The Rencontres d’Arles stands with the Ukrainian people as they fight for their freedom

© Elena Subach

All week, the festival pays tribute to the artists and photographers whose lives are threatened by Russia’s aggression.

TUESDAY JULY 5
SCREENING AT THE 
THÉÂTRE ANTIQUE

WEDNESDAY JULY 6
COUR FANTON TALK
THE KHARKIV SCHOOL 
WITH TATIANA 
AND EVGENIY PAVLOVTThe Kharkiv Photography School is a Ukrainian art movement that emerged in the 1970s, in opposition to Soviet socialist realism. Tatiana 
and Evgeniy Pavlov talk about the invention of a visual language and their commitment to Ukrainian identity.

THURSDAY JULY 7
SCREENINGS
AT THE THÉÂTRE ANTIQUE

In the Photo Slam, a New Generation frame, a part of the show focuses on Ukraine’s contemporary photography scene with young artists talking about their commitments and challenges since Russia invaded their country.

With:

OLIVIER SARRAZIN 
Olivier Sarrazin has spent many years documenting the political situation on his trips to Russia and Ukraine.

MARIE CASTAGNOLA 
Intimate correspondence between the photographer and her Ukrainian friends suffering in the war.

ELENA SUBACH
The photographer, who stayed at home in Lviv, presents two series, one created in peacetime, the other, more photojournalistic, showing how art works are protected from bombing.

MAXIM DONDYUK 
Maxim Dondyuk chronicles the Ukrainian people’s long battle for freedom, independence and national identity. He has documented three turning points in the history of his country, where two visions for the same territory always clash. One is steeped in nostalgia for the Soviet Union, the other aspires to be an independent European country.

See the full programme

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