Eight exhibitions from Rencontres d’Arles 2019. Every year, exhibitions shown during the summer at Rencontres d’Arles travel to China in the fall:

First Show, First Works by Lucien Clergue (France) & Edward Weston (USA);

Mothers, Daughters, Sisters by Tom Wood (UK);

The Living, The Dead, and Those at Sea by Evangelia Kranioti (Greece);

Datazone by Philippe Chancel (France);

The Saga of Inventions (France);

The House by The Anonymous Project (France – UK); Kontakt by Maté Bartha (Hungary), winner of the 2019 Louis Roederer Discovery Award;

2019 Arles Book Awards

Two “China Pulse” exhibitions: This section aims at taking the pulse of current trends in Chinese photography

Youth by Luo Yang (curated by Bérénice Angremy and Victoria Jonathan);

Still Lake by Liu Ke (curated by Bérénice Angremy and Victoria Jonathan)

Three “Crossover Photography” exhibitions.Curators are invited to show the possibilities of photography on different media (painting, print, video, digital, painting, objects…) and in crossing cultural contexts:

What’s up Siri boy! (curated by Li Yuanyuan & Yang Zhiqian) with works by Josfin Arnell, Chen Zhou, Kate Durbin, Feng Chen, Faith Holland, Yang Zhiqian, Ye Linghan;

In&Out-put by Xue Ruozhe (curated by Cao Yani), Romance in Lushan Cinema by 2018 Jimei x Arles Discovery Award winner Lei Lei (curated by Bérénice Angremy and Victoria Jonathan)

“Local Action”: this section typically explores the links between photography and the local environment of the festival :

The Chinese Gesture (curated by Jean Loh) by Magnum member Guy Le Guerrec

Two “Greetings from India” exhibitions: Every year, Jimei x Arles focuses on the photographic scene of an Asian country :

Catalyst, a group exhibition curated by Rahaab Allana (in partnership with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts);

Returning the Gaze: from the Colonial to the Contemporary (curated by Nathaniel Gaskell, in partnership withthe Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Bangalore) with works by artists Indu Antony, Anoli Perera, Gauri Gill, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Michael Bühler-Rose, Pushpamala N. & Clare Arni. 

“Collector’s Tale”: A yearly program which shows a prominent Chinese photography collector’s treasures, Collector’s Tale is expanding to Asia :

Romantic Melancholy (curated by Son Youngjoo and Kim Sunyoung) with works by photo masters Brassaï, Josef Koudelka and Mario Giacomelli.

“Project Room” : A program which invites one photographer whose work pushes the boundaries of photo format or creates new forms of photo objects : 

Why is our memory always black and white? by Li Qiang (curated by Feng Boyi)

10 Jimei × Arles Discovery Award nominees: Ten talents of Chinese photography selected by five curators:

The winner of the Jimei × Arles Discovery Award is awarded a 200,000 RMB prize and an exhibition in the following year’s edition of Rencontres d’Arles.

2019 nominees: Fan Xi (1984), Liu Yu (1985), Miss Screenaholic (1983), Peng Ke (1992), Sun Datang (1982), Tang Jing (1989), Wu Ding (1982), Yan Yibo (1980), Yi Lian (1987), Zhang Wenxin (1989).

This year will also hold the third Jimei x Arles Women Photographers Award, the first ever photo award in China dedicated to women photographers. The 2019 nominees are: Fan Xi (1984), Liu Yu (1985), Lin Ran(1981), Luo Yang (1984), Miss Screenaholic (1983), Peng Ke (1992), Yang Zhiqian (1993), Zhang Wenxin (1989).