July 7 to October 5, 2025

Arles - A place of encounter

Arles, the meeting place of the summer

Every summer, french city Arles transforms into the vibrant heart of photography. With the Rencontres d'Arles, an internationally renowned festival, the city has been attracting artists, photographers and photography enthusiasts from all over the world for over 50 years. 

Exhibitions, galleries, independent projects... the whole city lives to the rhythm of contemporary photography. WhiteWall is proud to contribute to this unique creative upswing with its know-how.  

Exhibitions supported by WhiteWall

Discover the exhibitions supported by WhiteWall as part of FOTOHAUS ARLES – hosted at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation. Photography becomes a living memory, an act of resistance, and a glimmer of hope for renewal. 

Address: FOTOHAUS Arles - 18 rue de la Calade in Arles

Discover the exhibition DISOBEDIENT IMAGES – Ungehorsame Bilder, presented by ProfiFoto as part of the OFF programme at Rencontres d’Arles 2025. On view are works by 40 international photographers who reveal the rebellious potential of photography.

Address: GALERIE LA GRANDE VITRINE - 12 rue Jouvène in Arles

Tracing the Possible

The exhibition brings together the work of seven photojournalists from the laif agency. They document life journeys around the world that are characterized by courage, solidarity and creativity and confront the challenges of climate, conflict, and identity issues. 

These images inspire us to rethink our ideas of community, happiness, and coexistence. Even amid crisis, spaces of hope and transformation emerge. 

Read the interview with the curator
Portrait of a young person under a clear blue sky. The subject wears a leopard print top and has their eyes closed, facing the sun with a serene and confident expression. Artistic photograph with strong light-shadow contrast and powerful social commentary.

Ashes of the Future, Alexandre Dupeyron

After the devastating fires in the Gironde in 2022, Alexandre Dupeyron captures what remains: charred forests, imbued with a new light. His images tell of disappearance, transformation, and the early signs of rebirth. 

Blending ecological insight with poetic vision, the exhibition explores our relationship with nature, its destruction, and how humans cope with what they no longer understand. Even fire becomes an expression of beauty here - and the injured forest, a symbol of new beginnings.

Read the interview with the artist
Artistic photograph of leafless trees against a dramatic, textured sky in blue and brown tones, taken by Alexandre Dupeyron. The image captures motion blur and light reflections, evoking a dreamlike, painterly atmosphere reminiscent of impressionist art.

One Millions Years, Jann Höfer & Martin Lamberty

27,000 cubic meters of highly radioactive waste: produced in a short space of time, it will remain dangerous for a million years. This is the dizzying scale on which Germany is currently searching for a repository that can protect humanity for the next millennia. 

Through their photographic work, Jann Höfer and Martin Lamberty question our nuclear legacy. How can we pass such a burden to future generations? What will this legacy say about our time, about our relationship to responsibility, to time, to collective memory? 

An attempt to make the invisible visible - and to comprehend the unimaginable. 

Read the artists interview
Studio portrait of a person wearing an orange protective suit, blue gloves, yellow boots, and a helmet with a gas mask. Photographed by Jann Höfer & Martin Lamberty, the image highlights safety gear typically used in industrial, emergency, or hazardous environments.
woman holding a wooden frame without image
Behind the scenes at WhiteWall

Erida from the WhiteWall framing workshop is preparing the Basel floater frame for mounting.

person with gloves holding a photo wall art
Behin the scenes at WhiteWall

Photo prints mounted on alu Dibond are carefully cleaned and checked before being assembled with the frame.

gloved hands applying a quality certificate to the back of a painting
Behind the scenes at WhiteWall

A WhiteWall quality certificate is affixed to the back of the artwork.

Behind the scenes at WhiteWall
Behind the scenes at WhiteWall

DISOBEDIENT IMAGES – Presented by ProfiFoto

From July 7 to 10, 2025, ProfiFoto presents the exhibition DISOBEDIENT IMAGES – Unruly Images as part of the OFF program of Rencontres d'Arles 2025.

The carefully curated selection highlights the subversive power of photography in an age of constant image saturation – challenging conventions, narratives, and power structures.

Thomas Gerwers, publisher of ProfiFoto and curator of the exhibition: “In July, Arles becomes the vibrant heart of the global photography scene. When artists from all over the world come together, a dynamic dialogue emerges – about visual worlds, realities, and visions. The closeness between the photographers and an audience with a trained eye and open mind makes this encounter so special.”

The opening takes place on Monday, July 7, from 6 p.m., with many of the exhibiting artists in attendance. In addition, on July 11 at 5 p.m., a public get-together will be held at the gallery by the BFF Berufsverband Freie Fotografen und Filmgestalter e.V. in cooperation with Leica.

Address: GALERIE LA GRANDE VITRINE – 12 rue Jouvène, Arles

Unruly Images

At GALERIE LA GRANDE VITRINE in the historic center of Arles, works by 40 international photographers will be exhibited, each engaging with the concept of visual disobedience in diverse and at times provocative ways.

Thomas Gerwers: “With our exhibition, we aim not only to showcase works but to make voices heard – visual voices that question conventions, shift perspectives, and open new spaces for thought. We want to offer a stage for those who use the camera not just to depict, but to disrupt, provoke, and poetically intervene – aesthetically, thematically, and socially.”

Blurred monochrome portrait of the silhouette of a woman photographed from behind
Woman with sea shells in front of her eyes
DISOBEDIENT IMAGES - Galerie La Grande Vitrine, Arles

Monika Maroziene, Masquerade

Portrait of a man with short hair and dyed blond hair with nails on the shoulders of his leather jacket
DISOBEDIENT IMAGES - Galerie La Grande Vitrine, Arles

Jesus Umbría Bríto, Retaguardia

Photo with a woman in the foreground, slightly out of focus, and a grief bird in the background, which is in focus
DISOBEDIENT IMAGES - Galerie La Grande Vitrine, Arles

Blagovesta Semkova, Sun

Blurred outline of a woman wearing a dress photographed from behind
DISOBEDIENT IMAGES - Galerie La Grande Vitrine, Arles

Nancy Poeran, We are all made of light and shadow

Portrait of a person, with focus on nose, mouth and chest. It is a monochrome image and the model is wearing a black and white blouse
DISOBEDIENT IMAGES - Galerie La Grande Vitrine, Arlesv

Piotr Skubisz, Portrait of a poet

The products presented in the exhibition

Meet our WhiteWall expert, Vivien Liskovsky at Arles

Our WhiteWall expert Vivien Liskovsky is accompanying the exhibitions on site and will be present during the opening week in Arles. Take the opportunity to discuss your photo projects with her in person and get to know the various forms of presentation offered by WhiteWall. 

Personal meeting by appointment directly at paris@whitewall.com.

portrait of Vivien Liskovsky.

Other events supported by WhiteWall

Submitted by WhiteWall

View of Arles old city center.

Arles - the long-awaited get-together for photographers

The most eagerly awaited photo event of the summer: Les Rencontres d'Arles is back for another edition. Discover the exhibitions supported by WhiteWall this year.

Submitted by WhiteWall Team

Flooded house with balcony, people in safety vests, partially submerged car in brown water.

DOCKS Collective - "A Year Along the Banks"

The Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles - an institution since 1970 - has turned this small town in the south of France into what is now an internationally recognized center of photography. Discover, among others, the DOCKS Collective works produced by WhiteWall, showing documentary impressions of the devastating floods in the Ahr Valley from 2021.

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woman hiding her face with her hands - red background

Focus Lituanie, Circulation(s) 2025

As part of its focus on Lithuania, the festival is highlighting various series exploring notions of identity, memory and reality through contemporary artistic approaches. Drawing on themes such as uprooting, media dehumanization and the influence of digital technologies, the works question our perception of others and the world around us. They reveal the tensions between visibility and erasure, authenticity and artifice, while offering a profound reflection on the impact of images in our society.