A big party opens the 50th Rencontres d’Arles with projections, Middle Eastern music, stands and photographic inventions to celebrate the festival’s jubilee.
Free admission
Bars and food onsite.

Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles are giving Susan Meiselas the first Women In Motion Award for photography. Tonight, she tells the story of her life in images.

Intimate festival venues host special times with authors. Readings/performances echo the exhibitions.
With Kaouther Adimi, Éric Reinhardt and Adrien Bosc.

Four authors choose eight songs and several images from the Rencontres d’Arles photo collection. They’ll have a few hours to imagine eight stories about the festival’s hidden history. On the night of the dance at Croisière, transformed into a dance hall for the occasion, they perform the texts they wrote and ask the public to dance with them.
With Emmanuelle Destremau, Samuel Gallet, Arno Bertina and Laura Tirandaz.

L'auteur-compositeur et interprète Gaëtan Roussel (Louise Attaque, Tarmac, Lady Sir) offre une expérience unique et singulière où il revisite en musique la programmation du festival.

Opening week’s unmissable festive event offers a photographic stroll to see some 40 proposals projected in loops on three big screens and two installations. This great celebration of photography mixes concert, food trucks, bars and DJ sets, free admission.

To celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary, 10 people—star photographers, taciturn authors, unexpected celebrities—will take the stage of the Théâtre Antique to talk about a love affair, a broken dream, an unusual investigation or an unforgettable meeting in images, sounds or the spoken word. Experience it live, and only live, on a summer night.

Luma Arles, in collaboration with Les Suds, Arles, hosts the last hours of opening week of the 50th Rencontres d'Arles under the stars and with music.