Rencontres d'Arles 2025: see so as not to forget

On the occasion of the Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles , which will be held from July 7 to October 5, 2025, Libération is giving pride of place to photography. Find the special issue "Libé des photographes" on newsstands on July 12, 13 and 14 or in its digital version .

Epistemicide. It's this terrible and illuminating word, uttered by an exhibition curator about the inhabitants of Brazilian favelas—epistemicide is the murder, silencing, or devaluation of a system of knowledge—that comes to mind as we walk through the exhibitions at the 56th Rencontres d'Arles. Without narrative, but also without photographs, without images of itself, a community, a culture, does not exist; its oppression persists.

While in the United States, an ill wind is blowing to eradicate any notion of diversity, equity and inclusion, while AI is disrupting our memory and the idea of democracy threatens to crumble, the photographers of this "unruly" edition of the festival are advancing alongside the excluded, the marginalized, the colonized peoples with the immense Nan Goldin at the forefront. In this special section, Libé has selected exhibitions where the Aborigines of Australia , the most deprived of Sicily, the indigenous peoples of Mexico, the disenchanted landscapes of America, the LGBT communities , the transsexuals of Rio de Janeiro, the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, the "deviant" girls in care, the children in search of their parentage shine... Look how (re)beautiful these photographs are... Seeing them gives hope.