OPENING SPEECH OF THE 55TH EDITION OF THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES
Conference
Official opening of the Rencontres d’Arles 2024.
Cour Fanton
2 July
UTOPIAS / DYSTOPIAS
Les Rencontres/Le Point
Led by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot (Le Point).
With photographers Debi Cornwall (Model Citizens), Stephen Dock (Echoes) and Bruce Eesly (New Farmer).
Cour Fanton
2 July
EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES: WOMEN AT THE HEART OF JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY
Rencontre The Eyes Talks
The Eyes Talks led by Marc Feustel, author and independent curator.
With photographers Sugiura Kunié (I’m So Happy You Are Here), Suzuki Mayumi (Transcendence / Reflection 11/03/11) and Tawada Yuki (I’m So Happy You Are Here).
Cour Fanton
2 July
GAZE TALK: MEMORY AS A GOAL
Round table
A conversation about memory led by Clarence Edgard-Rosa, editor-in-chief of Gaze, the magazine of female perspectives.
With Yasmine Chemali, curator of the exhibition Comrade Sisters: women of the black panther party, photographers Randa Mirza (Beirotupia) and Laurent Montaron (To Tell a Story).
Whether collective or very intimate, the stories told in photography escape oblivion: they can then be passed on or even become part of History with a capital H.
Cour Fanton
3 July
PHOTOGRAPHIC QUESTS
Les Rencontres/Le Point
Led by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot (Le Point).
With photographers Mustapha Azeroual (The Green Ray), Nicolas Floc’h (Rivers Ocean, the landscape of Mississippi’s Colors), the sailor Loïck Peyron and Holly Roussell, curator of the exhibition Me in my landscape.
Cour Fanton
3 July
PHOTOGRAPHY: A POLITICAL MANIFESTO TOOL
Rencontre The Eyes Talks
The Eyes Talks led by Véronique Prugnaud, associate director of The Eyes.
With photographers Randa Mirza (Beirutopia), Stephen Shames (Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party) and Ericka Huggins, activist.
Cour Fanton
3 July
THE DYNAMICS OF COLLECTIVE COMMITMENT BY PROFESSIONALS IN THE PHOTOGRAPHY SECTOR
Round table
Led by Marie-Anne Ferry-Fall, director of ADAGP.
With Matthieu Baudeau, UPP President, Pierre Ciot, photographer and president of the SAIF, Sylvie Hugues, president of the Lux network and director of the Festival du Regard, Ericka Negrel, director of the Réseau Diagonal and Sabrina Ponti, co-president of the Filles de la Photo, cofounder of the États généraux de la Photographie and photographer’s agent.
Cour Fanton
3 July
PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS: INDEXING, HOW AND WHY?
Round table
Moderated by Marion Hislen, head of the ADAGP Support Fund. With Sylvain Besson, director of collections at Musée Nicéphore Niépce, photographer Nicolas Floc'h (Rivers Ocean, landscapes of the Mississippi's Colors), Audrey Hoareau, director of CRP/Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France, curator of the exhibition Echoes and Félicie de Maupeou, art history researcher at Université Paris Nanterre, in charge of digital development at Iconos Photo.
Cour Fanton
4 July
DOCUMENTING INTIMACY
Les Rencontres/Le Point
Led by Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot (Le Point).
With photographers Libuše Jarcovjáková, Karen Lamassonne (Vampires fear no looking glass) and Vasantha Yogananthan (Time Frames).
Cour Fanton
4 July
IMAGE: LABORATORY OF A PLANET IN TURMOIL
Rencontre The Eyes Talks
The Eyes Talks led by Vincent Marcilhacy, associate director of The Eyes.
With photographers Mustapha Azeroual (The Green Ray), Nicolas Floc’h (Rivers Ocean, the landscape of Mississippi’s Colors) and Marine Lanier (Hannibal’s Garden).
Cour Fanton
4 July
VISIT FROM THE JURY OF THE 2024 DISCOVERY AWARD LOUIS ROEDERER FOUNDATION
Cour Fanton
4 July
ROUND TABLE REFLECTION - 11/03/11
JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS FACING THE CATACLYSM
Round table
Led by Nathalie Chapuis, editor of the publication with EXB.
With photographers Arai Takashi (Reflection – 11/03/11), Kazuma Obara (Reflection – 11/03/11), Suzuki Mayumi (Reflection – 11/03/11 / Transcendence) and Philippe Séclier and Marina Amada curators of the exhibition Reflection – 11/03/11.
Cour Fanton
4 July
CREATIVITY AND AUTHENTICITY IN PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE IA
Round table
Led by SAIF president Pierre Ciot. With Anne-Lou Buzot, photographer and teacher in photochemical processes at ENS Louis-Lumière; artist Nelly Maurel (I hate travels and explorers), Florence Moll, director of the agency FMA le Bureau and Antonio Somaini, professor of film studies, visual studies and media theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Cour Fanton
4 July
AUCTION
Auction
Once again, the Yann le Mouël expertise firm, the Lumière des roses gallery and Charlotte Barthélémy, will be hosted by the Rencontres d’Arles for a festive auction in the shade of hotel Fanton’s plane-trees. The selection, mainly vintage prints, highlights anonymous photographers but also great names.
Cour Fanton
5 July
MIGRATIONS AND ODYSSEYS
Les Rencontres/Le Point
Led by Baudouin Eschapasse (Le Point).
With photographers Lahem (Modernity’s fracture: the odyssey of returning hometown), Cristina De Middel (Journey to the Center), Paribartana Mohanty (Fate’s brief memoir) and Rajesh Vora (Everyday Baroque).
Cour Fanton
5 July
FRANCE CULTURE MASTER CLASS
Recording
France Culture’s master classes are a series of major interviews of reference about creation.
Hosted by Caroline Broué, producer at France Culture and recorded in public with director, performer and actress Vimala Pons, attending the Rencontres d’Arles this year with the exhibition Heaven and Hell in collaboration with Nhu Xuan Hua.
Cour Fanton
5 July
LES MIDIS DE CULTURE
Enregistrement en direct et en public
The Midis de Culture, France Culture’s summer culture magazine, hosted by Chloë Cambreling producer at France Culture. A programme live and public with photographers Nicolas Floc'h (Rivers Ocean, the landscape of Mississippi’s colors) and Marine Lanier (Hannibal's Garden).
Cour Fanton
5 July
ŒIL POUR ŒIL
Round table
With photographers Charlotte Abramow and Matthieu Gafsou; Alice Rougeulle, in charge of the artistic and cultural transmission at the Institut pour la Photographie des Hauts-de-France and Fabrice Courthial from the Education and Formation department of the Rencontres d’Arles.
Cour Fanton
6 July
URBANISM AND COUNTERCULTURE
Les Rencontres/Le Point
Led by Baudouin Eschapasse (Le Point).
With Randa Mirza, photographer (Beirutopia), Hugo Vitrani, curator of the exhibition All in the name of the name and Maria Wills, curator of the exhibition Vampires fear no looking glass.
Cour Fanton
6 July
FUNCTION AND FORM OF THE IMAGE, WHETHER OR NOT IT SERVES THE NARRATIVE
Rencontre The Eyes Talks
The Eyes Talks led by Vincent Marcilhacy, associate director of The Eyes.
With photographers François Bellabas (An Electronic Legacy), Alassan Diawara (Sedimentary partitions), Marilou Poncin (Liquid Love is Full of Ghosts) and Matthieu Nicol, curator of the exhibition Fashion Army.
Cour Fanton
6 July
Body at stake
Round table
Led by Charlotte Pudlowski, journalist, writer, co-founder of Louie Média.
With Nathalie Herschdorfer, curator of the exhibition Sport in focus, Sonia Voss, curator of the exhibition Ama and Romy Wyche, curator of the exhibition Triptyque and director of the Musée du Arles Antique.
Cour Fanton
6 July
BEYOND PARITY
Round table
Led by Sarah Nasla, member of Contemporaines.
With Florent Basiletti and Juliette Larochette, founders of La Kabine centre de l’image and new ( ) F F festival, photographer Nanténé Traoré (L’inquiétude) and Christoph Wiesner, director of Rencontres d’Arles.
Cour Fanton
7 July
COFFEE FOR THE CLOSING OF THE OPENING WEEK
Meeting
Cour Fanton
8 July - 25 August
CITY CENTER/FANTON TOUR
Guided exhibition tours
Includes three of the following exhibitions: Cristina De Middel, Nicolas Floc’h, Mary Ellen Mark, I’m So Happy You Are Here, Reflection – 11/03/11.