Royal horse guard, England, 2004. Charles Fréger
A sneak preview of images from the Arles photo festival. The Rencontres d'Arles takes place annually in the south of France when the town of Arles becomes host to dozens of photography exhibitions as well as workshops, seminars, live music and film screenings.
Awards are given to new talent in photography and the best books published in the previous year. Additionally, every other year a guest curator takes on several of the festivals major exhibition spaces. Following Martin Parr, this year's curator is fashion designer Christian Lacroix. It is the first time that the guest curator has not been a photographer, but Lacroix is known to have a lifelong passion for photography, a fact I can attest to having met the designer a year ago at Hyeres.
Photographers he has chosen for the festival include some of the big names in fashion photography, such as Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh, and The Sartorialist, but Lacroix has also selected the work of new photographers who deal with social, political, and conceptual ideas, as well as vernacular photography and archival photographs relating to the town's history.
For those eager to jump on a plane, the festival runs from July 8 to September 14, but the real action starts tonight.
Karen Elson, "English Sunbathing" Northumberland, England, 2001. Tim Walker
Vanités - Allégorie de la caducité, 2007. Guido Mocafico
The most beautiful day of my life. Jean Christian Bourcart
Emma Cruch, known as Cora Pearl. A.A.E. Disdéri, c. 1860
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