ARLES BOOKS FAIR 2024
WITH FRANCE PHOTOBOOK

COLLÈGE SAINT-CHARLES
ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE D’ARLES
JULY 2 — 6

At the invitation of the Rencontres d’Arles, France PhotoBook is co-organizing the third edition of Arles Books Fair, at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie and the Collège Saint-Charles. Dedicated to the richness and variety of publishing practices, this event will be punctuated by a program of meetings with photographers and authors. Arles Books Fair will bring together over seventy international publishing houses.

FRANCE PHOTOBOOK
France PhotoBook federates the main independent French publishing houses of photography books. Supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the association currently brings together 29 publishing houses, united to defend creative publishing and to ensure that photography books are recognized as a publishing field in their own right.

Practical information
Arles Books Fair 2024 is open from Tuesday 2nd to Saturday 6th July, from 1pm to 7.30pm.


Events

ARLES BOOKS FAIR LAUNCHING 
Opening speech at 5pm at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Photographie (ENSP).

Book signings
Authors and photographers will sign their books at the ENSP and Collège Saint-Charles Tuesday July 2 through Saturday July 6 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

Round tables
Auditorium, École nationale supérieure de la photographie (ENSP)


Friday July 5 – 1:30 pm
A look at the living world
Moderator: Frédéric Martin
With: Sandrine Cnudde, Matthieu Gafsou, Line Bøhmer Løkken, Véronique Prugnaud 
French-speaking talk
 
Friday July 5 – 4:00 pm
Artist and publisher: dialogue above all
Moderator: Jean-Baptiste Gauvin
With: David Fourré, Anastasia Leonova, Mark Pearson, Francesca Todde 
English-speaking talk

Saturday July 6 – 2:00 pm
Photography publishing in art schools
Moderator: Éric Le Brun
With: Raphaële Bertho, Pierre Gaudin,
Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié, Véronique Souben,
French-speaking talk

Saturday July 6 – 4:00 pm
Dummy book awards
A stepping stone from experimentation to the making of a photobook 
Mediation : Andrea Copetti
With: Arash Fayez, Margot Jourquin, Frederic Lezmi, Janne Riikonen, lauréat/winner LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award (subject to availability)
English-speaking talk

Talks under the hackberry tree
Cour Collège Saint-Charles
Wednesday July 3 – 4:00 pm
Martin Parr and his books
A conversation with Clémentine de la Féronnière
English-speaking talk
 
Tuesday July 4– 4:00 pm
When only memories, tombstones and forests remain, or how to talk about death in a photobook
Moderator: Grzegorz Kosmala
With : Yann Castanier, Christine Delory-Momberger,  Hubert Humka, Lia Pradal 
English-speaking talk
 
Friday July 5 – 16:00
From plants to algae, photography and ecology
Moderator: Frédéric Martin
With: Patrice Dion, Alice Pallot
French-speaking talk

Saturday July 6 – 16:00
Moving the lines of documentary narrative
Moderator: Fabienne Pavia
With : Sylvie Bonnot, Randa Mirza
French-speaking talk

2024 participants

aka Tawla,André Frère Éditions, Arnaud Bizalion Éditeur, Atelier EXB, AVARIE, Blankt Papir Press, BLOW UP PRESS, BOOK AND SONS, Camera Austria, Carmencita Editions, Cé éditions, Ciao Press, Contrejour, Créaphis Éditions, Départ Pour l'Image, dienacht Publishing, Dummy Award by The PhotoBookMuseum, Ediciones Anómalas, Ediciones Posibles, Éditions Bessard, Éditions d'une rive à l'autre, Éditions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Éditions du Caïd, Éditions lamaindonne, Éditions Light Motiv, Éditions Païen, Éditions Révolues, Editorial RM, ESSARTER Éditions, Fall Line Press, Filigranes Éditions, FotoEvidence, FOTOHOF edition, Fraglich Publishing, Giostre Edizioni, GOST, Grani edizioni, Hopper&Fuchs, IIKKI, Images Plurielles, ist publishing, KABK / Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Kerber Verlag, Kult Books, Kultkom, KWY Ediciones, L'Artiere, La Maison de Z, Labor Neunzehn, Le Bec en l'air, LeMégot éditions, Leporello photobooks et al., Les éditions de Juillet, Les petites allées, Libro Arte, LIKE la revue, Lithuanian Photographers Association, Loco, Macula, Milda Books, Multipress, Origini, Poetry Wanted, Reflektor, Revelatœr, Spector Books, The Angry Bat, The eyes, the(M) éditions, This Book is True, Tipi Bookshop, Uncertain States Scandinavia, VOID, Witty Books, XYZ Books, Yogurt Editions, Zen Foto Gallery, Zoème

Main partner: Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature

  • Institutional partners

    • République Française
    • Région Provence Alpes Côté d'Azur
    • Département des Bouches du Rhône
    • Arles
    • Le Centre des monuments nationaux est heureux de soutenir les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles en accueillant des expositions dans l’abbaye de Montmajour
  • Main partners

    • Fondation LUMA
    • BMW
    • SNCF
    • Kering
  • Media partners

    • Arte
    • Lci
    • Konbini
    • Le Point
    • Madame Figaro
    • France Culture