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Arles holidays

October 2023

  • Past meets present … a first-century Roman amphitheatre near the Luma Foundation arts complex in Arles, France.

    Arles or nothing … can shiny culture bridge a serious French social divide?

    The Luma Foundation’s gleaming Gehry-designed arts centre towers over a French city struggling with debt, drugs and poverty – so who really benefits from the city’s resurgence?

June 2023

  • Heiress-funded … the former train sheds of the Atelier Luma.

    The ultimate eco building – made of salt, sunflowers and recycled urine

    Its door handles are made of salt. Its walls are made of sunflowers. Its furniture is made of Japanese knotweed. And it was stained with dyes made from filtered urine. Is this recycling marvel in southern France the future of architecture?

July 2015

  • PAOLO WOODS & GABRIELE GALIMBERTI's series THE HEAVENS, ANNUAL REPORT on shoe at Arles Photo Festival 2015 An employee of "Jetpack Cayman" demonstrates this new watersport, now available on the island. A 2000cc motor pumps water up through the Jetpack, propelling the client out of the sea (359 USD for a 30-minute session). Mike Thalasinos, the owner of the company, remarks, The Jetpack is zero gravity, the Cayman are zero taxes, we are in the right place! Grand Cayman.

    Jetpacks and vintage Vegas: the best of Arles photography festival – in pictures

  • Foodshark, 2012

    World view
    World view: All eyes on Arles, France

July 2014

  • Walé Asongwaka Takes Off.

    Rencontres d'Arles festival: the best photographs of 2014 – in pictures

    Each summer since 1970, the photographic world descends on Arles, France, for this annual celebration of their art – from divers to dogs, browse the best of this year's images

July 2013

  • Pieter Hugo's 'There's a place in hell for me and my friend', exhibited at Arles 2013

    Back to black: Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – video review

  • SOUTH AMERICA. 1957. Chile. Santiago. sergio larrain chile 1957

    Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – review

July 2011

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    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    Les Rencontres d'Arles 2011 – review

    Europe's high-profile photography festival is a disjointed affair this year, but it's worth making the trip just to see the stunning showcase of Mexican work, writes Sean O'Hagan

March 2011

  • Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

    New Europe: France
    Partying with the Gypsies in the Camargue

  • flamingoes

    My travels
    My travels: Arthur Smith in the Camargue, southern France

April 2010

  • Try your hand at the world petanque championships.

    Summer in French cities: insiders' guide

    Art and music events from Rouen to Nice, with charming places to stay

July 2009

  • Without Sanctuary, James Allen, Arles photography festival

    Photography's brightest and best come to the Arles festival

    Sean O'Hagan
  • Driving on a tree lined road in France.

    France by the French

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