The Arles Photography Festival known as Les Rencontres d’Arles has been running for well over 50 years and is now established as the world’s most influential photography festival. Running every year from mid-July until early October the festival takes over the small Roman city in the South of France and can be seen in a…
Paris Photo 2024 Paris Photo’s return to the Grand Palais venue was a great success with over 80,000 visitors across the 4 days of the event. Paris Photo is essentially a corporate event and most works are for sale with many selling for six figure numbers – reflecting the buoyancy of the market. The venue…
The beautiful town of Arles in Southern France is best known for its association with painters such as Van Gogh and Gauguin – for its shimmering light and authentic provencal culture. The town also plays host for the world’s longest running and prestigious photography festival that runs from July to September each year. During this…
My first time at the annual Paris photo fair, the largest of its kind in the world. Overlooking the Eiffel tower, Paris Photo was as much a celebration of photography as it was a marketing event. The range and quality of photography on show was extraordinarily diverse, ranging from ground-breaking contemporary ‘global’ photographers to more…