRIX CHARLOTTE PERRIAND Born 1903 in Paris, France. Died 1999 in Paris. Exhibition curator: Damarice Amao, with the complicity of Sébastien Gokalp HOW DO WE WANT TO LIVE? POLITICS OF PHOTOMONTAGE and the Charlotte Perriand Archives. Charlotte Perriand devoted her life to improving the living conditions Publication: Charlotte Perriand, of as many people as possible, creating an "art of inhabiting" in connection Politique du photomontage. Comment voulons-nous with nature. She used photography not only as a tool for observing reality, vivre ?, under the supervision but also to promote her conception of a new world. Echoing our current of Damarice Amao and Emmanuelle Kouchner, concerns, in the 1930s she used sweeping photomontages to denounce Actes Sud, 2021. unhealthy urban conditions and present her vision of how life can be made Wallpapers by Processus, Paris. Framing by Circad, Paris. better. Her striking photographic frescoes, including "The Great Misery of Paris" (1936) and the Agriculture Ministry’s waiting room and pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne [International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life] (both 1937), created with Fernand Léger, attest to her modernity. The exhibition offers insights into her idea of the world through her working methods and incredible collection of photographs—period prints, negatives, magazine clippings and personal photographs—on display for the first time, set against recreations of her monumental photomontages.

NEW VENUE CHAPELLE DU SABINE WEISS MUSEON ARLATEN Born 1924 in Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland. Lives and works in Paris, France. – MUSÉE DE PROVENCE A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE For several years, Sabine Weiss has been recognized and honored as Exhibition curator: the last representative of the French humanist school. Yet few people Virginie Chardin. are aware of the richness and diversity of her work, preserved intact Publication: Sabine Weiss, Actes Sud, 2021. Introduction text in the house-studio where she has lived since 1949, and whose treasures by Virginie Chardin. Silver prints by Atelier Publimod she is only beginning to reveal. Describing herself as a photographer- and La Chambre Noire, Paris. artisan and a witness rather than an artist, the 96-year-old has built Documents and facsimiles by Processus, Paris. a true photographic monument in a free and independent spirit. Framing by Circad, Paris. This unprecedented retrospective in the Museon Arlaten’s recently Sabine Weiss received the restored chapel highlights the main features of her oeuvre, constantly Women In Motion Award for photography 2020, awarded in sympathy with human beings, as well as various facets of the by Kering and the Rencontres photographer’s profession, from reportage to illustration, fashion, d'Arles for her entire career. advertising, portraits and personal work. Sabine Weiss has approached every area of photography as a challenge, a pretext for encounters and travels, a way of life and a means of self-expression. The exhibition reflects this life-long passion with a new selection of images, films and personal documents. With support from the Swiss Confederation and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

37 CROISIÈRE JAZZ POWER!

Exhibition curators: Clara Bastid JAZZ MAGAZINE: TWENTY YEARS and Marie Robert, winners IN THE AVANT-GARDE (1954–1974) of the Rencontres d’Arles Curatorial Research Fellowship, At the time of racial segregation in the United States, which lasted until assisted by Jade Jollivet. 1964, and the difficult decolonization process undertaken by France, Publication: Jazz Power, l’aventure Jazz Magazine, French periodicals seldom put African-Americans on their covers. 1954‑1974. Texts by But in December 1954, Jazz Magazine set a new tone. From the outset, Clara Bastid, Marie Robert and Bernard Loupias, the young team at the monthly magazine founded by Nicole and delpire & co, 2021. Eddie Barclay advocated musical borrowing and cultural exchange. It bore Wallpapers by Picto, Paris. Framing by Circad, Paris. ardent witness to the US civil rights movement as well as discrimination In collaboration with against African-Americans on both sides of the Atlantic. The magazine Jazz Magazine. quickly became a laboratory of experimentation, taking opinionated stands under its editors, Frank Ténot and Daniel Filipacchi—fiery, ambitious friends fascinated by jazz and Afro-American counterculture. Surrounded by enthusiasts, they played an active part in building "legends" in France. For two decades, they legitimized jazz as a form of culture, consecrating the music and revealing its eminently political dimension. Clara Bastid & Marie Robert The Rencontres d’Arles Curatorial Research Fellowship is generously supported by Jean-François Dubos.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Rencontres d’Arles is offering a 20,000-euro curatorial research fellowship open to all curators. The 2019 winners are Justinien Tribillon & Offshore Studio (Isabel Seiffert & Christoph Miler), for the project Infrastructure, Visible Upon Breakdown and Clara Bastid & Marie Robert for Jazz Power! Jazz Magazine Twenty years in the avant-garde (1954–1974). The 2020 winners, whose research projects are supported by the Rencontres d'Arles for two years, are: Monica Allende, Adam Broomberg and Shoair Mavlian for the project Alternative Protest; Damarice Amao for the project Ghana in Portraits: Documenting Independence; Jean-Christophe Arcos for the project Geology by the Image; Nestan Nijaradze for the project Georgia: Unveiled Image. The winner of the Rencontres d'Arles 2021 curatorial research fellowship is Matthieu Orléan for the project The role of the scrapbook in the practice of experimental cinema.

38 ESPACE VAN GOGH ORIENT-EXPRESS & Co

Exhibition curators: Éva Gravayat BETWEEN HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY and Arthur Mettetal. Many tales, fabricated or based on facts, have been told about the Exhibition coproduced by the Endowment Fund Orient Express Orient‑Express, a technological achievement that became a cultural icon. and the Rencontres d’Arles. Publication: Orient-Express & Co, Some have become legends, drowning historical reality in imaginative archives photographiques d’un stories. It all started with the International Sleeping-Car Company, train mythique, éditions Textuel, 2020. which ran the Orient-Express, the world’s first international luxury Wallpapers by Picto, Paris train, between Paris and Constantinople, later Istanbul, from 1883 Framing by Circad, Paris. to 1977. Its creation was a veritable diplomatic and economic feat at a time when empires and states used railways as an instrument of political power. The photographs in the Orient-Express & Co exhibition come from the archives of the former International Sleeping-Car Company. Pictures, plans, maps, technical drawings and advertising brochures saved by former employees during the company’s various reorganizations put the Orient-Express into its historical context. Most are anonymous, others the work of famous studios such as Paul Nadar, Albert Chevojon and Sebah & Joailler. With support from SNCF Gares & Connexions.

39 GIUSEPPE PINO, Roy Ayers, Montreux (Switzerland), ca. 1969. Jazz Magazine archives. Jazz Power! Jazz Magazine: Twenty years in the avant-garde (1954-1974) exhibition. 40 TRIBUTE RAYMOND CAUCHETIER. Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard, 1959. New Wave exhibition. 42 ABBAYE DE MONTMAJOUR RAYMOND CAUCHETIER Born 1920 in Paris, France. Died in 2021 in Paris.

Exhibition curator: Sam Stourdzé. NEW WAVE Prints and wallpapers by Dupon, Of Raymond Cauchetier’s work, most familiar are his photographs Paris. Framing by Circad, Paris. of French New Wave icons: Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo Thanks to Boogie Woogie wandering down the Champs-Élysées in Breathless, Jeanne Moreau’s Photography. ascending smile (later the film’s poster) and the race across the Passerelle de Valmy in Jules and Jim, and portraits of Anouk Aimée dressed as Lola… More than just set photographer for Godard, Truffaut, Demy, Rozier and Chabrol, Cauchetier embodied New Wave insolence by re-thinking the frame of set photography. He walked into the frame, had scenes replayed, and documented all that preceded or surrounded a take. We’re on set with him alongside Godard, pushing a cart bearing a hunched-up cameraman for a tricky tracking shot. We’re with the tech crew on Adieu Philippine, piled into the Citroën 2CV With legendary shots and new discoveries, this show is a journey through the images of cinema taken by Cauchetier, who passed away this year, taken on the sets of New Wave films.

43 ARLES BOOKS Cover of the review NEUF n°5, dedicated to Brassaï, December 1951. Photograph by Brassaï. Courtesy of delpire & co. 45 ESPACE VAN GOGH NEUF FROM A TO Z

Exhibition curators: DELPIRE BEFORE DELPIRE Julien Frydman 1950: Robert Delpire was 24 years old. As a medical student, he started and Stuart Alexander. Scientific advisor: the review NEUF. It was the beginning of a singular venture in publishing Michel Frizot. Scenography: Anna Toussaint. that lasted three years and nine issues. Articles penned by Guillaume Publication : NEUF, Apollinaire, André Breton, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Henry Miller delpire & co, 2021. Reproduction, modern prints and and Jean-Paul Sartre mixed with illustrations by Savignac, André wallpapers by Atelier SHL, Arles. François and Raoul Dufy, and photography by Brassaï, Doisneau, Cartier‑Bresson, Robert Frank, Izis… In less than two years, the illustrated review, targeting doctors interested in art and the “image,” started publishing books by photographers and artists, and gave birth to Delpire publishing. The exhibition selects 26 words and as many stories to recount the foundations of photography publishing and the unprecedented creative momentum that stimulated the postwar period. Using a visual and typographical approach, with emblematic double-page spreads from the review, original copies and other material from the times, the exhibition recreates NEUF in letter and spirit, and tells the story of the early days of Robert Delpire in the field of publishing.

ESPACE VAN GOGH THE 2021 BOOK AWARDS The Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards were created in order to support the swift growth in the publishing of photography books and to help them reach a broader public. There are now three categories of books: Authors’ Books award, Historical Books award and Photo-text Books award. The Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature backs and encourages the Photo-Text Award, which celebrates the relationship between words and images. Each award comes with a €6,000 prize and singles out the best photography books published between June 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021. A pre-jury and a jury of photography experts will choose the shortlisted works and the Book Award winners. Each book submitted is deposited in the library of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles. The shortlist is presented to the public in a dedicated place throughout the festival and the Book Award winners are announced during opening week. Main partner: Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature. With support from Fnac for the Author Book Award.

ESPACE VAN GOGH LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD 2021 Since 2015, the Rencontres d’Arles offers an award supporting the publication of a dummy book. This 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 recipients of the 2020 edition of the award were Yto Barrada and Bettina for Bettina. In 2019, Chow and Lin were awarded for their project The Poverty Line which is exhibited this year as part of the festival (see p. 32). In 2018, it was Marina Gadonneix who received the award for Phénomènes, and a special mention was given to the dummy book by Indré Urbonaité (State of Shame). In 2017, Olga Kravets, Maria Morina, Oksana Yushko and Anna Shpakova received the award for Grozny: Nine Cities. In 2020, 194 publications from 34 countries were received. The 2021 winner will be announced during the opening week. With support from the Luma Foundation.

46 ARLES 2021 LES RENCONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE THE SATELLITES ASSOCIATED ARLES JEAN-LUC BERTINI, Amish, Lincolville, Maine, 2008. American solitudes exhibition. 49 CHAPELLE In its fourth year at the Rencontres d’Arles, Lët’z Arles presents two DE LA CHARITÉ monographic exhibitions selected by an international jury: Daniel Reuter’s Providencia and Lisa Kohl’s Erre. Exhibition curators: Michèle Walerich and Danielle Igniti. Exhibition produced by Lët’z Arles asbl (Luxembourg). LËT’Z ARLES Publications: Providencia, text Alejandro Zambra, DANIEL REUTER co-publication Skinnerboox, CNA (National Audiovisual Center) Born 1976 in Trier, Germany. Lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland, and Luxembourg. and Lët'z Arles, 2020. Erre, collective work, PROVIDENCIA co-publication CNA (National Audiovisual Center) and Lët'z Providencia—providence—in its biblical meaning, describes God’s Arles, 2020. intervention in the universe, an influence beyond human control. The Providencia neighborhood of Santiago de Chile provides both setting and title for this new series by Daniel Reuter. Architectural details, glass reflections, makeshift structures, and barricades obstruct the view. In the aftermath of civil protests, we encounter protagonists confined within the complexity of their existence. Beneath a surface layer of the quotidian, we sense the last big wave of western aspirations crashing down, conjuring the dreams and disenchantment of a world in upheaval.

LËT’Z ARLES LISA KOHL Born 1988 in Luxembourg. Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany, and Luxembourg. ERRE Lisa Kohl is interested in the relationship between artistic creation and social reality. She goes out into the field to meet people living in precarious conditions, establishing two‑way relationships of trust with them that allow her to work. Her works speak of escape, exile, the non‑place of life or survival, invisibility and absence. Kohl boldly succeeds in closing the gap between reality and poetry. Her subject matter is social. It is about protesting against a cold, hostile state and, at the same time, it allows us, through the poetic aesthetics of images, to dream of a world where everything could be different

LES AILLEURS COUVENT SAINT-CÉSAIRE Les Ailleurs is an evolution of the VR Arles Festival co-founded within The Rencontres d'Arles. Exhibition curators: Benoît Baume, Fabien Siouffi INCARNATIONS and Victoire Thevenin. Exhibition produced by Fisheye. WHEN PHOTOGRAPHY TAKES SHAPE With the emergence of new technologies such as photogrammetry and LiDAR, a photographic image becomes a volume, a space, an experience. The Incarnation exhibition shows these new image-worlds, by presenting the work of a generation of artists who, with photographic tools, design virtual ecologies, avatars-portraits, hybrid bodies, embodied stories. A journey of experiences in the form of immersive, playful and accessible installations to which the entire public of the Rencontres d’Arles is invited. The festival also organizes workshops for kids as well as the fourth edition of the Virtual Reality Writing Residency welcoming artists and experts in Arles from August 21 to 28. With support from Tik Tok, the Institut Français, the Region SUD – Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, GRETA-CAF Provence, and Le Point.

50 FONDATION MANUEL FONDATION MANUEL RIVERA-ORTIZ RIVERA-ORTIZ SYSTEM ECHOES

Exhibition curators: Mathias Benguigui (1991), Jean-Christian Bourcart (1960), Jérôme Cortie (1992), Marc Barbey, Florent Basiletti, Hoël Duret (1988), Alberto Giuliani (1975), Agathe Kalfas (1989), Elsa Leydier (1988), Anne-Marie Beckmann, Philip Montgomery (1988), Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (1968), Niina Vatanen (1977), Christel Boget, Lionel Charrier, Klaus Kehrer, Luce Lebart, Anno Wilms (1935-2016), Barbara Wolff (1951), Collection Chaussee 36, LesAssociés, Mathilde Leroy, Timothy Prus, Parisberlin>Fotogroup Chiara Ruberti, Enrico Stefanelli. Program created by the System Echoes is an exhibition program focusing on the uncertain, Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz and Fotohaus. changing living world. The artists’ various approaches immerse us in current issues involving migration (Les Chants de l’Asphodèle, Mathias Benguigui and Agathe Kalfas), memory (Sauvegarde retrouvée 2.0, Jérôme Cortie; Cuba, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz), feminism (Les Marques, Elsa Leydier). Virtual and augmented reality (Au bord du réel, Jean-Christian Bourcart) and archives (AMC Seeds, Archives of Modern Conflicts; Time Atlas, Niina Vatanen) shape a fresh vision and perception of the living world and the social relations resulting from it. These narratives express our fears through the imagination (D’ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin, LesAssociés)—or violence (American Mirror, Philip Montgomery). These visions explore the aspects of the individual, the solitude (Métropolis, Barbara Wolff), gender (Identité et masque, Anno Wilms), or eroticism (Behind Desire, Chaussee 36), in connection with the theme of Fotohaus, Persona. An interrelated system facing a multitude of questions today, including health (Sauver les corps, LesAssociés/ParisBerlin), ecological and political ones (Drop Out, Hoël Duret), asking questions about the future of humankind (Surviving Humanity, Alberto Giuliani).

CROISIÈRE ASSOCIATION DU MÉJAN JEAN-LUC BERTINI Publication: Américaines Solitudes, Actes Sud, 2020. Born 1969 in Saint-Germain-en Laye, France. Lives and works in Ivry-sur-Seine, France. AMERICAN SOLITUDES Jean-Luc Bertini spent 10 years on the road photographing the United States in fits and starts and in every season. But can it still be photographed? For American Solitudes, he traveled cross-country without any preconceived ideas, if not the formal one of working in color and using a medium-sized 6x7 format. In the humanist vein inherited from the French tradition that allows him to bypass the "American photographic tableau", he observes how Americans occupy their space and questions their excess in occupying it, which often produces anonymity and loneliness. And since loneliness favors observation, it predisposes the photographer to believe in visions, orchestrations and mirages, so that these images sometimes seem to transcend the ordinary scenes they reveal.

CROISIÈRE ASSOCIATION DU MÉJAN JEAN-MICHEL ANDRÉ Publication: Borders, text by Wilfried N’Sondé, Born 1976 in Nantes, France. Lives and works in Tourcoing, France. Actes Sud, 2021. BORDERS This project started in the Calais jungle the day before the shantytown was evacuated in 2016. For three years, Jean-Michel André continued working on it in France, Italy, Spain and Tunisia, where he met refugees looking for a roof over their heads: women, children and men whose only wealth is the infinite time of hope. Borders is not designed as a linear series, nor is it really a narrative: more like a collection of stories. André photographs the traces of the areas he travels across by revealing shadows, wandering and the fragile border between the real and the imaginary, memory and the present. Time floats and spaces are uncertain. 51 CROISIÈRE ASSOCIATION DU MÉJAN REEVE SCHUMACHER Exhibition curator: Mélanie Bellue. Born 1981 in Minneapolis, United States. Lives and works in Arles, France. STUDIES IN VIBRATION Fascinated by the image of Mireille Mathieu, a few years ago Reeve Schumacher began accumulating the singer’s vinyl records with the frenzy of a fan or collector. He now owns over 300 of them, which his blade turns into a pixilated collage. The international star’s LP sleeves build an anachronistic bridge between the analog era’s raw material—the vinyl record—and a digital rendering. Two site-specific installations recall the tradition of optical and kinetic art. Beacon is a rotating work that combines sound and stroboscopic flashes. Made of suspended moorings, Echo is a monumental visualization of a reverberating sound wave. As usual, Schumacher combines an organic dimension with mathematics, while curves and fractals generate volumes that unfurl and often converge on a spiral—a recurring form in his work and a gateway to the infinite.

CROISIÈRE ASSOCIATION DU MÉJAN PAULINE FARGUE Exhibition curator: Mélanie Bellue. Born 1975 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris. PANOPTICON, 2019-2021 Panopticon is a work in progress, a small effort at formulating a critical and poetic statement from within what might be called the carceral syntax of Instagram. With tiny, 6-by-6 cm, endlessly looping sequences, designed exclusively by the Smartphone and using the functional requirements of this snapshot application, the subject is indeed one of power and the narrowing range of individual and collective freedoms. The resulting project, shown for the first time at the Rencontres d’Arles, is a video installation which deflects this use of online photography. In a looping, echoing form, the scenography connects montages to rhythms that are at times ecstatic, at times frenetic. It’s a long-term study risked from the eye of a social network storm, one that lacks existential depth to its very core, producing addictive, empty coasting. Pauline Fargue

LIBRAIRIE ACTES ASSOCIATION DU MÉJAN SUD MAGNUM AND STREET

Publication: Magnum et la street PHOTOGRAPHY photography, Actes Sud, 2021. Street photography—the art of capturing unexpected, unusual and extraordinary instants in the public space—has been in Magnum’s DNA since its founding in 1947. The show is based on the book Magnum et la street photography (Editions Actes Sud) edited by Stephen McLaren, who talked with the agency’s photographers about the pictures, many of which have never been published before, and their experience as street photographers. This immersion into the archives sheds light on how the genre evolved, from Cartier-Bresson and his peers such as Sergio Larrain to contemporary photographers, including Christopher Anderson, Raymond Depardon, Olivia Arthur, Susan Meiselas, Bruno Barbey, Inge Morath and Gueorgui Pinkhassov. Magnum is above all a photojournalism collective, so it is hardly surprising that their best work is often used to illustrate news articles.

52 MUSÉE DE MUSÉE DE LA CAMARGUE LA CAMARGUE CECIL KA

Exhibition curator: Born 1973 in Arles, France. Lives and works in Arles. Estelle Rouquette. Scenography : FLAMENCA! Studio Cécile & Thibault. Twenty years ago, Cécile Ka, a student at the University of Seville, worked on the similarities and differences between the Camargue Regional Natural Park and the Doñana National Park, located south of Seville. These are two protected natural areas where mental representations have forged strong identities, of which the regional costume is an expression. From 2017 to 2019, she photographed those whom contemporary Sevillian dress transforms into another version of themselves on festive days. In order to show the changes brought about by the embodiment of identity reflected in the costume, she also had the models pose naturally, simply dressed in a grey T-shirt. In 2020, Cecil Ka begins a new project with people wearing the costume of Arles.

53 LISA KOHL, from the Shelter series, Los Angeles, United States, 2019. Erre exhibition. 54 GRAND ARLES EXPRESS ISABEL MUÑOZ Untitled, 2017. 1001 exhibition (Centre de la photographie de Mougins). 56 AVIGNON COLLECTION JÉRÔME TAUB LAMBERT Born 1972 in Avignon, France. Lives and works in Avignon and in Paris, France. PURPLE AMERICA Exhibition curator: Stéphane Ibars. The series Purple America stems from a visual journey in the heart of America. Imagined as an anti-road trip across the United States, exclusively on Interstate routes, the artist uses a polymorphous approach where the aesthetics of documentary, conceptual photography and the lighting of avant-garde cinema are at once beckoned and held back—as if a common system of references specific to American imagery lingered on the surface as a reminder from the artist for us to move beyond it. With a gesture owing its originality to the whole of the undertaking—a year of preparation via literary, musical, cinematic, sociological, and philosophical sources followed by a three-month journey—Purple America strikes a balance between a demanding performative relationship with the land and an almost psychoanalytical sounding of beings and the places they inhabit. June 25 — September 5 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2021 pass.

AVIGNON ASSOCIATION STAGE LEFT JEAN VILAR JEAN VILAR AND AVIGNON: A PHOTOGRAPHIC WALK IN THE JARDIN DES DOMS Exhibition curator: Jean Vilar passed away 50 years ago, leaving Avignon, his festival, his Jean-Pierre Moulères assisted by Adrian Blancard and actors and his public orphaned. But his adventure has been continued Margot Laurens. and reinvented. After 75 years, the Cour d'honneur is still the inner sanctum. This outdoor photo show invites you to take an intimate walk through Vilar’s adventure in the original, enchanting Jardin des Doms outside performance times. Agnès Varda, the friend from Sète, Maurice Costa, the faithful local witness, and many other photographers reveal what goes on backstage at night in Avignon: work, team spirit, fatigue, play, rest, family and the far-seeing presence of Jean Vilar, who invented and headed this theater under the sun, far from Paris. The images attest to Avignon’s imprint on Jean Vilar’s theater as well as to the power, vitality and joy of making theater together, yesterday and today. June 4 — November 14 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2021 pass

MARSEILLE CENTRE CAMILLE FALLET PHOTOGRAPHIQUE Born 1977 in Les Lilas, France. Lives and works in Marseille, France. MARSEILLE FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (GO)

Exhibition curators: If you see Glasgow from the air, it looks like it’s been bombarded. Christophe Asso, Camille Fallet What was once the second city of the British Empire, its major port and Érick Gudimard. Exhibition coproduced by for metalworks, shipbuilding, and railway engineering, now has the Festival Photo Marseille. appearance of a former ruin that has been haphazardly rebuilt. Glasgow was once splendid, rich, and powerful. The city has been collapsing for a century. After peaking at more than one million people, it has lost almost half of its population and is now infamous for the life expectancy of residents born East End neighborhoods: just 54 years. The same forces of capitalism that are at work in other Western cities are re-sketching the visible face of the city. But even more than elsewhere, Glasgow is the epitome of capitalism, its physical expression. I have photographed the city with the 5x4 camera, making sure that each place and each object I captured is a profoundly exemplary and vivid clue to the city’s spirit. Camille Fallet June 19 — September 25 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2021 pass

57 MARSEILLE MUCEM ILARIA TURBA Born 1978 in Como, Italy. Lives and works in Milan, Italy.

Exhibition curator : Émilie Girard. THE DESIRE TO LOOK FURTHER Ilaria Turba’s exhibition stems from three years of work at the invitation of Zef-Scène Nationale de Marseille, where she connects desire with seeing and seeking new horizons. For the artist, this feeling speaks of a collective will to change in a time of global crisis, which depends on individuals and their ability to orient themselves differently in their everyday lives. Interviewing residents and users of Marseille's northern districts, Ilaria Turba let the participants picture their own desires and see far. The interviews were conducted two ways: in workshops or during spontaneous encounters while exploring places. The recordings were turned into images, drawings, objects, installations and performances. June 16 — September 27 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d'Arles 2021 pass.

MARSEILLE FRAC PROVENCE- KATIA KAMELI ALPES-CÔTE D’AZUR Born 1973 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Lives and works in Paris, France. SHE REKINDLED THE VIVIDNESS OF THE PAST Exhibition curator: Eva Barois de Caevel. Elle a allumé le vif du passé (“She Rekindled the Vividness of the Past”) is a monographic exhibition of work by Franco-Algerian artist and filmmaker Katia Kameli in the framework of Focus Femmes de la Saison Africa2020. Kameli’s approach is based on research: history and culture fuel her visual and poetic imagination. As part of the Saison Panafricaine devoted to presenting the viewpoint of African civil society both on the continent and in the Diaspora, it seemed necessary, especially in Marseille, to show the work of an artist who has focused on writing Algeria’s visual history in France and Algeria for two decades. May 20 — September 19 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2021 pass.

MARSEILLE FRAC PROVENCE- CLARISSE HAHN ALPES-CÔTE D’AZUR Born 1973 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris. LOS DESNUDOS Los Desnudos is a group of 400 Mexican farmers that the government drove off their land. They had been seeking justice for years, but nobody paid any attention to them; it was as if they did not exist. So they invented a new form of struggle to make their voices heard: protesting completely nude in the streets of Mexico twice a day until achieving victory. Los Desnudos is about the image of the colonized body and its re-appropriation by the indigenous subject. It is one of three films in the series Our Bodies Are a Weapon, which brings together people who assert the body as a locus of political and social resistance. The video will be screened at the Frac as part of Grand Arles Express, complementing Clarisse Hahn’s solo show at the Rencontres d’Arles 2021. June 11 — September 19 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2021 pass.

58 MOUGINS LE CENTRE DE ISABEL MUÑOZ LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Born 1951 in Barcelona, Spain. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain. DE MOUGINS 1001

Exhibition curator: The Centre de la photographie de Mougins, which opens to the public on July 3, François Cheval. focuses on the contemporary still and moving image as well as promoting and exhibiting photography’s many trends. The 2021 season begins with a show of recent work by internationally recognized Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz, who stands out for her use of extra-large formats and platinum prints. The outcome of seven trips between 2017 and 2020, her mostly unpublished Japan series is a surprising gallery of characters, all of whom remain rooted in alternative Japanese culture, between respecting and surpassing tradition. July 3 — October 3 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2021 pass.

NÎMES BIBLIOTHÈQUE MICHEL GLAIZE CARRÉ D’ART Born 1957 in Tours, France. Lives and works in Nîmes, France. CONVERSATIONS WITH MUYBRIDGE In Conversations with Muybridge, Michel Glaize offers a modern interpretation of the series Animal Locomotion, produced by Eadweard Muybridge between 1872 and 1885, focusing on a personal experience of the model-creator- viewer triangle within this series of broken-down movement. The interactive, multidisciplinary installation invites the audience to participate in a tangible experience of complicity with the renowned British photographer, after a reminder of his singular place in the history of photography. Called up individually, each member of the audience takes the place of the photographer and his model. Rather than interpreting the gesture as a precursor to cinema, here the paradoxes of a strict deconstruction of movement are interrogated. The artist seeks to place the audience in the strangeness of the experience, already a part of the installation, between play, physical involvement and the excitement of discovery. June 30 — September 18 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2021 pass.

NÎMES CARRÉ D’ART TARIK KISWANSON Born 1986 in Halmstad, Sweden. Lives and works in Paris, France.

Exhibition curator: Jean-Marc Prévost. MIRRORBODY Kiswanson’s interdisciplinary work encompasses sculpture, writing, performance, sound and video. A distinctive conceptual language emerges from his multi-faceted practice, in which rootlessness, regeneration and renewal are recurring themes. His show at Carré d’Art includes works about rootlessness, transformation, multiplication, disintegration, memory and time—all key issues in the artist’s continuous exploration of the human condition. His multi-faceted works, which can be figurative or abstract, oscillate between kaleidoscopic fragmentation and more realistic, recognizable forms. Kiswanson continuously investigates the body and its place in the world: its movement, dissolution, absence and renewal. May — October 24 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2021 pass.

59 NÎMES CARRÉ D’ART JEFF WEBER Born 1980. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Exhibition curator: As part of the collaborative project Kunsthalle Leipzig (2012-2017), in 2013 Jeff Jean-Marc Prévost Weber and artist Snejanka Mihaylova undertook an initiation journey to study Coptic Christianity, specifically its Gnostic component. The idea of gnosis as a personal path to knowledge resonated with Weber’s photography project Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, which he has been working on since 2009 in an attempt to define the paradoxical place where the artist operates at the crossroads between objective knowledge and private experience. A body of abstract photograms, Untitled (Neural Networks) is the outcome of speculation on neuronal activity and its transposition to a digital circuit. The images of black and white grids are generated by a network of artificial neurons— data processing software that Weber developed to emulate how neurons are interconnected in the brain. June 15 — November 14 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2021 pass

SAINT-RÉMY- DE-PROVENCE MICHEL SIMA MUSÉE ESTRINE Born 1912 in Slonim, Poland. Died 1987 in Largentière, France. FRANÇOISE GILOT AND PABLO PICASSO THROUGH MICHEL SIMA’S LENS In the early 1930s, Polish-born sculptor and photographer Michel Sima came to Paris to attend classes at the Grande Chaumière. He befriended many Montparnasse artists, including Picasso. Sima was the privileged witness of his life in the South of France with Françoise Gilot and their children. These are some of the outstanding pictures that will complement the Françoise Gilot exhibition. June 26 — September 26 Accessible upon presentation of the Rencontres d'Arles 2021 pass.

60 ILARIA TURBA Thea, Plan d’Aou, 2019, Marseille, from the Yearning to see far serie Yearning to see far exhibition (Mucem, Marseille). 61 OPENING WEEK LIZ JOHNSON ARTUR. 63 NIGHTS

MONDAY JULY 5 WEDNESDAY JULY 7 THÉÂTRE ANTIQUE CROISIÈRE 10 PM – MIDNIGHT - €15 10 PM - 12:30 AM – FREE ADMISSION (reduced rate 12-18 years: €10 / free for under 12 years). Ticketing On a first-come, first-served basis. online and on site from 9 PM BOOK AWARDS DOCUMENTARY FILMS PHOTO-TEXT, HISTORICAL AND AUTHOR’S BOOKS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY The best photo books of the year. The Rencontres d'Arles, Arte and the platform Main partner of the Book Awards: Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature. Tënk, propose an evening of documentary With support from the Fnac for the Author’s Book Award. films on photography during opening week, with a program of feature and short films. ALMUDENA ROMERO This year’s BMW artist-in-residence TRIBUTE TO FRANK HORVAT uses plants as photographic material Excerpt from the film Le Philosophe: Instants and critiques the flow of images. avec Frank Horvat by Sandra Wis By BMW Art & Culture with support from GOBELINS, School of 15 mn, 2019. Visual Arts and BenQ France. CARTE BLANCHE TO TËNK SABINE WEISS At the Croisière, the documentary film platform A tribute to the Women In Motion 2020 Tënk will screen shorts at the crossroads between prizewinner, who, at 96, still calls herself a photography and cinema. In echo to this event, photographer-artisan rather than an artist. find a program on tenk.fr until August 27, 6 films WOMEN IN MOTION AWARD to meet the photographers and their works. FOR PHOTOGRAPHY 2021 CHET’S ROMANCE LIZ JOHNSON ARTUR Bertrand Fèvre, 9 mn, 1988. Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles honor This film about a light beam falling in love with a Liz Johnson Artur with the third Women musical note also pays tribute to musician Chet Baker. In Motion Award for photography. The music of a legend, the portrait of a romance. Liz Johnson Artur produced a collection of photos GUILLERMA on the world’s African diaspora. Her dynamic documentary photographs, in black & white and Aída Esther Bueno Sarduy, 17 mn, 2019. color, paint a complex picture of black identities. The son of a well-to-do Havana family recalls the Rather than working with “subjects”, she photographs lasting memory left by his nanny, a black woman human beings and uses her work to tell stories. named Guillermina who raised him in the 1940s. “What interests me are the people, the people I don’t 6 FARM. A FILM FROM MY PARISH see represented anywhere else,” states the artist. Tony Donoghue, 7 mn, 2008. The film is comprised of six stories from six farms, BERTRAND BELIN - TRIO in County Tipperary, Ireland. It was produced Feat. Barbara Carlotti using a digital camera and a minidisc recorder. Songwriter, composer and performer Bertrand Belin CARTE BLANCHE TO ARTE will offer a unique experience at the Théâtre Antique With broadcast documentaries on ARTE and by taking a musical look at the festival’s program. virtual exhibitions on arte.tv, the european channel , faithful partner of the Rencontres d’Arles, celebrates photography in all its forms. GISÈLE FREUND, INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A VISIONARY PHOTOGRAPHER Teri Wehn-Damisch, 52 mn, 2021. A portrait of Franco-German photographer, sociologist and writer Gisèle Freund, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933 for Paris, where she pioneered color portraits of artists and writers. One of the few woman reporters who joined Magnum at its creation, she was both a player and a thinker about photography. Produced by ARTE France and Complices Films. 64 The Rencontres d’Arles has asked author Antwaun THURSDAY JULY 8 Sargent, curator of the exhibition The New THÉÂTRE ANTIQUE Black Vanguard, to orchestrate the first global 10 PM – Midnight - €15 Photo Slam. Following a call for participation (reduced rate 12-18 years: €10 / free for under 12 years). to emerging photographers as open and Ticketing online and on site from 9 PM inclusive as possible, those selected will have the opportunity to show their work on the stage of PRIX PICTET the Théâtre Antique with the greatest freedom. Presentation of the artists shortlisted for the With: award’s ninth edition, whose theme is fire. CRISTOBAL ASCENCIO ÀSÌKÒ PRIX DE LA PHOTO MADAME FIGARO ROMAIN BAGNARD ARLES 2021 RIVER CLAURE This award is given to a woman photographer MORGANE DELFOSSE on the Rencontres d’Arles program. JUSTINE GABRIEL ELISABETH GOMES-BARRADAS PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS PHUMZILE KHANYILE OF THE RED CROSS DANIEL MEBAREK Preview of Un Monde à guérir, a show that will be held LUCAS PAGÈS in Geneva in 2021 and Arles in 2022, an unprecedented immersion into the photo archives of the International Accompanied on the turntables by BANGA. Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. With support from the Swiss Confederation and the Canton and City of Geneva. SATURDAY JULY 10 DESIDERATION (RADIO LEVANIA) THÉÂTRE ANTIQUE Tune in to Radio Levania: in an initiatory sound 10 PM – Midnight - €15 session with subliminal video, ghostly figures (reduced rate 12-18 years: €10 / free for under 12 years). from Desideration* tell of losing and desiring the Ticketing online and on site from 9 PM stars. In the voice of Levania (pulsation of the PHOTO FOLIO REVIEW stars), that of terrestrial Anamanda Sîn, and the nebulous voice of the Hostess, a polyphonic song Announcement of the winner chosen by the of love and disaster is deployed in the dark of a experts of the festival's portfolio readings. Théâtre Antique built to incubate dreams. LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK A proposition by SMITH. Text: Lucien Raphmaj. AWARD Interpretation: Nadège Piton, Adrian Gebhart, François Chaignaud. An award for the best dummy book. Music: Victoria Lukas. With support from the Luma Foundation. Set: Diplomates. *Exhibition Desideration (Anamanda Sîn), at Monoprix. LOUIS ROEDERER DISCOVERY AWARD The Rencontres d’Arles associates the Louis Roederer Discovery Award with galleries, art centers, associative spaces, independent venues, and institutions. This year’s 11 shortlisted projects question and rethink techniques and genres. They reflect a preoccupation with the body and its immersion in the world as much as with the materiality of photography. With support from the Louis Roederer Foundation and Polka.

THE RENCONTRES LIVE MAGAZINE Live Magazine is a crazy idea—a unique, ephemeral show. That must be the key to its success. By inventing a living newspaper and putting photographers, journalists and artists on the stage of the Théâtre Antique, Live Magazine restores all the power of true stories: their ability to captivate, transmit emotion, and engross an audience. In images, sounds or their own voices, they recount an unforgettable meeting, a consuming passion or an investigation conducted for the first time. The stories are 100% unpublished and 99% true. PHOTO SLAM! 65 THE DAY Encounters, lectures, panel discussions

JULY 4 – 11 JULY 4 – 11 CONFERENCES AND DEBATES PHOTO FOLIO REVIEW Conferences and debates will take place Launched in 2006, Photo Folio Review offers throughout the opening week, including the portfolio readings during opening week. It is open Rencontres/Le Point, the nonante-neuf Talks by registration to professional photographers, and The Eyes Talks. Complete program and photography school students and advanced amateurs. access conditions on rencontres-arles.com Photography experts from around the world do the readings. Every year, they vote for their favorite portfolio and choose a winner JULY 4 – 11 whose work is shown the next one. EXHIBITION TOURS Due to Covid restrictions, the portfolio readings will take place online this year. Photographers and curators present their shows On registration. during opening week. Then, from July 7 to September 22, a team of photographer-mediators give daily tours of exhibition venues—a sensitive, technical and interactive approach to the festival.

66 ARLES & Co. OUR FAVORITE OFF-PROGRAM EXHIBITIONS Special rate upon presentation of a festival pass. ASSOCIATION DU MÉJAN JEAN-PIERRE FORMICA THE EMERGENCE OF THE VISIBLE On both floors of the Méjan chapel, Jean-Pierre Formica presents a world immersed in memory, made up of salt sculptures, ceramics and paintings. The works include his latest Dedans Dehors formats and in situ installations like contemporary archeology.

May — August 15

MUSÉE RÉATTU GRAZIANO ARICI NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT Musée Réattu presents a selection of Graziano Arici's personal works, chosen from among his representative series – Carnival, Intérieurs, Angels, Als der Kind War, The Winter of Our Discontent, Lost Objects, The State of Things, Le Grand Tour, The Heart of Darkness – produced between 1979 and 2020, in around 400 images from an archive of the world, a “state of things”. June — October

MUSÉE RÉATTU DOROTHEA LANGE THE GRAPES OF WRATH, SAM STOURDZÉ ENDOWMENT In 1998, Paris' Hôtel de Sully hosted the exhibition: Dorothea Lange, the curation for which was provided by Sam Stourdzé. Stourdzé produced 36 silver prints for the event, using negatives held at the Oakland Museum of California. Especially close to Arles, he donated the prints to Musée Réattu. They cover the period 1933-1940, from Lange's early street photography in San Francisco to collections from her assignments for the Resettlement Administration, starting in 1935. June — October

68 OUTSIDE ARLES JIMEI × ARLES INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL THE RENCONTRES D'ARLES IN CHINA Created by Sam Stourdzé and Chinese photographer RongRong, founder of the Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing and Xiamen, the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival attracted more than 52,000 visitors around 26 exhibitions, including 6 from Arles in 2020. The festival’s ambition is to assert its role as Asia’s main photography platform. The festival hosts its own Discovery Award and the first ever photography award in China dedicated to women photographers. November 26, 2021 — January 3, 2022

SERENDIPITY ARLES GRANT Serendipity Arts Foundation and the Rencontres d’Arles have launched a major grant for photography, video and new media based on the vibrancy of Franco-Indian relations to foster regional cooperation. The initiative is supported by the Institut Français in India. The 2020 Serendipity Arles Grant has been given to Purushothaman Sathish Kumar of Kanchipuram, India. He will receive INR 1,200,000 (around €15,000) to develop his project and present it at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2022. The jury shortlisted 10 submissions among the hundreds that were received from many countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

70 EDUCATION & TRAINING PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

Interaction between great professionals and SUMMER COURSES practitioners on every level has been a constant July — September feature of the Rencontres d’Arles since its This dense, summer-long program is taught inception. The photography courses have reflected by great photographers, including many who that desire for over 40 years, allowing amateurs have exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles. Peerless and professionals to personally engage with photographers and educators, several of them each other every year in an approach to creation have taught at the Rencontres in past years hewing as closely as possible to the aesthetic, and do us the honor of returning this summer. ethical and technical issues of photography. They will be led by: The Rencontres d’Arles is a lifelong learning Corinne Mercadier, Julien Pébrel, Paolo Roversi, centre. Depending on their experience, Françoise Huguier, Denis Rouvre, Jérôme Bonnet, participants can receive funding from a Fannie Escoulen, Frédéric Stucin, Antoine d’Agata, collector organization and various programs Jane Evelyn Atwood, Klavdij Sluban, Léa Crespi, Éric (AFDAS, FAFCEA, training plan, etc.). Bouvet, Charlotte Abramow, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Patrick Le Bescont, Denis Dailleux, Bertrand Meunier, Information and estimate: Jean-Christophe Béchet, Claudine Doury, Ludovic [email protected] Carème, Stéphanie Lacombe, Yann Rabanier, Ambroise Tézenas, Christian Caujolle, Olivier Metzger, Fabienne With technical support from Fujifilm. Pavia, Mathieu Asselin and Ljubisa Danilovic… WEEKENDS WORKSHOP EVENING March — October PRESENTATIONS The Rencontres d’Arles offers short weekend Festival office, Cour Fanton courses year-round. They focus on many themes, light, the city, portraits and reportage… PROJECTION-MEETING NIGHT These workshops are led by: The Rencontres d’Arles holds evening projection- Romain Boutillier, Nicolas Havette, Aurore encounters as part of the photography courses. Valade, Yann Linsart, Florent Demarchez… These outdoor events bring together photographers who lead the courses held each week. DISTANCE LEARNING During these special evenings, slide shows introduce their work to audience members, Year-round who can ask them about their approach, This exciting two-month experience will experience and vision of photography in help participants develop their skills. a friendly atmosphere in the heart of Arles. It alternates online individual and group discussions with Bertrand Meunier, Jane Free admission, subject to the available number of seats: Evelyn Atwood, Yann Rabanier and others. Tuesday, July 13 at 10pm Tuesday, August 3 at 9:30pm Tuesday, September 21 at 9:00pm

SPRING COURSES IN ARLES THE PARTICIPANTS’ GALLERY The Rencontres d’Arles will feature a selection April & May of participants’ work from the spring and summer A wide variety of themes is offered, from portraits courses online. The goal is to show new visions to reportage, personal experience, narration, and share projects built with passion during light and making a photography book. Arles is a an immersive photography course in Arles. work setting and an ideal playground for many photographers who take advantage of Camargue’s The series can be found at outstanding light and landscapes to make workshopsgalerie.rencontres-arles.com personal series day after day by alternating between taking shots and analyzing images. With: Jane Evelyn Atwood, Paulo Nozolino, Claudine Doury, Vee Speers, Patrick le Bescont, Yann Rabanier, Klavdij Sluban, Laurence Leblanc, Jérôme Bonnet, Antoine d’Agata. 72 IMAGE EDUCATION Teaching how to see

In the "age of images", teaching children A YEAR IN IMAGES how to decipher and look at them critically BACK TO SCHOOL IN IMAGES: is a matter of good citizenship. The public SPECIAL EDITION usefulness of image education no longer needs 2021/2022 school year demonstrating. Democracy depends on it. In response to the current health situation, Aware of all that, for many years the the Rencontres d'Arles is offering a modified Rencontres d’Arles has led an energetic visual version of its flagship educational event, which education policy backed by many private, traditionally involves hosting around 10,000 institutional and educational partners. students in September to visit the exhibitions. In 2021, the festival has decided to go out to The Rencontres d'Arles has exponentially developed educational establishments in the fall and offer its education program for over 16 years. a program on image education during school It offers many courses and mediation activities hours, one that’s related to the festival’s program year-round and designs mobile teaching tools and to formal education in arts and culture. to support this mission in France and overseas. The first year treats the exhibitions of Sabine Weiss (Life of a Photographer) and Charlotte Perriand The Pause Photo Prose game and the OBSERVE- (How do we want to live: the Politics of Photomontage). SEE visual education platform provide a rising number of inquisitive minds with the keys they need to confidently understand images. RESOURCES The teaching activities’ partners: Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, Rectorats des académies OBSERVE-SEE d’Aix-Marseille et Nice, Direction Régionale de l’Alimentation, de l’Agriculture et de la Forêt de Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES IMAGE Ministère de la culture, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Région Sud Provence- EDUCATION PLATFORM Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône, ville d’Arles. The Rencontres d'Arles has developed Observe-See, a digital platform with free photography teaching tools and resources. WORKSHOPS ON ART It offers schoolchildren and the education community 36 photographs selected from the & CRITIQUE festival’s different years and information on their authors, avenues of reflection and specific proposals #REVOLUTION for fun workshops based on this body of work. Smartphones, social networks and revolution. Participants can also give feedback about the Representing major events in an age of 2.0. workshops. Users can explore images by examining Teaching workshop (in progress) with a group the context of production and distribution. of students in their final year at the Mistral middle It also offers content and resources to better school in Arles, regarding the exhibition Thawra! understand photography’s world and ecosystem. Revolution! Sudan: Story of an Uprising, led by Juliette Agnel as part of the Africa2020 Season.

73 FACING PHOTOGRAPHS PRACTICE AND A NEW TEACHING TOOL FOR AN ATTENTIVE CRITIQUE OF THE IMAGE TRAINING PROGRAMS Developed by the Rencontres d’Arles in the form of a “board game,” Facing Photographs is IMAGESIN primarily intended to aid the staff of the Juvenile AN INNOVATIVE PROGRAM FOR Protection Service in their mission to teach PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND SUPPORT image literacy to the youth they support. Academic year 2020/2021 The tool facilitates the discussion of social The Rencontres d'Arles is pleased to participate in issues in a small group using photography. the program ImagesIn, alongside the BAL and Jeu de Paume, initiated by École nationale supérieure de To reach a broader audience, a digital version is la photographie d'Arles (ENSP) in response to Culture currently being developed in partnership with the Pro, a project proposal by the Ministry of Culture. Institut pour la Photographie de Lille, and will take place on the platform for visual literacy (obsververvoir. The project aims to train and support ENSP graduates com) developed by the Rencontres d’Arles. in designing and prototyping innovative proposals PAUSE PHOTO PROSE in image education in collaboration with pilot classes at primary schools, middle schools and A GAME TO OBSERVE, LISTEN high schools in Arles, thanks to invaluable support AND REASON AS A TEAM from the Aix-Marseille Board of Education. Developed by the Rencontres d’Arles as an experiment with professionals in photography Since autumn of 2020, five educational and education, Pause Photo Prose is a game establishments in Arles have welcomed five that analyzes photography in its history, many graduates from the École Nationale Supérieure meanings, and uses. The game, a true spur for de la Photographie chosen for the project. curiosity, expression, attention and collective reflection, appeals to a great diversity of faculties, such as speed, scrutiny and team spirit. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING THE PROFESSIONAL IMAGE EDUCATION MEETINGS 6TH EDITION SEPTEMBER 23-25 Each year, the Rencontres d'Arles invites cultural, educational and social players and anybody with questions about image education to meet each other for three days of conferences, round tables, workshops, experiments and experience sharing. TAILORMADE COURSES & EXPERIMENTATION All year round on the whole territory Every year, the Rencontres d’Arles offers training in using the festival’s tools on request. The courses are open to all but mainly aimed at the education community, public reading networks, cultural organizations and social workers.

74 PRACTICAL INFORMATION EXHIBITIONS & RATES

EXHIBITIONS JULY 4 THROUGH BOX OFFICES / SEPTEMBER 26 FESTIVAL STORES (some exhibition sites in the town center will be closed before September 26). FESTIVAL OFFICE 34 rue du Docteur Fanton 10:00 AM TO 7:30 PM DAILY From June 21st to July 3rd: from 11AM to 7PM (last admission 30 minutes before closing). Closed Sunday and Monday morning From July 4th to September 26th – Open every The Rencontres d’Arles are completely day (including weekends and holidays). bilingual (French/English). The exhibition catalog will be available early July. PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE (co-publication of the Rencontres d’Arles and From July 4th to September 26th: from 9:30AM to 7PM Éditions Actes Sud, English and French editions). – Open every day (including weekends and holidays). FOUR-DAY PASS YOUR FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE One entry per site, valid for up to CUSTOMIZED TO THE HEALTH four days, at your choice CRISIS From July 4 to September 26 €36 online — Reduced rate: €28 The Rencontres d’Arles is prepared €42 onsite ticket office to host guests following the health — Reduced rate: €34 protocols currently in effect, paying special attention to controlling DAY PASS the capacity of each exhibition venue. One entry per site, valid for the day, at your choice In order to ensure the comfort of From July 4 to September 26 guests, the Rencontres d’Arles asks €28 online each guest to plan their visit to the — Reduced rate: €23 festival. €34 onsite ticket office If you wish, you can reserve — Reduced rate: €29 your days of visit as soon as you buy your passes and single SINGLE ADMISSION admissions. You will be able to From €5,50 to €15 for each modify them later via our website by entering your ticket number. REDUCED RATE (NON-TRANSFERABLE) During your visit, the Rencontres Students, job-seekers, large families, assistants d’Arles advises guests to consult the for the disabled persons, Pass Carmillon, festival application, which measures ADAGP members, Pass Culture. the current capacity of each site, in Non-transferable reduced rate tickets reserved order for each guest to plan their visit online must be picked up in one of the ticket accordingly and avoid waiting in lines offices or on the exhibition sites Croisière and Mécanique générale, with proof of status of less than three months and ID for the ticket bearer. Visitors will be able to buy their tickets either FREE ADMISSION online and benefit from lower prices (€7 less on passes) or in the ticket offices / festival stores. Under 18. Non-transferable free admission: Arles The online box office opens June 10, 2021: residents, disabled persons, beneficiaries of the AAH, RSA, ASS, or ASPA.

Online ticket sales: rencontres‑arles.com FREE FOUR-DAY PASS FOR ARLES RESIDENTS: One entry per site, valid for up to four days of your choice from July 4 to September 26. Pick up your

76 tickets at the festival reception from June 21st, 34 admission per exhibition venue during opening week. rue du Docteur Fanton, on presentation of an ID Please note that the press e-badge does not include free and a proof of status of less than three months. admission to evening events at the Théâtre Antique. PROFESSIONAL E-BADGE THE E-PRESS INVITATION One entry per site, valid for up to four If you come after Sunday July 11, you must apply days, from July 4 to July 11. for accreditation online (on the €60 online rencontres-arles. com website’s press page). onsite ticket office €66 The press e-invitation is non-transferable and valid Preferential rates for groups from 10 people. for one admission per exhibition venue from July PROFESSIONAL E-BADGE + CATALOG TO BE 12 to September 26 on three dates that you will be PICKED UP UP AT PROFESSIONALS’ COUNTER asked to specify when completing your accreditation (option available online only) form. If your application is accepted, the Rencontres €96 online d’Arles press office will send you a confirmation e-mail with an attached press e-invitation. Non-transferable badge for professionals in the Your online application must be submitted fields of the image, proof required (SIRET or at least 48 hours in advance (two working AGESSA number; letter from company management; days). Careful, this year in particular, no other document proving professional activity). accreditation will be granted on site unless an application has been submitted beforehand. BENEFITS: – One admission per exhibition site, valid PRESS SERVICE during the opening week of July 4 to 11; Claudine Colin Communication – Access to the evenings of the Théâtre Marine Maufras du Chatellier : + 33 (0)6 88 77 46 71 Antique at the preferential rate of €5; et Alexis Gregorat : + 33 (0)6 45 03 16 89 – 5% reduction on festival catalogs and 3 rue de Turbigo – 75001 Paris – France publications with presentation of badge Tel : + 33 (0)1 42 72 60 01 – Fax : + 33 (0)1 42 72 50 23 at Rencontres d’Arles bookstores; [email protected] – Social networking functions dedicated to professionals on our mobile application. GROUP SERVICE Request professional e-badge via “My Account” The Rencontres d’Arles offers discounts on on our online sales site rencontres‑arles. bookings of more than 10 people made with com from June 3, 2021. the public affairs department. They are intended for organizations, works councils and organizers For additional information: who wish to discover or introduce Arles and the Aïnhoa Piola-Urtizberea festival as individuals or during an organized trip. [email protected] +33 (0)4 90 96 76 06 Group visits will be subject to the capacity of each venue. PRESS ACCREDITATION Non-transferable accreditation exclusively for Information and booking: journalists, editors and press photographers working Geoffroy Meyer on a story for their editor or editor-in-chief. [email protected] Accreditation is issued on presentation of + 33 (0) 4 88 65 83 40 documentation (valid press card, letter from an editor allowing you to justify an editorial project for the 2021 edition). It is non-transferable and provides admission to exhibitions only. This year, all the press accreditations will be digital in order to limit the visitor flow at the festival’s reception office. The Rencontres d’Arles offers two press accreditation formats: the press e-badge and the press e-invitation. They can be shown at the venue’s entrance on a smartphone or printed out on paper. Press accreditation will open on June 3rd. THE E-PRESS BADGE If you come during opening week (July 4-11), you must apply for accreditation online (on the rencontres-arles.com website’s press page). The press e-badge is non-transferable and valid for one 77 ARLES, HOW TO GET THERE?

BY ROAD From Paris/Lyon/Marseille/Nice: motorway ARLES 2021 A7, then A54 – exit 5, Arles Centre-Ville. From Toulouse/Bordeaux: motorway A9, APP then A54 – exit 5, Arles Centre-Ville. Ride-sharing: covoiturage.fr YOUR OFFICIAL PASSPORT Electric cars may be recharged at two stations, TH 9 avenue Jean Monnet, 13 200 Arles. TO THE 52 EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL. BY TRAIN oui.sncf The gateway to the whole program of exhibitions, Tél : (+ 33) 36 35 events, and places. Buy and display your TGV Paris-Arles: 4 hours e‑tickets, personalize your itinerary TGV Paris-Avignon + connection to and calendar, get must‑ see alerts. Dedicated Arles: 2 hours 40 + 40 min social network available for professionals.

BY PLANE Free App Available for Android and iOS, in French and English Nîmes airport: 25 km away Marseille-Provence airport: 65 km away Avignon airport: 35 km away

BY BUS THE LOUIS VUITTON CITY GUIDE APP Regular service to/from Marseille, Nîmes, Avignon. More information For its third edition, the Louis Vuitton City Guide lepilote.com (travel in the Bouches-du-Rhône region) makes a stop in Arles with a collector’s edition edgard-transport.fr (transfers from in honor of the Camargue city and its world- the Département du Gard) renowned festival. Illustrated with unpublished photographs and distributed in bookstores and selected Louis Vuitton stores in France, the mobile version of this guide will also be available through the App Store and downloadable for free during the festival, both in French and English.

78 THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Rencontres d’Arles is a non-profit organisation Département des Bouches-du-Rhône whose budget consists of 27 % public funding, Martine Vassal, President of the Bouches- with 18 % coming from private partners and 55 % du-Rhône General Council from receipts (principally ticket sales and derivatives). Ministère de la Culture François Quintin, Deputy Director for Visual Arts, Committee General Direction of Creative Arts Hubert Védrine, president Bénédicte Lefeuvre, Regional Director for Françoise de Panafieu, vice-presidente Cultural Affairs, Provence‑Alpes‑Côte d’Azur Marin Karmitz, treasurer Constance Rivière, secretary Institut français Erol Ok, General Director Honorary Members École nationale supérieure Ville d’Arles de la photographie d’Arles Patrick de Carolis, Mayor of Arles Marta Gili, Director Centre des monuments nationaux Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Philippe Belaval, President Renaud Muselier, President of the Provence- Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Council Suitably Qualified Members of The Board of Directors Maja Hoffmann Françoise Nyssen Florence Taddéi Reckinger

79 PARTNERS ABOUT THE LUMA FOUNDATION Maja Hoffman established the Luma Foundation in Deeply-rooted in the region, Luma’s initiative Switzerland in 2004. Luma focuses on the interplay generates and provides for a thriving dynamic, of arts, culture, human rights, environment, education and has earned solid recognition over the years and research, striving to create a space where different for its various projects and programs in the arts. disciplines can meet, interact, and influence one The Parc des Ateliers includes six historic industrial another. This vision manifests in the experimental buildings, five of which have been renovated campus Luma Arles: a cultural center that provides by New York-based German architect Annabelle artists opportunities to experiment, produce and Selldorf. The site’s iconic Luma Tower, designed present new work in close collaboration with other by architect Frank Gehry, is the finishing touch artists, curators, scientists, innovators and audiences on the varied spaces, whose modularity allows for the production and reception of interdisciplinary Since 2010, Luma has commissioned and presented programs. The surrounding gardens and public the work of over 100 artists, thinkers and innovators park, designed by Belgian landscape architect at venues across Arles. Since 2013, it has overseen Bas Smets, are being refitted, allowing the Parc the transformation of the Parc des Ateliers, a des Ateliers to open to the public this summer, 2021. 7-hectares former industrial site, located by the celebrated UNESCO World Heritage sites of Arles.

81 BMW AND CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY BMW Group has been a proud patron of the that’s carried out over the course of their residency Rencontres d’Arles since 2010. This year, BMW and exhibited at Arles. Almudena Romero has an Group is celebrating a double anniversary: original experimental and scientific approach, with 50 years of cultural engagement globally, a reflection committed on the relationship between and 10 years of the BMW Residency in France. ecology and production. Her work totally echoes the BMW Group's vision of innovation at the service BMW Group France supports photography of the planet and of production that must always be throughout an artist residency by providing a place more sustainable and respectful of the environment." for free expression and encourages the emergence states Vincent Salimon, CEO at BMW Group France. of talents. Agility, creativity and innovation are as essential to photography as they are The BMW Residency is held in partnership with to creating sustainable, responsible mobility. GOBELINS, School of Visual Arts, which welcomes the winner over a three-month period, offering them Initiated in 2011, the BMW Residency provides, technical, academic and material support. BMW each year, exclusive support to an emerging Group France participates in the equal opportunities photographer, selected by a jury of leading program initiated by GOBELINS, offering a scholarship figures, to produce an experimental work. to two students per year to finance their education. In addition to an 8,000-euro grant, the winner’s work is exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles, Thus, transmission of knowledge and lasting as well as Paris Photo, and is published in a book commitment are the watchwords of BMW Group for the BMW Art & Culture collection. France’s partnership with the Rencontres d’Arles. For the 2021 edition of the Rencontres d’Arles, the award winner Almudena Romero presents Press contact for BMW France : Maryse Bataillard The Pigment Change at the Cloître Saint-Trophime. + 33 (0)1 30 03 19 41 [email protected] “As partners of art-in-the-making, each year we give bmw.fr/artetculture carte blanche to an artist with an ambitious project

82 SNCF GARES & CONNEXIONS Spotlight on culture Faithful to the Rencontres d’Arles, SNCF Gares Since its creation, SNCF Gares & Connexions & Connexions is supporting the festival for the 12th has chosen to put the cultural life of regions consecutive year with four exhibitions in resonance and cities at the center of stations: art is essential with its program, on show at stations: Paris Gare de to life, personal enrichment and living together. Lyon, Marseille Saint Charles, Arles and Avignon TGV. In close association with institutions and local cultural life, train stations become transports In 2020, SNCF Gares & Connexions was strongly to new territories, with each station reimagining committed to making the festival happen despite the ideas of exchange, travel and movement. its cancelation. Thus the project Hexagone, by photographers Eric Bouvet & Yan Morvan, which was A main partner of major institutions and events initially scheduled for presentation at the Abbaye in photography, such as Jeu de Paume, LE BAL, de Montmajour, was shown exclusively at the Avignon Circulation(s), ImageSingulières and La Gacilly, TGV and Paris Gare de Lyon stations. Thousands SNCF Gares & Connexions is also dedicated to of guests and travelers were able to experience these contemporary art and music. Today, over a hundred striking photographs for a portrait of France today. stations across the country inspire the day-to- day lives of travelers and residents year-round. From design and operations to marketing, SNCF Gares & Connexions is the train station specialist. Press contact: Gaëlle Le Ficher Its strategic vision is to make stations desirable in +33 (0)6 17 50 92 53 order to make trains desirable. With 3,000 stations [email protected] in France and 4,700 staff members, SNCF Gares & garesetconnexions.sncf/fr #artengare Connexions is committed to modernizing, improving the use of its stations, and providing new services ` to its ten million daily travelers and visitors.

The exhibition Hexagone in front of the station Gare de Lyon – Summer 2020. Photo by David Paquin – SNCF Gares & Connexions

83 KERING | WOMEN IN MOTION A global luxury group, Kering manages the In 2019, Kering partnered with the Rencontres development of a series of renowned Houses in d’Arles to launch the program Women In Motion fashion, leather goods, jewelry and watches: Gucci, in Arles. The partnership aims to contribute Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Alexander to the acknowledgment of women photographers McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, Dodo, and of gender equality in this field. While continuing Qeelin, Ulysse Nardin, Girard-Perregaux, as well to assist talented young women through the as Kering Eyewear. By placing creativity at the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro Arles, Kering heart of its strategy, Kering enables its Houses to has created the Women In Motion LAB at the set new limits in terms of their creative expression Rencontres d’Arles. In its early years, the program while crafting tomorrow's luxury in a sustainable was dedicated to large-scale research into women’s and responsible way. We capture these beliefs contribution to the world history of photography. in our signature: “Empowering Imagination”. Kering also launched the annual Women In Motion Award for photography, which celebrates Kering has been committed to gender equality since the career of a leading woman photographer. its creation. Its initiatives include Women In Motion, a program launched in 2015 by Kering, a partner Women In Motion is a key platform for changing of the Festival de Cannes. Women In Motion focuses mentalities, recognizing noteworthy figures, and on women’s recognition and their inestimable reflecting on the place of women and the attention contribution to the film industry, seeking to emphasize paid to them in arts and culture, keeping in mind that and offer concrete support for women in cinema. the question of inequality affects all artistic fields.

The program has since been expanded to the domain Press contacts: of arts and culture, where gender inequality is all too Emilie Gargatte present, despite its being one of the most powerful + 33 (0)1 45 64 61 20 vehicles of change. In photography, for example, the [email protected] Eva Dalla Venezia program has supported the Prix de la Photo Madame + 33 (0)1 45 64 65 06 Figaro Arles since 2016, and Jimei x Arles in China. [email protected] kering.com

The Women In Motion award and the Women in Motion LAB

The Women In Motion Award honors the career of an outstanding female photographer and will be awarded on July 5 during an evening event at the Théâtre Antique in Arles. The prize comprises an acquisition of €25,000 worth of her works for the collection of the Rencontres d’Arles. Launched in 2019, the first Award went to Susan Meiselas, while the 2020 edition recognized the work of Sabine Weiss. Separately, Kering created the Women In Motion LAB, which in the first two years was devoted to highlighting the contribution made by women to the world history of photography.

84 THE FONDATION JAN MICHALSKI POUR L’ÉCRITURE ET LA LITTÉRATURE In 2004, Vera Michalski-Hoffmann set up the of artists that bring together image and word are made Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la available. The writers-in-residence program conceived Littérature in memory of her husband as a way to offer a conducive environment for creativity, of continuing their shared commitment to writers. has welcomed novice and established writers of all backgrounds who are beginning, continuing, or Designed as a small community in the heart of an completing a project. Furthermore, the Jan Michalski inspirational natural setting, the foundation develops Prize for Literature, awarded annually, strengthens diverse activities, aiming to foster creative writing the foundation’s actions by honoring an outstanding and encourage reading. The library — multicultural, work of world literature. The foundation also provides multilingual, and open to all — has near 70,000 grants for numerous literature-related projects. works of modern and contemporary literature. The auditorium also hosts diverse cultural events: The Fondation Jan Michalski offers a unique literary discussions, crime novel workshops, readings, cultural space, open to the world, where writers, projections, plays, concerts, performances… In artists, and members of the public mix. addition, every year the foundation stages temporary Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature exhibitions showing writing, literature, and books En Bois Désert 10 from different perspectives: the world of writers, CH-1147 Montricher the history of movements and genres, and the works fondation-janmichalski.com

85 LËT'Z ARLES LOUIS ROEDERER (LUXEMBOURG) FOUNDATION For the last 4 years, Lët’z Arles has been taking a The Louis Roederer Foundation was created bit of Luxembourgish creativity to the Rencontres ten years ago with the purpose of perpetuating d´Arles. A non-profit organisation supporting and Louis Roederer’s sponsorship activity which promoting photography and artists connected with followed on from its discovery of the photography Luxembourg, Lët’z Arles offers artists a comprehensive collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France creation and distribution package every year, in 2003. Since being awarded the title of “Major with a grant enabling the staging of an exhibition Patron of Culture and Arts”, the Foundation has within the Rencontres’ associated programme, continued to demonstrate its commitment to art the support of a curator for more than a year, the through its support for the Grand Palais as well publication of a book and a tour of their exhibition as its latest partnership with the Villa Medicis. in Luxembourg. A major player in the promotion But, in all the creative and artistic endeavours that of Luxembourgish photography abroad, Lët’z Arles it sponsors in these iconic places of culture and also works to promote the work of photographers intelligence, whether through the Bibliothèque from Luxembourg within their own country. Nationale de France Photographic Research Grant, For the 2021 edition, artists Daniel Reuter and the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award Lisa Kohl were selected by an international jury at La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, the Louis for their projects designed for the Chapelle de Roederer Foundation Revelation Prize at the la Charité. The jury was comprised of: Paul di Deauville American Film Festival, and the Discovery Felice, Marta Gili, Danielle Igniti, Steph Meyers, Award at the Rencontres d'Arles, the Louis Roederer Sam Stourdzé, Michèle Walerich and Christoph Foundation plays its favorite role in supporting Wiesner, chaired by Florence Reckinger-Taddeï. and nurturing the great artists of tomorrow. Lët’z Arles is supported by Luxembourg’s Ministry of Culture; "There’s a reason that the strong affinity between the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (CNA); the stART-up fund; the initiative LuXembourg - Let’s make it happen; and the city of the Louis Roederer Foundation and the art Luxembourg. of photography should culminate in Arles, where The association is placed under the high patronage of Her Royal photography expresses in full liberty, in so many Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess. charming recesses, the auspicious ascendance For more information: www.letzarles.lu of a magnificent art. This year, in the lovely setting Facebook : @Letzarles of the Theatre Antique in Arles, we will be present Instagram : @letzarles to give the Louis Roederer Discovery Award to an artist and thus celebrate the friendship that has guided the Foundation's choices since its creation.", says Michel Janneau, General Secretary of the Louis Roederer Foundation.

Media Contact: L’art en plus +33 (0)1 45 53 62 74 Amandine Legrand - [email protected]

86 SWITZERLAND Since 2015, Switzerland has been a partner of the Rencontres d’Arles. Why? Don’t our artists and institutes have enough talent on their own? Should nationality play a role in the annual photography festival’s program? Should Swiss Photography be preserved like a protected species? After this partnership, Swiss photographers, curators, publishers, schools and institutes will still be present in Arles, as they were before. The diversity and qualities they showcase will find their place once again. While there may not be one type of Swiss photography, there are undoubtedly common points to be found, going beyond Swiss rigor, singularity, the desire to go beyond first impressions and a need for dialogue… This need for dialogue happens between an exhibition and its viewers of course, but also between the photographer and his/her subjects. As host to many international organizations, from the UN to the Red Cross, NGOs, and think tanks of all kinds, Switzerland, and Geneva especially, is a place where exchanges between all is unavoidable and encouraged. Since 2015, Switzerland, along with the City and Canton of Geneva, have been partners of the Rencontres d’Arles. Why? Because dialogue is essential and takes time, the time for Rencontres.

87 LOUIS VUITTON DUPON-RC GROUP CITY GUIDE confirms its support for the Rencontres In their role as unique and influential trend spotters with an eye on the changing faces of the d’Arles world’s cities, the Louis Vuitton City Guides have Dupon, member of RC Group is the Parisian been exploring the most stylish cities for the past photographic laboratory, historical reference twenty years. The guide put 30 cities under the of the profession. It has developed a complicity microscope, offering unique insights into fashion, and a strong commitment with photographers design, contemporary art, food and culture. In Paris, and major players in photography. New York, London and Tokyo, a team of authors and guest contributors from a wide range of fields take For 30 years, RC Group has been concentrating readers on a highly personal tour, selecting the finest the skills of more than 400 employees in the hotels and restaurants, the most fashionable venues image professions, at the service of the biggest and the historical sites that no visitor should miss. luxury and fashion brands. The group designs the communication and promotion tools for To celebrate the 2021 Rencontres d’Arles photography the brands at the points of sale, both physical festival, the Louis Vuitton City Guide is alighting and digital. Its know-how is concentrated in Arles with a special edition that pays tribute around: POS, print, window displays,digital, to the Camargue city and its world‐famous festival. and promotional objects. Twenty companies Featuring original photography, the guide will be in France, Europe and Asia make up the group. on sale in bookstores, with a digital version available free from the App Store during the festival. Dupon-RC Group, in the logic of its commitment, decided in 2020 to become a full partner of the Éditions Louis Vuitton is a pioneering publisher Rencontres d'Arles. Despite the turbulence, it with a catalogue of some 100 titles. The different maintains its support and confirms it for the future. series center on travel, art and fashion, including city guides, books of drawings, photography books, art Dupon and its teams, backed by their expertise, books and literary works. Travel is also about the art will support the teams of the Rencontres to of fine living, and Éditions Louis Vuitton is setting contribute to the success of the 2021 edition. up a pop‐up bookstore at wine bar and delicatessen In particular, Dupon is supporting a flagship Le Buste et l’Oreille in Arles throughout the festival. exhibition for this year's edition: The New The venue will host a series of events, including signing Black Vanguard, a celebration of Black sessions with authors, artists, and photographers. creativity between art and fashion, a group Contact Éditions Louis Vuitton exhibition curated by Antwaun Sargent. Julien Guerrier +33 (0)1 55 80 38 75 [email protected] Cécile Dourmap, General Manager of Dupon, is supported by the teams of Dupon and RC Group with Didier Quilain, photographic project consultant.

88 CHAMMAS RIVEDROIT & MARCHETEAU AVOCATS Skills Sponsor in Skills Sponsor in Employment Law Intellectual Property Chammas & Marcheteau, an independent Since its founding, the firm Rivedroit Avocats multi-practice business law firm, is a conviction has taken an active role in supporting arts and and sustainable supporter of photography culture in all its forms. It has been providing and, more generally, artistic creation. professional legal advice to the festival since 2015. The firm counts enthusiastic photographers The firm’s art law team has gained recognition among its attorneys and has decided to support over the years for its practice of intellectual the Rencontres d'Arles by providing pro bono property law, especially in the field of legal support services and making available author’s rights and neighboring rights. to the organization the know-how of its lawyers. “We’re proud and honored to have been ABOUT CHAMMAS & MARCHETEAU supporting the festival now since 2015. The Rencontres d’Arles is among today’s key cultural Created more than 15 years ago in Paris, players in France and abroad,” says Nicolas Chammas & Marcheteau is a renowned law Maubert, founding partner of the firm. firm that counts some forty lawyers today. ABOUT RIVEDROIT A.A.R.P.I. The firm offers a wide range of expertise, including corporate (mergers and acquisitions, In 2009, lawyers from several major firms private equity, fund structuring, corporate founded Rivedroit Avocats, a flexible and law), tax law, labor law, insolvency law, new dynamic organization with a reputation for technology, personal data and intellectual distinction and commitment to clients. property law, and related dispute resolution. Accustomed to multicultural work environments, The firm advises a wide range of clients the firm’s lawyers develop close ties with their clients (entrepreneurs, investment funds, institutions and in France and abroad, helping them with all legal major groups) on domestic and international matters, aspects of their projects. Clients include French relying on the international experience of its partners and international corporations as well as SMEs. and a solid network of correspondent firms abroad. The multidisciplinary firm is principally active Partner in charge of partnership: in the following areas: mergers/acquisitions, Jean-François Rage + 33 (0)1 53 42 42 50 corporate law, foreign investment law, intellectual [email protected] property law – art law, real estate law, labor lcdm.law law and complex commercial disputes.

Partner in charge of the sponsorship: Nicolas Maubert + 33 (0)1 40 54 30 40 [email protected]

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89 TECTONA MALONGO COFFEE Outdoor furniture Since 1934, Malongo has sold individuals and businesses fine coffee grown by small producers using made for life traditional farming methods (hand-picked, high- altitude Arabica) in the world’s best producing areas. After its creation in 1977, Tectona rapidly established itself as the leading maker of outdoor furniture in From plantation to cup, Malongo lavishes France. The brand’s guiding principles were laid down care on its coffee, performs regular quality from the outset: a quest for obviousness and simplicity inspections and does slow, traditional roasting of forms; rigorous selection of materials; proficiency “in 20 minutes”. Respecting the earth and the in traditional techniques and modern technology. men who cultivate it is a fundamental value for the brand. That is why Malongo innovates for Tectona was a trailblazer in opening its doors sustainable development, organic agriculture and to designers in the 1990s. Inspiration by British fair trade, an area where it is France’s leader. chic of the early days gave way to new creations in sync with changing outdoor lifestyles. Since The brand is also committed to passing on then, the repertoire of forms has been enriched noble knowledge about coffee through its by attending to qualities such as lightness, ease training centers and corporate foundation. of use and optimization of spaces; at all times, the overarching criterion has been durability. The iconic “contemporary classic” style of Tectona furniture has revitalized the art of outdoor living Discreet and sober, it blends gracefully into natural spaces such as parks and gardens; elegant, it brings a human dimension to inorganic urban landscapes; welcoming, it lends itself to hours of idleness, at the seaside or poolside; generous, it reaffirms the joys of outdoor living, season after season. Open your senses to the spellbinding light of Provence: Tectona furniture, provided to the Rencontres d’Arles, invites visitors to slow down, relax, and absorb the marvelous encounters of this festival.

+33 (0)1 47 03 05 05 tectona.fr

90 ARTE Intimate and poetic portraits As an unfailing partner of the Rencontres de la Hervé Guibert, La Mort Propagande tells Guibert Photographie d'Arles, ARTE pays tribute this year with the images of Hervé Guibert. The film is an to Gisèle Freund and Hervé Guibert, two legends intimate portrait whose writing is based exclusively who have each left their mark on their time. on the writer-photographer's often unpublished photographs and contact prints, on super-8 films The documentary Gisèle Freund, An Intimate Portrait of childhood and the 14 hours of rushes of La Pudeur of a Visionary Photographer depicts the Franco- ou l'Impudeur, a transgressive testament film about German photographer, sociologist and writer. Gisèle his AIDS and the decay of his body. The film is a Freund fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and settled in Paris "Guibertian" hymn to love, body, sex and desire. where she became a pioneer in color photography and an unrivaled portraitist of international writers Directed by David Teboul, Production ARTE France, What's Up Films, 64mn, 2021. and artists. A rare woman who joined Magnum To be broadcast on ARTE on December 1st at 10:25 pm. Photos in it's founding, she was both a major player and a thinker in photography. In celebration of her professional and personal archives, the camera of the woman who was her friend explores her unpublished photographs, contact prints, reports and writings.

Directed by Teri Wehn Damisch, Production ARTE France, Complices Films, 52mn, 2021. To be broadcast on ARTE on July 4 at 5:05 pm.

Photograph by Hervé Guibert.

91 FRANCE INTER KONBINI As France’s leading radio station with around Konbini is a phenomenon that reaches an 7 million listeners per day, the largest morning- audience of over 27 million people a month in program audience, and millions of monthly France! Created in 2008 by Lucie Beudet and podcasts, France Inter fully embraces its role David Creuzot, it proved successful among the as a public, generalist radio station, uniting an youth, then grew to become the point of reference ever-growing public in a world of accelerating on pop culture, national and international individualism and social fragmentation. news, music, cinema, art, food and sports. More than a radio station, today France Present on every platform, from TikTok to Instagram, Inter is a hyper-radio at the center of a Snapchat, Youtube, Pinterest, and of course, Facebook, vigorous, multidimensional ecosystem. Konbini is for all ages. It’s for a youth involved in its future, committed to the planet, enthusiastic, and By going out to greet the most important events curious about the world. From Emmanuel Macron, in arts and culture, France Inter supports to Kendall Jenner, Catherine Deneuve, Adèle, Selena culture year-round. So naturally, this year, the Gomez and Amélie Nothomb, all the figures making station is once again backing the great festival headlines chose Konbini to express themselves. of photography that is the Rencontres d’Arles. With a novel approach to journalism and formats France Inter, festival radio, at 91.3 in Arles allowing creativity to serve content, today the growing Press contact: number of young users who share and comment on Marion Glémet +33 6 23 18 31 74 video and other media cite Konbini as “the base”. [email protected] Media partnerships contact: Simon Delpirou + 33 6 61 81 59 83 [email protected]

92 LCI LE POINT France's first 24-hour news channel, LCI has Le Point boasts over two million weekly readers as always followed major cultural events in France, well as a web readership of eleven million. Proud foremost among which is the Rencontres d’Arles. of backing the Rencontres d’Arles since 2007, it offers visitors to this magnificent event the “Rencontres This year, the TF1 Group's news network is guide”, specially written by its journalists. keener than ever to support the indispensable event for photography-lovers and professionals Since 2016, Le Point’s editorial team and the various in France and around the world. desks have led the spirited, open-to-the-public Rencontres/Le Point, offering a journalistic, cultural, Founded in 1994, LCI's editorial policy makes societal and geopolitical perspective every day on respectful, rigorous debate top priority. With major work by the photographers exhibiting at Arles. figures like Pascale de la Tour du Pin, Elizabeth Martichoux, David Pujadas, Pascal Perri, Arlette Le Point, which always backs, and sometimes Chabot and other established columnists, LCI anticipates, innovations, is also delighted to join puts key current events in politics, economics, forces with Les Ailleurs festival devoted to virtual society and culture into perspective through reality, even sitting on its prestigious jury. the many shades of opinion of its guests. For the 52th Rencontres d’Arles, Le Point will Today, LCI is a thriving brand, recognized on publish special issues all summer. They are available all media platforms, and its digital declination, with the weekly and on all its digital platforms. lci.fr, is among the top new sites in France. Public relations contact: Lola Wangler Media partnerships contact: +33 6 72 11 44 08 Anne Baurez [email protected] +33 1 41 41 45 62 [email protected]

93 ADAGP A photographer's vision is priceless. That doesn't mean he should work for free! Created in 1953 by artists, the ADAGP represents • To help increase the visibility of French artists nearly 200,000 artists from all over the world in abroad, the two annual Connexion grants financially all disciplines of visual arts: painting, sculpture, support French venues to carry out an international photography, architecture, design, comics, manga, co‑production project or the resumption abroad illustration, street art, digital creation, video art. of exhibitions of artists from the French scene. With a global network of nearly 50 sister societies, • Ekphrasis grants meet an artist's need for a the ADAGP manages all the property rights reference text to accompany a portfolio, application, held by artists (resale right, reproduction right, exhibition or publication. In association with right of public communication, collective rights) AICA France and the Quotidien de l’Art, these for all modes of use: books, media, advertising, annual grants allow 10 ADAGP artists to have merchandizing, exhibitions, auction and gallery a critical text published in the Quotidien de l’Art. sales, television, video on demand, websites, etc. Working alongside the Rencontres d’Arles for Through its cultural action program, the ADAGP more than 10 years, the ADAGP is present during supports the creative scene by initiating and/ the professional week to meet the photographers or supporting projects that highlight visual arts, and answer their questions. Free legal consultations promoting them nationally and internationally. within the Photo Folio Review, an information The ADAGP has set up several grants to support stand located cour Fanton, or even a group picture artists in key moments of their professional career: of the photographers and guest curators: the ADAGP is at the heart of photographic creation • Each year, the ADAGP Revelations support to defend the rights of photographers! the emergence of talents in fine arts, digital/ video art, urban art, comics, design, artist’s Become a member of ADAGP books, children’s books, photography. The and collect your royalties. laureates receive a grant and benefit from Contact: a video portrait available on Arte’s website. ADAGP 11, rue Duguay-Trouin, 75006 Paris • The ten annual Monographie Collection + 33 (0)1 43 59 09 79 [email protected] grants help fund the first monographic book of mid‑career ADAGP members. adagp.fr

94 SAIF To make the artist's voice heard Created in 1999, the Société des Auteurs des arts These uses generate additional revenues that visuels et de l’Image Fixe - Saif is the youngest are paid to artists’ by a collective management of authors' societies in France. Established organisation: Saif! by artists who wish to collectively defend their Saif can also manage artists’ individual rights, such rights, Saif is visual artists’ rights management as reproduction and public presentation rights. It can organisation whose mission is to defend, collect negotiate general agreements with broadcasters and distribute the rights of visual arts authors. (television, internet, etc.) on artists’ behalf and has It now has 8,000 authors in all the visual arts been approved by the Ministry of Culture to manage such as architects, designers, photographers, resale rights (payment on the public resale of original cartoonists, illustrators, graphic designers, painters, prints or works by auction houses and galleries). sculptors… including 5,500 photographers. Saif also plays an important role in the artistic Saif members benefit from collective rights. Legislation and cultural vitality in France through its cultural has set up the collective management of certain actions. 25% of the total amount of remuneration for rights because of the impossibility for an author private copiyng rights goes towards funding cultural alone to control the many uses that are made of his events in the public interest, for this raison Saif is work. There are currently four collective rights: proud to support Les Rencontres Arles for 13 years. • Private audiovisual and digital copies right: Since its creation, Saif has worked to defend created in 1985, this remuneration covers and protect authors’ intellectual property rights copying of a work intended for private use. and kept up an ongoing dialogue with broadcasters • Reprography rights: payment collected as well as national and international institutions for photocopies of works published (the Ministry of Culture, CSPLA, European in print media or books. Union, etc.) to make authors’ voices heard. • Cable broadcasting rights: payment Contact: SAIF collected for broadcasting television 82, rue de la Victoire, 75009 Paris programs on cable networks. + 33 (0)1 44 61 07 82 [email protected]

• Public lending rights: saif.fr payment for books lent by libraries.

95 AFRICA2020 SEASON By joining forces with the Africa2020 Season – dates in 2019, presents the exhibition Sibadala Sibancane for which have unfortunately been postponed – the by artist Lebogang Tlhako (South Africa), on the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles accepted to take materiality of memories and the passage of time. on the Season's main goal: inviting people in France Finally, in the exhibition Thawra! Revolution! to look at and understand the world from an African Sudan, History of an Uprising, curators Juliette Agnel perspective. (France) and Duha Mohammed (Sudan) offer the The three projects presented, from current events results of Sudanese photographers' shared visions on and memory to commitment and testimony, the revolution that swept their country, from the first demonstrate the diversity of approaches and aesthetics demonstrations in December 2018 to the sit-in that among African photographers. Through compelling took place from April-June, 2019. artistic proposals, in 2021, the Rencontres d’Arles Initiated by President Emmanuel Macron, the gives visibility to one of the world's main centers Africa2020 Season is a multidisciplinary pan-African of contemporary creation, the African continent, project, focusing on innovation in the arts, sciences, notably showcasing Sudan's photography scene, technology, entrepreneurship and the economy. seldom seen in France. Each of these photographers' Education will be a cross-cutting issue for the sharing projects, chosen by curators from Africa and its and transmission of knowledge. This unprecedented recent diaspora, focuses on one of Africa2020 Season will favour mobility, pay tribute to women, Season's themes: “Augmented Orality”, “Economy and and primarily target the youth. Fabulation”, “Archiving Imaginary Stories”, “Fiction Covid-19 required we postpone the Africa2020 Season. and (Un)authorized Movements” and “Systems Nevertheless, it is gratifying that the Rencontres of Disobedience.” d’Arles 2021 is offering artists and professionals from The monograph devoted to South African artist Pieter Africa the space they deserve, and I'd like to thank Hugo, focused on the portrait, illustrates the daily everyone who has helped to ensure their presence coexistence of worlds sometimes unaware of one in Arles this year. another, and our ambiguous relationship to difference. N’Goné Fall Fulufhelo Mobadi (South Africa), winner of the General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season French Institute's first curatorial research grant

Comité des mécènes de la Saison Africa 2020

96 INA IN ARLES An original work by Sébastien Lifshitz Created in 1975, the INA, a public audiovisual and digital company, collects, preserves and transmits France’s audiovisual heritage. The institute is the repository of 20 million hours of radio and television. As a content producer, the institute supports many editorial and creative approaches, but all of them take a unique look at the common heritage that is the audiovisual archives. Our meeting with Sébastien Lifshitz, his committed approach to our archives and his desire to work on the motif (the comparison, compilation, contradiction and mirror games of images) convinced us to produce Sensitive Boys. The film illustrates INA's strong desire to support authors in their reflection and creation around the image. This year, INA is again a partner of the Rencontres d'Arles. The project we imagined together for this edition grew out of our long, close relationship.

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