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(Espace Mistral) La Programmation
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(B) Espace Mistral, rue condorcet, Arles
Espace Mistral) The Program
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(B) Espace Mistral, Rue Condorcet, Arles
Tuesday, July 8 · 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Photographic Exchanges
Presentation of photo series (5 minutes each) by the artists, followed by individual meetings with 6 experts.
With Gilles Cargueray & Wiktoria Michalkiewicz | REZO
Wednesday, July 9 · 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Finding the Right Resources for Artistic Support
With Sonia Seraidarian, Marie Sordat, Samuel Sotto
In partnership with the Impulse Festival
Thursday, July 10 · 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
The World of Publishing: From Creation to the Distribution of a Photobook
With Camille Gallet (Éditions Odyssée), Lionel Catelan, Alain Escourbiac, Emmanuelle Parizot, Tiffany Georges, Gilles Cargueray
In collaboration with Éditions Odyssée
Friday, July 11 · 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Photographing with People: Rethinking Co-creation Practices
With Andrea Eichenberger, Amandine Turri Hoelken, Eric Sinatora, Hortense Soichet, Lydia Echeverria
In collaboration with the Diagonal Network
Tuesday, July 8
(FOCUS)
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Des minutes par seconde
TALM – School of Art and Design, Le Mans
Presentation and discussion of student portfolios from the Image, Photography, and Cinema research and creation workshops (Bachelor’s and Master’s programs). With guests from the École nationale supérieure d’art Paris-Cergy.
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM:
Focus on Central and Eastern European Photography
With Wiktoria Michałkiewicz
An overview of the contemporary photography scene in Central and Eastern Europe, presented by Wiktoria Michałkiewicz, followed by talks by three artists: Piotr Zbierski, Maciej Markowicz, and Łukasz Rusznica.
(CARTE BLANCHE)
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM: CCFD-Terre Solidaire – Facing the World
Presentation of the second edition of the International Prize for Humanist and Environmental Photography, organized by CCFD-Terre Solidaire, with the support of Honorary President Sebastião Salgado.
9:00 PM – 9:30 PM: Fondation des Treilles – Photography Residency
Maryvonne de Saint Pulgent, president of the foundation, presents the foundation’s initiatives and the "Photography Residency" Prize. Screening of a selection of 41 works by laureates since 2011.
9:30 PM – 10:30 PM: Carte Blanche to the Marrakech Photographic Encounters
(OPENING NIGHT)
10:30 PM – 12:00 AM: Opening Night of La Kabine
Live performance: Dysnomia with Alexandre Dupeyron, Thomas Julienne, and Tristan Deboise (electronic)
Solo A/V live by Frédéric D. Oberland, based on his upcoming book Vestiges du futur (electronic)
Wednesday, July 9
(CARTE BLANCHE)
Special Day: Iluminadas — Carte Blanche to the Cosmo ser fotógrafa Festival
From 11:00 AM – Entre Telas y Mares: ¡Toma Tierra!
Exhibition with artists:
Alejandra Carles Tolrá, Ana Amado, Ana Palacios, Angélica Dass, Clara de Tezanos, Claudia Cebrián, Elena de la Rúa, Elisa Miralles, Gloria Oyarzabal, Laura Torrado, Lucía Morate, Mar Sáez, Marta Soul, Rocío Bueno, Ros Boisier, Rosa Muñoz, Rosell Meseguer, Soledad Córdoba
6:00 PM – Photobook Tables: Cómo ser Fotógrafa & Vento Leste
A showcase of women-led photobook publishing—diverse perspectives and editorial innovation.
7:00 PM – Roundtable:
"Rethinking Narratives: The Emergence of New Feminist Movements"
Curators discuss current dynamics in feminist photography, moderated by Angela Berlinde.
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM – Screenings:
Women photographers & Iluminadas Award finalists
Featuring works by emerging and established female photographers.
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM – Live performance:
Más Culos, Menos Guerras by Fabiola Cedillo
A participatory performance and live photo action challenging dominant visual narratives and inviting audience interaction.
(ILUMINADAS NIGHT)
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM – Latin Music DJ Sets
With DJ Arturio & DJ Moriarti — A festive soundtrack to celebrate, dance, and connect.
11:00 PM – 00:00 AM – Carte Blanche to IANDÉ Photography
Guest Artist: Anna Khan
Invited Festival: Foto em Pauta – Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes: New Ecologies
Guest Collective: ComptemplaAtiva with Andrea Bernardelli, Nathalie Bohm, Fernanda Chemale, Andrea Nestrea, Marian Starosta
Thursday, July 10
(FOCUS)
6:00 PM – Screening: Oeildeep
Oeildeep offers long-term photo training programs for powerful project development, supported by experts and a committed community. Annual project presentation in Arles.
oeildeep.com
(CARTE BLANCHE – PHOTOJOURNALISM)
Photojournalism Night celebrates those who document the world. Alongside Reporters Without Borders, World Press Photo, and the VII Foundation, the evening features screenings, discussions, and encounters with powerful images—an homage to photojournalism as a form of resistance and truth-telling.
7:00 PM – Screening: World Press Photo
7:30 PM – VII Foundation
9:00 PM – Reporters Without Borders
POLISH PARADISE NIGHT
10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Hosted by Lodz Fotofestiwal & the Polish Institute in Paris
Screenings:
Contemporary Polish photography, FUTURES talents from Fotofestiwal, rethinking Eastern Europe
DJ sets: Disko Zakvas
VJ Set: Tom Skof
A night of screenings and music by the Fotofestiwal DJ collective. Featured photographers include:
Emilia Martin, Karol Szymkowiak, Michał Sita, Paulina Mirowska, Paweł Starzec, Karolina Wojtas, Weronika Gęsicka, Julia Klewaniec, Magda Hueckel, Tomasz Kawecki, Anna Zagrodzka, Marta Zgierska, Michalina Kacperak, Anna Kędziora, and more.
Friday, July 11
(FOCUS: VISUAL LITERACY)
La Kabine spotlights visual education—a core mission year-round, especially with youth in schools across Arles and Marseille. A Carte Blanche is offered to ATD Quart Monde and The Dreamers, along with the announcement of a new Adolescent SUD Prize.
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM – Workshop
A team game to explore 60 photographs and children's stories. For ages 6+ – up to 36 participants.
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Screening: Les Enfants Précieux
A look back at the project with ATD Quart Monde & Samuel Croix.
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM – Screening of The Dreamers 2024 finalists
Announcement of the upcoming collaboration between The Dreamers & La Kabine for the 2025 Prize.
(CARTE BLANCHE: EMERGENCE)
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM – Screening: Hey Mars
HEY MARS is a film photography project about Marseille, combining archives, portraits, testimonies, and workshops. Focus on La Cabucelle district by artist Rodrigo.
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Screening: Tendance Floue
Celebrating its 35th anniversary, the collective shares work by its newest members.
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM – Screening: ENSP Student Projects
For the second year, the festival offers ENSP students free creative rein through carte blanche screenings—a space for experimentation and the sharing of unique photographic visions.
(EMERGENCE NIGHT)
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Projection: Révélations 2025
Discover the 31 finalists of the 2025 SAIF x La Kabine Revelation Prize through a multimedia screening with live music. Each project is presented through sound and image, followed by the official winner announcement.
Finalists include:
Angela Ferrotti, Anne-Charlotte Henry, Antoine Martin, Arthur Pierrin, Bahia Ourahou, Bénédicte Roscot, Chau Chong Le, Claire Corrion, Ekaterina Balaban, Éléa Godefroy, Élisa Verdier, Marjorie Gosset, Goulven Le Bahers, Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni, Kenya Sadoun, Kianue Tran, Lucas Pialot, Lucie Hodiesne, Luma Koklova, Mahé Elipe, Manuelle Papatiero, Martine Rieffel, Maryam Touzani, Mayssa Jaoudat, Natela Grigalashvili, Nathyfa Michel, Nicolas Brunetti, Noboyoshi Takagi, Ophélie Giralt, Özge Ertukt, Filippo Poli.
9:00 PM – 1:00 AM – La Kabine x Basse Fréquence
Since its beginnings, La Kabine has explored the intersections between electronic music and photography. This year, it partners with Basse Fréquence to present a vibrant lineup highlighting emerging electronic artists, featuring a VJing session by Rodrigue. A direct Marseille–Arles connection!
Ongoing Program
(MEETING)
Portfolio Reviews by Isabelle Habert, photo editor at SAIF Images
Tuesday, July 8, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
SAIF Legal Consultations
Wednesday, July 9 – Friday, July 11, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
With or without appointment.
Booking via email: communication@saif.fr
Tuesday, July 8 – Friday, July 11, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
GIFs, Gestures, and Fragments – A Collective Screening
Artists: Edd Carr, Iris Cuppen, Anna Malina
Curator: Séverine Gay Degrendele
A screening dedicated to GIFs and moving images, blending artistic practices with critical reflection. A visual and theoretical dialogue nurtured by the works and texts of Moving Image Artists.
(EXHIBITION)
Tuesday, July 8 – Sunday, July 13
AR7 & Nicolas Sabatéry – Photo Object Dispensers & Augmented Reality
A free-access dispenser installation, like interactive cabinets of curiosities, offering unique photographic objects (C. Hatt, JL. Dubin, W. Ropp, N. Maufroy, T. Steicher, N. Sabatéry…) and an immersive augmented reality experience.
www.ar7.fr
Tuesday, July 8 – Sunday, July 13
FLUIDE – Group Exhibition
With: Mahe Elipe, Sandra Reinflet, Hannah Cauhepé, Gaëlle Matata
FLUID.E.S joins the Arles OFF Festival with a collective installation combining exhibition, screenings, portfolio readings, and a talk. The featured photographers present personal projects imbued with a distinctly queer perspective—not necessarily in subject, but in viewpoint, through the queer gaze that disrupts norms.
This exhibition highlights often-marginalized visual narratives by showcasing the work of artists whose identities and aesthetics are inherently political. FLUID.E.S defends a committed art form—both personal and collective.
You can also find FLUID.E.S during La Nuit de la Roquette, on July 11, 2025.
Le printemps
Artist Workshop by Pepe Atocha at Printemps (Avenue Lafayette)
Peruvian artist-in-residence at La Kabine, Pepe Atocha presents AYAÑAWI, “The Eye of the Dead” in Quechua—an experimental and creative space centered around a retrospective book in progress. The work blends experimental photograms (fire, fireflies, moonlight), drawings, and both analog and digital photography. Inspired by the Amazon rainforest, his practice explores photography as an act of revelation.
Open by appointment.
Winner of the SAIF x LA KABINE Revelation Prize 2024
Le Bois de la dauphine, Elsa Beaumont
This photographic series is the second part of a project carried out within a community mutual aid association based in the Cévennes. Since its founding in 1985, this association has been acquiring abandoned places in order to create welcoming spaces for marginalized people. The purpose of this work is to make visible life trajectories that develop and express themselves on the margins of our society. I also see in it the experimentation of an alternative form of freedom invented by those rejected by the model in spaces left vacant because they are no longer profitable or exploitable.
In 2020, the community purchased an old abandoned and isolated hotel on Mont Aigoual, at 1560 meters altitude: the Bois de la Dauphine hotel. Built in 1907 and dedicated until World War I to a then-nascent mountain tourism, it was subsequently abandoned for thirty years. The French Resistance fighters found refuge there in April 1944, then the Germans set it on fire as they passed through. It was only rehabilitated in 1970 to welcome, during holidays, families of employees of the Perrier factory in Vergèze (Gard). Twenty years later, the hotel was again abandoned, becoming over time a squat that was once again set on fire.
Today, seven people live there, in 2,230 m² spread over three floors, consisting of about sixty rooms. This imposing concrete block, an architectural UFO, out of this world and out of time, is isolated on a mountainside battered by winds and heavy rains.
expression by filmmaker Chris Marker in the film Sans soleil
This project received support from the DRAC Occitanie.
Biography:
Elsa Beaumont explores a documentary and social approach to photography and builds an artistic work in the organic mixtures of light and matter. Her long-term projects unite in the image intimate, interior territories of people excluded or marginalized from society. Her photographs break down representations and go beyond prejudices; they engage a sensitive connection to the other, to the different, revealing all its complexity and light.
Graduated from the Montpellier School of Fine Arts and the National Superior School of Photography in Arles, she is the winner of the SAIF x La Kabine Revelation Prize, the Maison Blanche Prize, and received a special mention of the FOCALE Prize. She was a finalist of the Mentor Prize and the QPN Prize. Her photographs are regularly exhibited and screened at various festivals, galleries, and art centers: FOCALE gallery in Nyon (Switzerland), Contemporary Art Institute in Le Vigan, Les Boutographies in Montpellier, Itinéraires des photographes voyageurs in Bordeaux, QPN festival in Nantes, 9PH festival in Lyon, Les Photographiques in Le Mans, Les nuits photographiques de Pierrevert, Fisheye gallery at the Paris Photo Fair. Her photographic projects are supported by the DRAC Occitanie, the Occitanie region, and the Gard department.
Reporters sans frontières
From the Amazon to Ukraine, from Palestine to the migration routes out of Afghanistan, Russia, or Mexico, they are on the front lines. To document suffering, yes—but also resistance and hope. Founded in 1985, Reporters Without Borders works to defend freedom, independence, and pluralism in journalism worldwide. Through daily monitoring of abuses against those who inform us, exclusive investigations, firsthand accounts, and documentaries, RSF sheds light every day on the state of press freedom and the right to information around the globe. By offering assistance and protection to journalists in danger, denouncing violence and censorship, and fighting against impunity and disinformation, RSF stands by one core belief: without a free press, our right to information is violated, and our ability to make free choices is compromised. With Photographing the World of Tomorrow, we celebrate that very free journalism.
tes en danger, en dénonçant les violences et la censure, en luttant contre l’impunité et la désinformation, RSF affirme une conviction : sans journalisme libre, c’est notre droit à l’information qui est bafoué, notre capacité à décider librement qui est entravée. Avec “Photographier le monde de demain”, c’est ce journalisme libre que nous célébrons.