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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

Other events supported by WhiteWall
Submitted by WhiteWall
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
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.
Event
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.