ARLES 2021

The volume 'Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows' by Japanese photographer Takashi HOMMA illustrates the role of windows as spaces rather than surfaces that connect the interior of a building and the surrounding landscape, or the private and the public.

On the Shortlist 2021. Katherine LONGLY met Blieke, Nicole and their dog 'Plume' one December evening. From then on, they invited the photographer to parties and told her about their fascinating lives. 'Hernie & Plume' is also about aging and true love.

'Rumors of War' by Christoph BANGERT is a personal diary of a former war photographer. He describes his inner conflict between the egoism driven feeling of doing something meaningful and the concern of his family & friends going through hell emotionally.

'Chroma' contains a photo series that originated in the early 1980s when John DIVOLA was looking for more stable material, such as the artificial, industrial cibachrome - very flawed for conventional images, but with properties that produced these images.

This photo volume 'Standing by the Wall - Berlin 1990' by Josef Wolfgang MAYER is designed in triptychs and consists exclusively of fold-out pages that expand the individual picture into a panorama. This suddenly makes the past time present again.

'Transgalactic. Photography. Gender. Transition' highlights works by trans and/or queer artists and their authentic testimonies that break gender stereotypes. Texts and images explore the diversity of perspectives on photography, gender and transition.

Author Book Award 2021. The book 'Freedom Is Not Free' by Mashid MOHADJERIN, accompanies an exhibition that explores the private and public worlds of Iranian women who grew up after the 1979 revolution, and significant places from the artist's childhood.

'Suicidal Birds' by Sebastain ROGOWSKI shows his 1st trip through Kazakhstan with no specific destination and no fixed accommodation. The photographers Alex WEBB & Alec SOTH will have been the inspiration for the great photos in the best sense of the word

'A Parallel Road' by Amani WILLETT, explores in a nuanced & multi-layered way the themes of history, racism, violence as well as black identity in the USA. It reflects on the past & present within a major American theme and encourages an integral dialogue

Strictly limited to 130 cps., 'Panopticon' by Riccardo DOGANA is a reflection of media content. Using selected topics from the last decade - emigration, climate change, wars, organized crime, terrorism - the truthfulness of the WorldWideWeb is questioned.