Hailing from Arles, Lucien Clergue began his career at an early age. Meeting Picasso and Cocteau led to numerous collaborations and opened doors for him. As early as 1957, he published his first book: Corps Mémorables. In 1961, he exhibited at the New York MoMA. In 1969, alongside Jean-Maurice Rouquette and Michel Tournier, he established the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles. With around a hundred prints, shown at the three main exhibition venues of Toulon, Lucien Clergue, the Mediterranean offers a new perspective on the work of the first photographer to be admitted to the Institut de France in 2006. It’s an opportunity to enter into the artist’s world and decode his black and white poetic language through the lens of his connection to the Mediterranean region.