Voies Off Festival 2016

Voies Off Festival :: Emerging Photographies in Arles
21th édition in the Courtyard of the Archbishop :: July 4 > 9, 2016
Exhibtions #OffArles :: July 4 > September 25, 2016

Since 1996, right in the midst of the Rencontres d'Arles festival, every first full week in July, Voies Off Festival offers an alternative program (exhibitions, projections, portfolio reviews, professional panel discussions) to a new generation of artists and photographers. Since its inception Voies Off has made a commitment to helping young creators. The actions and goals of its programs are designed to help and sponsor young fine-art photographers, to display and promote their works with the highest quality, and in the best manner possible.

Screening Nights
Discover the best of the young international photographic creation

Each evening during the first full week in July, Voies Off Festival offers free Screening Nights under the starry sky of the Courtyard of the Archbishop's Palace in Arles. It is a unique opportunity for the best works of a new generation of photographers to be seen: 60 artists, selected among 1,500 applications from all over the world.

Considered by specialists from the world of photography as a place to discover new talents, Voies Off Screening Nights have revealed, among other renowned artists: Antoine d'Agata, Vincent Debanne, Charles Fréger, Olivier Metzger, Mohamed Bourouissa.

Voies Of fAward

Photographers from all over the world can apply to the 'Voies Off Award' photo compétition. Participate in the Voies Off Award till March 20, 2016 and you will give your work all the visibility it deserves: www.voies-off.com/inscrire

Crazy Nights, afters DJ et VJ
Celebrate the photograph till the end of the night

Crazy Nights are now the meeting place for night owls in Arles. In partnership with Hologram collective Voies Off invites some of the spearheads of the emerging electronic scene to punctuate these afters DJ and VJ. After the screenings, they provide a friendly atmosphere, to dance until dawn on well-tempered and impetuous sounds, between glittery vintage pop and ultra licked electro.

Exhibitions #OffArles
Visit the 2016 #OffArles and discover hundreds of photographic exhibitions

Throughout the summer, a hundred exhibitions are held throughout the City of Arles. The access is free for everybody. Through the publication of a reference leaflet program, Voies Off unites all of these events that constitute the #OffArles: exhibitions, installations, happenings, book signings....

Voies Off is not the organizer of these events, but we propose to highlight them in our program: this come to offer festival-goers a rich journey, walking among the various districts of the city of Arles.

In 2015, #OffArles represented about 90 exhibitions and many other events, throughout the city of Arles. Be part of the 2016 #OffArles

You organize a photographic event in Arles this summer and you would like it to be mentionned in the 2016 Off Program? Click here Particular or profesionnal, you own a venue in Arles (gallery, house, restaurant, hotel...) and you want to lend or to rent it for an exhibition? Click here

Pros meetings
Meet an international network of over 100 experts

Voies Off offers personalized support to young photographers by organizing more than 1,100 portfolio reviews: individual meetings of 20-min between photographers and professionals of the contemporary photography.Art critics, publishers, galerists, iconographers, directors of festival, members of collectives, agencies… For the reviewers, it is one of the best way to prepare a future programming and to discover new talents : a lot of them are loooking for new collaborations.

Every year, numerous exhibitions or publications emerge during these meetings. Pros mornings :: Meet experts and discuss about the photographer's job

In partnership with SAIF, Voies Off organizes roundtables around the photographer's job. Lecturers are all specialists of the issues related to the exercise of the profession. They come here to meet an audience of authors, often in business startup.