HP : Official partner of the Rencontres d’Arles 2005

Back in Arles for the second successive year, HP will be at the disposal of all photographers, amateur or professional. HP France, subsidiary of HP (NYSE:HPQ) announces the renewal of its involvement in the Rencontres d’Arles, opening on 5 July 2005. This return to Arles highlights HP's commitment to one of the world's top photo events. Building on the experience acquired in 2004, HP will offer innovative, carefully targeted assistance in the digital field to professionals and amateurs alike. more...

Les Rencontres de la Photographie 2005

Rich and varied, the Rencontres 2005 have been put together with the generous, enthusiastic help of photography experts from different countries. The range is intentionally wide, but the programme is given unity and direction by themes like the Awards, Brazil, Violence, Political Commitment and the Portrait. Each photographer is shown individually and works closely with the Rencontres to optimise his exhibition in the Arles setting. more...

Impressions de la Hype Gallery

The Hypegallery Photo is basically a gallery continuously updated with the work of a new generation of photographers still unknown to the public at large. Contributors can hand in a picture and have it blown up on the spot for exhibition. The result is a snapshot of current photography trends and a once-only chance for young photographers to be seen in the context of one of the world's great photography events. more...

Fred Zuill

Fred Zuill is a wild mix of photographer, technologist, inventor, musician, teacher and businessman. After 25 years serving his own clients with invention and problem-solving, Fred Zuill now serves Hewlett Packard as its Technology Consultant for photo printers. He travels the world creating two-way bridges between HP and the world of photographers – building relationships; teaching and showing; listening and bringing feedback to HP’s scientists and decision makers. more...

Douglas Kirkland

Douglas Kirkland started his career at Look and Life Magazines in the '60s' and '70s' “golden age” of photojournalism. He has worked on the set of more than 100 motion pictures (2001: A Space Odyssey, Out of Africa, Moulin Rouge) and his iconic images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, among others are known all over the world. He has received numerous awards. His work has been exhibited worldwide, and when he is not traveling the globe on assignment with his wife and business partner Francoise, his home and studio is in the Hollywood Hills. more...

Harald Johnson

Thirty years already that Harald Johnson bathes in the photographic world, of the commercial photograph to the photograph of art. Today his principal activity consulting is specialized in the image. However this man was during many years multicartes (general-purpose). Of the professional photographer to the artistic director while passing by the trade of designer, this professional of the imagery placed his knowledge at the disposal of the public. Indeed author of a best seller "Mastering DIGITAL Printing" on the easy ways of the digital prints, he is also the creator of the link DP&I.com (www.dpandi.com), paramount resource for the photographers in the fields of the imagery and the digital printing. Innovator in the medium of French photography when he worked in Paris in 1970 as an audio-visual director and a manager of a laboratory, he introduces projection photo “multiécrans”. more...

Jack Duganne

Originator of the term « giclée », and one of the original architects of digital fine art printmaking, Jack Duganne is an admirer of the new technologies concerning printing. He studied at the fine art school of the Los Angeles University and then worked with Graham Nash and Mac Holbert of Crosby, Still Nash & Young in the beginning of the edition Nash. During twenty years he was consultant in the industry of digital printing. Today he works at Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, where he teaches the use of Photoshop. He has created his own lab “Duganne Ateliers” in Santa Monica where he realises ink jet prints for artist and photographers of all background. more...

HP invent

In Arles this year, the surprise is Hp that does it in reintroducing the meetings and the workshop with famous photographers and the best experts in new technology. If Hp has proved his dynamism and its innovations, today this industrial company shows photographic values like few companies do. Hp communicates his values in lionizing the place of photography in the society and its beauty. Hp is doing a deep reflection on the photography as a social actor. more...

Assaoudia - Samer Mohdad

For the occasion of his book and his little exhibit at Actes Sud, Samer Mohdad comes back on the misadventures of his photographic project on the Arabic world. For three years, he has proposed it to François Hebel for the festival, but no… Mohdad exposes his vision of Rencontres de la Photographie more democratic, maybe one day in Arles. more...

meet Antoine d'Agata

The night lives in Antoine d’Agata. He tries to detach himself from that, but it continues to obsess him. More than just manage, this year Antoine d’Agata goes with the workshop of sensitizing to the photography for the young people of the hard area of Arles. In an equal relationship and not from teacher to student, the sensitivity of d’Agata sweats and excites the one of his interlocutor. Feeling the commiseration of the young people, d’Agata draw in them the energy, the one of innocence of his first pictures after the ones his running after. more...

I am the collection ! W.M. Hunt

It was about thirty years when W. M Hunt first bought a photography. This gesture was going to change his life. Collection Dancing Bear is indeed composed by photography gathered for many years by W. M Hunt, collector whose the creative way is particularly pronounced. This collection gathers about a thousand pictures crossing the history of photography. His first one was The Dream de Imogen Cunningham (1910) and the recenter is a colour print of the series Winterreise of Luc Delahaye. more...

My darkest image - with Barry Frydlender

The photographer Barry Frydlender describes us his darkest image. It is made up moreover 400 catches of sight, taken on one month and assembly over one 2 months period. Several photographs are the panoramic ones of almost 3 meters. The repeated presence of certain characters or certain parts of the scenes suggests the flow of time. more...

Meet François Hebel

The festival would not exist without Arles just like Arles would die a little more without the festival", expresses François Hebel. Indeed Arles has accommodated for now thirty five years "the meetings of photography"n (Les rencontres de la photographie ) and lives through the ages of the photography. In exposed works exists various works whose subjects are Arles and its territory what involves the inheritance of this city to be had, from here ten, fifteen years, a real testimony of evolution. The Photography.com magazine met the director of the festival of the Meetings of Arles: François Hébel for a presentation of the edition 2005. voir la suite...

Exhibition : Identikit self portrait - Leandrao Berra

Three years ago Leandro Berra was faxed a document unearthed in Argentina's state archives: the transcript of the interrogation of one of his schoolfriends, Fernando Brodsky, obtained under torture shortly before he died in 1978. In it, Brodsky talks about him. "I was stunned. I knew how awful it must have been for him to come clean like that. I saw his statements not as a denunciation but as additional deaths he must have experienced, deaths in advance. I felt a need to do his portrait, to tell him that I remembered him and
thought of him with affection. I could have got photos, but I preferred to use the
composite-portrait technique. It was a way of subverting a technique the police use to describe a wanted person – but who in this case was missing and dead.". more...

Exhibition : Anthropologie des visages glorieux - Arthur Omar

Arthur Omar works in all visual fields including photography and cinema.
The human face has always been a central concern for the visual arts. It may have disappeared somewhat from painting, but photography has been quick to restore its importance. Arthur Omar concentrates totally on the face, scanning its surface for his subjects’ emotions, for signs of life and death in their eyes, for the ridiculous and the painful. What photography offers – the truth of the instant and a near-infinite number of models – has allowed Arthur Omar to work towards an "anthropological" approach to the face. The painted portrait was a "bourgeois" affair; these photographs succeed in going deep into the hidden privacy of each individual, but in each case bringing forth its involuntarily yielded secret as a way of seeing I would term "democratic". These faces shine with the universal gaze of that enormous "people" to which we all belong, with all its immense suffering. more...

Exhibition : David Tartakover

I am a local designer. My relationship with the place where I live is an inseparable part of my work. This relationship is cultural, social and political. In the Eighties I began to initiate, design and produce personal posters dealing with my society and its politics. I relate mainly to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its effect on Israeli society. Most of these posters are unacceptable to the public at large, but they are an expression of the freedom of speech which exists in Israel. more...

Exhibition : Checked Baggage - Christien Meindertsma

1 pair of children’s cutlery, 7 forks, 410 pocket knives, 175 potato knives, 37 corkscrews, 573 Swiss army knives (of which 253 are fake), 211 bottle openers, 45 screwdrivers, 13 letter openers, 121 hair stylists scissors, 106 scissors, 87 nail scissors, 21 pincers, 86 nail files and 237 packets of razorblades, 12 darts, 7 toy guns, 1 bullet shaped lighter. It is just a small part of the 3264 items that Christien Meindertsma bought at an auction in Amsterdam. The square meter of household objects are all “dangerous” items taken by customs from over 600 000 passengers at Schiphol Airport in one week. Items all “Dangerous” in a World after 9/11. more...