This year more than ever the Rencontres d'Arles deserves to be called a Festival. In 2003 just about every exhibition is an event in its own right. Arles this year will be welcoming a rarely equalled accumulation of sheer talent. The scope and variety of a programme so harmoniously adapted to the architecture of Arles will enable photography professionals to enrich the informal seminar represented by the Rencontres' opening week; and the artists present will provide the public with an near-infinite gamut of photographic possibilities and sensitivities. This year more than ever the Rencontres d'Arles deserves to be called a Festival. In 2003 just about every exhibition is an event in its own right. Arles this year will be welcoming a rarely equalled accumulation of sheer talent. The scope and variety of a programme so harmoniously adapted to the architecture of Arles will enable photography professionals to enrich the informal seminar represented by the Rencontres' opening week; and the artists present will provide the public with an near-infinite gamut of photographic possibilities and sensitivities.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
FRANÇOIS HÉBEL 

GENERAL ADMINISTRATOR 
ALAIN ARNAUDET


PRESIDENT
FRANÇOIS BARRÉ  


RENCONTRES D’ARLES AWARDS

EDITION ASSISTANCE AWARD (Dakota Group): A Personal Diary of Chinese Avant-garde in the 1990s by Xing Danwen
PROJECT ASSISTANCE AWARD (Dakota Group): Jitka Hanzlová
DISCOVERY AWARD(Dakota Group): Ziyah Gafić
OUTREACH AWARD(Dakota Group): Fazal Sheikh
BOOK AWARDS (Dakota Group): Hide That Can by Deirdre O’Callaghan (Trolley Publishers)
PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YEAR AWARD: Anders Petersen
NO LIMIT AWARD (Dakota Group): Thomas Demand