Tutti ad Arles, in Francia, per il più importante festival europeo dedicato alla fotografia. Les Rencontres d’Arles 2018 torna infatti fino al 23 settembre con 30 mostre di artisti emergenti e affermati con mostre ed eventi (workshop, talk, performance, portfolio review, presentazioni editoriali) concentrati anche nella settimana inaugurale che si sta svolgendo ora e proseguirà fino all’8 luglio.
Il festival, fondato nel 1970 dal fotografo di Arles Lucien Clergue, dallo scrittore Michel Tournier e dallo storico Jean-Maurice Rouquette, è oggi alla sua 49esima edizione e per questo 2018 il festival sarà dedicato al tema Back to the Future per un viaggio attraverso lo spazio e il tempo.
Les Rencontres d'Arles 2018
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Laura Henno, Revon and Michael, Slab City (USA), 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire.

Laura Henno, Ethan, Slab City (USA), 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire.

Paul Graham, 8th Avenue & 42nd Street, 17th August 2010, 11.23.03 am,
from the The Present series, 2010.
Courtesy of the Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin;
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.

Paul Graham, New Orleans, from the a shimmer of possibility series, 2003-2006.
Courtesy of the Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin;
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.

Poster by the People’s Studio at the School of Fine Arts (1968, What a Story! exhibition). Michel Dixmier Collection. Courtesy of Michel Dixmier and Kharbine-Tapabor

Marcelo Brodsky, Paris, 1968. 1968 series: The Fire of Ideas (1968, What a Story! exhibition). Courtesy of the artist, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York & Rolf Art Gallery, Buenos Aires

May 6, 1968 demonstration. Articles on the students’ barricades (1968, What a Story! exhibition). Memory and Cultural Affairs Department. Courtesy of the Paris Prefecture of Police

Taysir Batniji, Yasmine Batniji, Newport Coast (California), from the Adam series, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and the Sfeir-Semler gallery Beirut/Hamburg.

Taysir Batniji, from the Fathers series, 2006. Courtesy of the artist and the Sfeir-Semler gallery Beirut/Hamburg

Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos, Untitled, from the series RFK Funeral Train, 1968. Courtesy of the Danziger Gallery

Stephanie Sansone Lang, Baltimore, Maryland, 1968, from Rein Jelle Terpstra’s The People’s View (2014-2018). Courtesy of Stephanie Sansone Lang

Cristina de Middel & Bruno Morais, Untitled from the Midnight at the Crossroads series, Brasil, 2016. Courtesy of the artists

Cristina de Middel & Bruno Morais, Untitled from the Midnight at the Crossroads series, Benin, 2016. Courtesy of the artists

Jonas Bendiksen, Moses Hlongwane, otherwise known simply as Jesus, giving a sermon during his wedding to Angel, one of his disciples. In Moses' theology, his wedding day was the start of the End of Days. South Africa, 2016. Courtesy of Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos

Jonas Bendiksen, INRI Cristo is wheeled around their compound on a rolling pedestal. INRI are the initials that Pontius Pilate had written on top of Jesus' cross, meaning Jesus Christ, King of the Jews. Brazil, 2014. Courtesy of Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos

Çağdaş Erdoğan, from the Control series, 2015-2016 (A Pillar of Smoke exhibition). Courtesy of the artist

Sinem Dişli, Sand in a Whirlwind, 2015.
Dams over the Euphrates have led to inequality in water distribution among Syria, Iraq and Turkey, and the senseless use of water and soil in Urfa caused desertification in the region beyond the southern border of Turkey. The Sudden and extreme enrichment that came with the dam at the side of Urfa, the changes that are characterized as economic development are transforming the overirrigated and overcultivated plains with sandstorms that now and then comes from the desertified regions of the Middle East that are condemned to drought, and remind us that nature is a whole without borders (A Pillar of Smoke exhibition).
Courtesy of the artist