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Arles photography meetings celebrate diversity:
To assert the power of photography in the face of nationalist. Meanwhile, climatic threats is what the 56th edition of the Arles photography meetings is offered until October 5, in France. Moreover, From Australia to Brazil, the indebted images celebrate diversity in all its forms.
“The images are there to tell stories but also to testify on what one cannot always see. Consequently, ” said Christophe Wiesner, director of the meetings of Arles, invited in the morning of the RTS on July 17. Furthermore, For this 56th edition, the festival dedicated to photography gives pride of place to the indebted images. Therefore, Like the Australian exhibition “On Country” in which Aboriginal. Moreover, non-Autochton artists question the link to the land, the family and the identity.
Highlighting marginalized – Arles photography meetings celebrate diversity
Aboriginal Australia. helpless in Sicily or Trans Community of Rio, the 56th edition of Arles Meetings gives room for those arles photography meetings celebrate diversity that society prefers to ignore. “The photo has a lot of springs to be able to testify precisely the diversity of our humanity. whether it is gender, race, origin, and even both sociological and political,” explains Christophe Wiesner.
“Several exhibitions have been built around this idea of communities, continues the director. We must also realize that many of these artists, from minorities, had no say in the chapter. And there we now see the emergence in fact of a new generation which takes place in discussion”.
>> Listen. Christophe Wiesner, Director of Arles photography meetings, in the morning:
Very moderate use of AI
“Of the 160 artists of Arles meetings. only two used artificial arles photography meetings celebrate diversity intelligence, specifies Christophe Wiesner. I would tend to consider that, for the moment, it is an additional tool for artists. As part of the meetings. the two photographers of Brazilian origin who use AI do so to testify of stories that have not been documented”.
“In a case. it is a question of representing Afro-Brazilian and lesbian communities in a late 19th century style in early 20th century, in the form of small vintage photographs. In the other case. the artist used AI to tell stories around his Amazonian community”, details the director of Arles meetings.
Words collected by Aleksandra Planinic.
Web adaptation: Sarah Clément
The meetings of the photography of Arles (F), from July 7 to October 5, 2025.
Further reading: The star valve of Gio Ponti – A fresco fallen from the sky to Montreal – Hashim Nasr : On War and Displacement – Saint-Julien-Chapteuil: The lively paintings of Jacqueline Cattoen-Marcelin at the church crypt – Gaillac. The painters took the air of the griffoul.
