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Rencontres d’Arles 2025: an invitation to Disobedient Images

From 7 July to 5 October 2025, the Provençal city of Arles will once again become the world capital of photography with the 56th edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles. Under the theme “Disobedient Images”, the festival offers more than forty exhibitions spread across Romanesque chapels, former factories and other heritage sites that converse with today’s photographic creation.

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Rencontres d’Arles 2025: an invitation to “Disobedient Images”

From 7 July to 5 October 2025, the Provençal city of Arles will once again become the world capital of photography with the 56th edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles. Under the theme “Disobedient Images”, the festival offers more than forty exhibitions spread across Romanesque chapels, former factories and other heritage sites that converse with today’s photographic creation.

A theme that challenges the gaze

Artistic director Christoph Wiesner presents the image as a tool of resistance and cultural exchange, inspired by the thinking of Édouard Glissant. The programme unfolds in six broad chapters exploring memory, territory, family, archival re-readings and architecture, always from critical and diverse perspectives.

Brazil and Australia as guest countries

Within the “Contre-voix” chapter, the festival gives unprecedented prominence to two regions:

  • Brazil — The collective show “Futurs ancestraux” re-examines colonial archives through Afro-Brazilian, Indigenous and LGBTQIA+ voices. Highlights include Retratistas do Morro, the rescue of 250,000 negatives from a Belo Horizonte photo club, and a major retrospective of Claudia Andujar centred on the Yanomami people.

  • Australia — The ambitious project “On Country: Photography from Australia” brings together twenty Aboriginal and non-Indigenous artists — among them Ricky Maynard, Brenda L Croft and Atong Atem — to explore spiritual relationships with the land and question colonial views of the landscape.

Other 2025 must-sees

  • “Yves Saint Laurent and Photography”: dialogue between haute couture and the image.

  • Letizia Battaglia. I Have Always Searched for Life: the social struggle of the great Sicilian photographer.

  • “The World of Louis Stettner”: 150 works linking New York street life with European poetry.

Beyond the exhibition halls

The Opening Week (7–13 July) will feature guided tours, book signings and artist talks. Running alongside is the Arles Books fair, bringing together independent publishers and specialist booksellers and extending the festival atmosphere throughout the city.

Why you shouldn’t miss Arles 2025

  • Real diversity: Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, queer, historical and emerging voices share the same programme.

  • Unique venues: viewing photography in a twelfth-century cloister or a former mechanical workshop creates an unforgettable experience.

  • Debate and learning: workshops, portfolio reviews and talks that connect professionals and the general public.

Pack your camera (or simply your eyes) and let yourself be moved by these disobedient images that invite us to question, dream and build new visual narratives. See you in Arles!

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