Rencontres d’Arles 2025 in France to show pioneering Australian photography for the first time

PHOTO Australia has struck up a partnership with the French festival Rencontres d'Arles to spotlight 17 Australian photographic artists.
A young First Nations child wearing a mask, cape and holding a shield with Aboriginal colours, black red and yellow, standing on discarded vehicles against the Australian desert landscape.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains the name of a deceased person.

Rencontres d’Arles, France’s annual summer photography festival, will present an exhibition of Australian photography for the first time in its 55-year history, thanks to a partnership with PHOTO Australia.

Rencontres d’Arles is one of the world’s longest running photography festivals and, in 2025, it will welcome On Country: Photography from Australia, a show bringing together 17 Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and collectives.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_