Les Rencontres d'Arles, Provence, France: The world's biggest photography festival

By Kristie Kellahan
Updated September 6 2016 - 9:08am, first published 8:26am
Showing at the festival: A woman with her five children walks back through cold swamps at dusk to her hiding place after receiving food. Kok Island, South Sudan, 2015.  Photo: Fondation Ortiz
Showing at the festival: A woman with her five children walks back through cold swamps at dusk to her hiding place after receiving food. Kok Island, South Sudan, 2015. Photo: Fondation Ortiz
The opening of the 2016 Les Rencontres d'Arles.  Photo: Claire Debost
The opening of the 2016 Les Rencontres d'Arles. Photo: Claire Debost
States of Grace. Showing at the 2016 Les Rencontres d'Arles. Photo: Laurent Fievet
States of Grace. Showing at the 2016 Les Rencontres d'Arles. Photo: Laurent Fievet
September 11 plane crash snapshots. The photographs have been refashioned using photomosaic freeware, linked to Google's Image Search function. Showing at Les Rencontres d'Arles. Photo: Joan  Fontcuberta
September 11 plane crash snapshots. The photographs have been refashioned using photomosaic freeware, linked to Google's Image Search function. Showing at Les Rencontres d'Arles. Photo: Joan Fontcuberta

Madame is clearly frazzled. Fielding calls and responding to a seemingly endless line of guests at the hotel reception desk, she is explaining to a caller from the United States that the Grand Hotel Nord-Pinus Arles​ is absolutely, categorically, waiting-list full, booked solid for the next month.

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