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Les Rencontres d’Arles, Photography Festival in Arles, France: Part I

In part one of his feature from photographer's paradise, Joel Simpson reports on Les Rencontres d’Arles, Photography Festival in Arles, France. Running from July until September, Joel describes the festival as a "huge lovesong to the art and social practice of photography set in the ancient and hyper-picturesque city". You need several days just to take in the exhibitions, let alone all the other

3 Sep 2007

Joel Simpson

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Les Rencontres d’Arles, a huge lovesong to the art and social practice of photography set in the ancient and hyper-picturesque city of Arles, France, began with an intense week at the beginning of July. The town’s galleries, public spaces and a number of churches were filled with photo exhibis through September 16. From July 2 through 7, though, the festival offered evening projections and a Lou Reed concert in the Roman theater and a portfolio review along with press conferences and lectures. Seminars on various aspects of photography continued throughout the summer.

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Joel Simpson

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JOEL SIMPSON has been photographing since he was a teenager in the 1960s. Since then he's pursued careers in college teaching (English, French and Italian), jazz piano, and music software. His photographic art work has shown in six New York area galleries, as well as in Texas, Massachusetts, Colorado, and Seattle, and has been published in View Magazine (Brussels), and in the Center for Fine Art Photography’s Artist Showcase. In the fall of 2007 there will be a major article on his body projections in Eyemazing, a photography quarterly published in Amsterdam, for which he is the New York correspondent. From 2003 to 2006 he wrote for M: The New York Art World, and he is currently curating a large photography show at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY, entitled Sun-Pictures to Mega-Pixels: Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities (www.wahcenter.org).