Les Recontres d'Arles: 24 hours of adventure

Adventure can be just a Substack recommendation away...

I've only recently had a chance to go through my photos from the photography festival Les Rencontres d'Arles. With the festival's run coming to an end this month, it feels like a good time to post some highlights from my whirlwind visit to the city.

During our recent stay in France, a fellow Substacker,

George Appletree

, suggested I visit this famous photography festival. We altered our plans and, instead, had an adventure for 24 hours. Here’s the result.

Street art along the way

Scenes across the city

Saul Leiter's Assemblages at PALAIS DE L'ARCHEVÊCHÉ

“Photographs are considered important moments in time. In fact, according to Saul Leiter, tiny fragments of an unfinished world. Such is his own world, little fragments of images juxtaposed and conjoined, amassing and forming vast, ever-expanding fields.

“He photographed that which obstructs, hides, encloses, and thus reveals new depths of reality. New York, paradigm of modernity, that city of unceasing rhythm, was for nearly sixty years the locus of his aesthetic finds and optical inventions.” Anne Morrin

Next year, I'll plan better, book an Airbnb in the city for a few days, and fit more into the time.

Breathtaking venues and a city worthy of a few days of indulgence. Go if you can!

Hope you enjoyed my photo essay. More information about the exhibitions can be found here.

My next stop, Paris Photo, is from 9-12 November, when I’ll be heading to my favourite city as part of my MA studies.