Echoing the 57th edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles

Present at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026 with the exhibition A Sense of Place / Le sens du lieu, Harry Gruyaert holds a major place in the history of colour photography. The film returns to a practice in which colour is not only a matter of visual intensity, but becomes a principle of composition, a way of organising space and transforming the perception of places.

In 2026, Antoine d’Agata will lead a workshop entitled Le journal intime: aux limites de l’acte photographique. The film extends this approach by offering access to a body of work in which the image directly engages the body, lived experience and confrontation with reality. Photography appears less as a position of observation than as a form of physical and existential involvement.

As Les Rencontres d’Arles presents Anne-Lise Broyer’s work in 2026 as part of the exhibition Méditerranée. Est-ce là que l’on habitait ?, this film offers another way into her practice. It explores a body of work situated at the crossroads of photography, drawing and literature, attentive to landscapes, traces, materials and the silent memory of places.

Invited to Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026 for a workshop day, Jane Evelyn Atwood has, for several decades, developed a documentary practice grounded in immersion, proximity and duration. The film returns to her way of photographing lives situated on the margins of social norms, making time a condition of narrative.

Also present at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026, where he will lead the workshop Une façon de voir, devoted to the construction of a personal photographic language, Martin Bogren develops a photography attentive to places, bodies and intimate experiences. The film opens onto a body of work built through proximity and duration, where observation gradually becomes a way of bringing a personal vision into focus.