The first-ever exhibition to focus on Australia at the Rencontres d’Arles.

PHOTO Australia, producers of the PHOTO International Festival of Photography in Melbourne will partner with the Rencontres d’Arles, one of the world’s most prestigious and longest running photography festivals. Together they will premiere the exhibition ‘On Country: Photography from Australia’ in Arles, France – the first time there has ever been a regional focus on Australia at the Rencontres d’Arles.

Curated by PHOTO Australia Founder/Artistic Director Elias Redstone, Guest Curator Kimberley Moulton (Yorta Yorta), and PHOTO Australia Curators Pippa Milne and Brendan McCleary, ‘On Country: Photography from Australia’ highlights the depth and diversity of photographic practice in Australia to new international audiences through the work of 17 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and collectives.

The exhibition features over two hundred photographic works by established and emerging artists that bear witness to both the visible and invisible aspects of being ‘on Country’ – a term embodied by First Peoples in Australia to describe the lands, waterways, seas and cosmos to which they are connected.