Departure for the 49th Rencontres d'Arles is imminent. This year, you are invited to cross space and time with a breathtaking, celestial journey across the ages. Photography is often the best-placed medium for registering all the shocks that remind us the world is changing, sometimes right before our eyes. An arts program is an excellent time machine-a constellation of exhibitions, intersecting, interacting and occasionally colliding. With the artist's eye as our aid, and the recent past as our measuring stick, we can discover the near future, and shed some light on the big questions of society today.

DIRECTOR
SAM STOURDZÉ

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
AURÉLIE DE LANLAY


PRESIDENT
HUBERT VÉDRINE


RENCONTRES D’ARLES AWARDS

NEW DISCOVERY AWARD (LOUIS ROEDERER AND POLKA FOUNDATION) 
JURY AWARD: La défense, the venturing gaze by Paulien Oltheten presented by the gallery Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris.
PUBLIC AWARD: Sparks, Wiktoria Wojciechowska presented by Galerie Confluence, Nantes.

BOOK AWARDS
AUTHOR’S BOOK AWARD: Photographic Treatment by Laurence Aëgerter (Dewi Lewis),
Mention to The Iceberg by Giorgio Di Noto (Patrick Frey).
HISTORICAL BOOK AWARD: The Pigeon Photographer by Julius Neubronner (Rorhof). 
PHOTO–TEXT BOOK AWARD: War Primer 2 by Adam Bromberg and Olivier Chanarin (Mack). 

LUMA RENCONTRES ARLES DUMMY BOOK AWARD
Phénomènes by Marina Gadonneix,
Mention to State of shame by Indré Urbonaité.

MADAME FIGARO ARLES PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
Wiktoria Wojciechowska