In 2015, Kering started the Women In Motion program, which four years later teamed up with the Rencontres d’Arles to highlight the work of women in photography. In Arles, the two partners launched the Women In Motion Award, which celebrates the career of a remarkable woman photographer each year. The prize includes the acquisition of €25,000 worth of her works for the Rencontres d’Arles collection. In 2019, American photographer Susan Meiselas received the award.

THE 2020 WOMEN IN MOTION AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO SABINE WEISS

Since its creation, the Rencontres d’Arles has promoted photography and all its stakeholders. In response to our call for projects, we received 200 applications, 10 of which made the shortlist. Then a jury will choose the Louis Roederer Discovery Award’s winner. The €5,000 prize is used to purchase the project from the winning artist and his or her gallery. In a spirit of fairness because of this special year, there will be no Public Award but a €15,000 prize to be shared between the artists and the galleries presenting the nominated projects.

ELEVEN YOUNG ARTISTS PRESENTED BY THEIR GALLERIES

POULOMI BASU / NEW ART EXCHANGE & AUTOGRAPH
PHILIPPE BRAQUENIER / THE RAVESTIJN GALLERY
STEPHEN DOCK / DELPIRE & Co
ELSA & JOHANNA / LA FOREST DIVONNE
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER GBRÉ / GALERIE CÉCILE FAKHOURY
DOR GUEZ / DVIR GALLERY
AMÉLIE LABOURDETTE / GALERIE THIERRY BIGAIGNON
ALICE MICELI / GALERIA NARA ROESLER
DAVIDE MONTELEONE / HEILLANDI GALLERY
DEANNA PIZZITELLI / STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY

Two winners tied for the first place have won the Louis Roederer Discovery Award Jury Prize, consisting of an acquisition.

POULOMI BASU for Centralia, presented by New Art Exchange, Nottingham, United Kingdom & Autograph, London, United Kingdom.

FRANÇOIS-XAVIER GBRÉ for Emergence, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2013 — 2020 presented by the gallery Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast / Dakar, Senegal / Paris, France.


With support from the Louis Roederer Foundation and Polka.

AUTHOR’S BOOK AWARD/HISTORICAL BOOK AWARD/PHOTO-TEXT BOOK AWARD

These awards honor the best photography books published between June 1, 2019 and May 31, 2020.

PHOTO-TEXT BOOK AWARD 2020
This prize is for the best book where words and photographs go together.

WINNER
ZANJIR
AMAK MAHMOODIAN
RRB PUBLISHERS

SPECIAL MENTION
LEOPOLD’S LEGACY
OLIVER LEU
THE ERISKAY CONNECTION


HISTORICAL BOOK AWARD 2020
This prize is for the best documented work, thematic or monographic, on photography or a photographer.
 
WINNER
SEGNI MIGRANTI
MARIO CRESCI
POSTCART EDIZIONI


AUTHOR BOOK AWARD 2020
This prize is for the best book presenting a project by a contemporary photographer.

WINNER
FLOWER SMUGGLER
DIANA TAMANE / MARTIN GERMANN
ART PAPER EDITIONS

SPECIAL MENTION
THE COMMUNITY
ELI DURST
MOREL BOOKS

Main partner of the Book Awards: Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’écriture et la littérature.

This award is open to all photographers and professional artists using photography on proposition of a dummy book that has never been published.
 
The winners of the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2020 are
YTO BARRADA & BETTINA for BETTINA.

Special Mention to KOURTNEY ROY for THE OTHER END OF THE RAINBOW.

With support from the Luma Foundation

WAYS OF SEEING ALGORITHMICALLY, JOHN BERGER RELOADED
The ninth BMW artist-in-residence, Lewis Bush, will be celebrated with a reflection on contemporary images and artificial intelligence in dialogue with the thought of John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing, which became a BBC documentary in the 1970s.

The Rencontres d'Arles is a summer photography festival founded in 1970, which has learned a world-wide reputation as a springboard for photographic and contemporary creative talents. The exhibitions are given on various heritage sites, suitably stage-designed for the purpose.

The Rencontres d’Arles, which has been holding some forty photo exhibitions around town every summer for nearly fifty years now, has established itself as an observatory of current creation and photographic practice.

- The photographers and artists present at the Rencontres d'Arles.
- Artistic directors and curators, historians and schools, collectors and collections, institutions, agencies, galleries, foundations, publishers, magazines and journals, authors and musicians.
- Festival Awards and prizes awarded during the festival.
- Artistic and administrative directors, presidents of the Rencontres, mayors of Arles and directors of the ENP / ENSP.

The Rencontres d’Arles offers digital platforms that extend the festival experience.

Two- to three-month courses will be added to the program as the year goes by. In February, Jane Evelyn Atwood and Yann Rabanier will start teaching two different 10-week online courses. Other photographers will teach courses in May-June and November-December.

A dense workshop program will take place in spring, from 12 april  to 21 may 2021.

Professional photographers share their experience, tips and personalized advice with participants to help them improve their technical or aesthetic skills.