In solidarity with the artists, the festival and its partners have joined forces to ensure that the 2020 awards can go ahead as usual. Following the cancellation of the 51st festival, the four awards, traditionally handed out at the Ancient Theater in Arles during opening week, will be exceptionally exhibited and awarded at the headquarters of Kering, a major Rencontres d'Arles partner.

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KERING, 40 RUE DE SÈVRES, CHAPEL OF THE FORMER LAENNEC HOSPITAL, 75007 PARIS

NOVEMBER 14 — 15, 10 am-8 pm

Visits are free and open to all. Admission only after booking online at rencontres-arles.com from

November 2 and in compliance with the health rules in force at the time.

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Women in Motion Award | Kering

At the Rencontres D’arles

In 2015 Kering started the Women In Motion program, which four years later teamed up with the Rencontres d’Arles to highlight the work of women in photography. In Arles the partners launched the Women In Motion Award, which salutes the career of a remarkable woman photographer each year. The collection. In 2019 American photographer Susan Meiselas received the award. The 2020 winner’s works will be exhibited in the chapel of the former Laennec Hospital before joining the festival’s collection.

The Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2020

Since its creation, the Rencontres d’Arles has promoted photography and all its stakeholders. In response to our call for projects, we received 200 applications, 10 of which made the shortlist. Each will be the object of an exhibition. Then a jury will choose the Louis Roederer Discovery Award’s winner. The €5,000 prize is used to purchase the project from the winning artist and his or her gallery. In a spirit of fairness because of this special year, there will be no Public Award but a €15,000 prize to be shared between the artists and the galleries presenting the nominated projects.

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Members of the jury:

Damarice Amao, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou.

Quentin Bajac, Le Jeu de Paume.

Emilie Villez, Kadist.

Christoph Wiesner, the Rencontres d'Arles.

Marie-Ann Yemsi, freelance exhibition curator.

With support from the Louis Roederer Foundation and Polka.

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Eleven young artists presented by their galleries

NEW ART EXCHANGE, Nottingham, United Kingdom & AUTOGRAPH, London, United Kingdom

Poulomi Basu/CENTRALIA

Hidden war crimes deep in the forests of central India, where indigenous tribes and the government are

fighting.

THE RAVESTIJN GALLERY, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Philippe Braquenier/EARTH NOT A GLOBE

The artist tackles conspiracy theorists at their own game: he creates images, which, taken out of context,

make us doubt that the earth rotates or that gravity exists.

GALERIE FOLIA, Paris, France

Stephen Dock/OUR DAY WILL COME

Decades of conflict and demands have shaped the identity of the Northern Irish people. Stifled violence

haunts men, places and walls. What are the hopes for peace?

GALERIE LA FOREST DIVONNE, Paris, France/Brussels, Belgium

Elsa & Johanna/FIND THE TRUTH

Elsa and Johanna put themselves’ in others’ shoes. The characters they play inhabit their staged fictions.

GALERIE CECILE FAKHOURY, Abidjan, Ivory Coast/Dakar, Senegal/Paris, France

François-Xavier Gbré/EMERGENCE, ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST, 2013 — 2020

The Franco-Ivorian photographer documents urban and social upheavals in Côte d’Ivoire.

DVIR GALLERY, Tel Aviv, Israel/Brussels, Belgium

Dor Guez/LIS DES CHAMPS

Dor Guez’s latest series explores Jerusalem’s historical and mythological richness to highlight the links

between photography, performance and historical archives.

GALERIE THIERRY BIGAIGNON, Paris, France

Amelie Labourdette/KÓSMOS

Amélie Labourdette questions the fundamental strangeness of our terrestrial environment and humans’

relationship to the biosphere and the cosmos.

GALERIA NARA ROESLER, São Paulo and Rio de Janiero, Brazil/New York, United States

Alice Miceli/ IN DEPTH (MINEFIELD)

Taking a photograph is a moment that willingly creates memory. The explosion of a mine can be

considered its exact opposite.

HEILLANDI GALLERY, Lugano, Switzerland

Davide Monteleone/SINOMOCENE

Lugano, Switzerland

STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY, Toronto, Canada

Deanna Pizzitelli/KOŽA, WOMEN AND OTHER STORIES

A group of overlapping stories, archival work and a travel journal: a metaphor for the variability and

instability of human experience. In Slovak, koža means 'skin'.

The 2020 Book Award

The Author’s Book Award

The History Book Award

The Photo-Text Book Award

Each of these €6,000-prizes is intended for the best photography books published between June 1, 2019 and May 31, 2020. The winners’ books will be exhibited in the chapel of the former Laennec Hospital.

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Members of the jury:

Simon Baker, Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

Delphine Bedel, artist, researcher, teacher, author and publisher.

Christoph Wiesner, the Rencontres d'Arles.

Main partner of the Book Awards: Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature.

Luma Rencontres

Dummy Book Award Arles 2020

Open to all professional photographers and artists using photography, this award bestowed on a dummy book carries a €25,000 endowment to allow its publication. The 2020 winner’s dummy book will be exhibited in the chapel of the former Laennec Hospital.

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Members of the jury:

Marta Gili, École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d'Arles.

Maja Hoffmann, Luma Foundation.

Christoph Wiesner, Les Rencontres d'Arles.

With support from the Luma Foundation.

Bmw Artist-In-Residence/Lewis Bush

Ways Of Seeing Algorithmically, John Berger Reloaded

The BMW Residency celebrates the ninth winner, Lewis Bush, who reflects upon contemporary images and artificial intelligence in dialogue with the thought of John Berger, host of the cult 1970s BBC series Ways of Seeing. BMW, a major partner of the Rencontres d'Arles for 11 years, supports photography by encouraging contemporary photographic practices.

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Artistic Director: François Cheval.

Virtual tour produced by BMW Art & Culture with support from GOBELINS, the school of the image.

Ways of Seeing Algorithmically is co-published by BMW Art & Culture and éditions Trocadéro.

bmw-art-et-culture/laureat-2019.fr

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