© Romain Boutillier.
ARLES, FRANCE · JULY 6–9, 2026
ARLES PROGRAM
© Romain Boutillier.
ARLES, FRANCE · JULY 6–9, 2026
ARLES PROGRAM
© Romain Boutillier.
ARLES, FRANCE · JULY 6–9, 2026
ARLES PROGRAM
© Romain Boutillier.
ARLES, FRANCE · JULY 6–9, 2026
ARLES PROGRAM
© Romain Boutillier.
ARLES, FRANCE · JULY 6–9, 2026
ARLES PROGRAM

featured exhibition

Armed Iranian women carrying rifles take part in a parade during a ceremony pledging allegiance to Iran’s new leader, organized by the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), in Tehran, Iran, April 17, 2026, during a ceasefire between Iran and the U.S.-Israel coalition. © Ali Khara.

JULY 8, 2026 | 10:00

A landmark exhibition exploring the visual language of conflict and reconciliation, drawn from The VII Foundation’s Imagine project.

ALL EVENTS

The slap that changed the world 1982. © Donna Ferrato.

JULY 6, 2026 | 17:00

For the first time in 44 years, Donna Ferrato visits Arles to, in her words, “engage with an ardent visual community, to speak my truth without fear of reprisal.”

A projection of DARFUR/DARFUR images in New-York, 2007. © Ron Haviv.

JULY 7, 2026 | 15:00 

Want to do more with your photography? Take part in an intensive small-group workshop led by documentary filmmaker, curator, and human rights activist Leslie Thomas.

A teenage rock band practice in Dobrinja. Culture was one of the main ways that the city defended its values as a European capitol. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Winter 1993. © Paul Lowe / VII.

JULY 8, 2026 | 16:00

Explore the role of visual literacy in today’s world through a panel discussion, followed by an interactive Visual Thinking Strategies workshop led by the team at VTS Nederland.

Fernando Cruz casts his fishing net along the shore of Cedeňo beach, Honduras, Nov 29, 2024. © Santi Palacios.

JULY 9, 2026 | 16:00

Discover how Solutions Visual Journalism expands the possibilities of visual reporting by highlighting responses to social challenges alongside traditional photojournalism.

Marta Fast sits in the bedroom of a small house in Rot-Front, a village in Kyrgyzstan’s Chüy Region, on Oct. 10, 2022, while visiting her birthplace. Like most ethnic Germans in the village, she and her husband, Jakob Fast, immigrated to Germany in the late 1990s. Marta’s German father remained in Kyrgyzstan, fluent in Kyrgyz and deeply connected to the community, but encouraged his daughter to leave due to their experiences as a small ethnic minority facing discrimination. Marta knows her family’s story well. Her grandfather was taken by the Black Raven (Чёрный ворон), an NKVD prisoner-transport van used for nighttime arrests during Stalin’s Great Terror. In March 1938—her mother’s seventh birthday—he was arrested at his home in nearby Telman and executed that same day. The NKVD’s 1937–38 German Operation targeted ethnic Germans in the Soviet Union with mass arrests, executions, or Gulag deportations—like my grandfather’s fate. © Irina Unruh.

JULY 9, 2026 | 18:00

Experience a screening of VII Community’s Square Mile, presented with PhotoWings. This year’s edition, What Lives Between Us, considers the stories, relationships, and legacies that endure across generations.

The audience at "Indie" music night sing along in karaoke style to a Blur song at the nightclub Trash in Soho, London, England in July 2000. © Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII.

JULY 9, 2026 | 19:15

Hear from The VII Foundation’s alumni and contributing photographers at our annual Open Mic Night, an evening of work, storytelling, and conversation.

PAST EVENTS

Soldiers of the 43rd Heavy Artillery Brigade, which are part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, operated a 2S7 Pion cannon, firing shells towards Russian fortifications inside the city of Kreminna, from an area west of Kreminna, Ukraine, on Saturday, December 31, 2022. © Nicole Tung / VII.

PANEL DISCUSSION

JULY 10, 2025

Nicole Tung, alongside photojournalists Patrick Chauvel and Belal Khaled, reflect on five decades of conflict reporting, marking 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War.

At sunrise, seen in the trees of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique on September 10, 2023. © Guerchom Ndebo.

PANEL DISCUSSION

JULY 11, 2025

Hosted by Dr. David Campbell, the discussion considers how visual reporting must do more than chart the problem, adopting solutions-focused approaches to engender real change.

 
©Photograph by David Turnley

PANEL DISCUSSION

JULY 4, 2024

Hear from The VII Foundation’s alumni and contributing photographers at our annual Open Mic Night, an evening of work, storytelling, and conversation.