Une Rentrée en Images 
2 SEPTEMBER - 27 SEPTEMBER 2024

Une Rentrée en Images is a free event for schoolchildren that has been taking place for almost 20 years.
Every year in September, a team of mediators welcomes over 350 classes from various schools, inviting them to Arles for a full day of image-related activities. On the program: guided tours of exhibitions, hands-on workshops and discovery of artistic works and Arles heritage. 

Une Année en Images (A Year of Images) is a school-year project to raise awareness of images, aimed at middle and high school classes in the schools of Aix-Marseille and Nice academies. 

Each year, around twenty classes benefit from the presence of a photographer during workshops held in their schools between October and May. Working around a defined theme, the students discover photography and how to take pictures, culminating in a collective creation in the form of a booklet. 

Every Spring, the Rencontres d'Arles festival organizes introductory sessions in image reading for primary school classes in Arles, based on the Pause Photo Prose game.

Pause Photo Prose is a group game that asks questions about the origins of photographs, their multiple meanings and how they are used. Putting words to pictures in this way allows participants to break from a simple "I like / I don’t like" response and to move away from sheer image consumption towards a more autonomous vision; in the process they learn to form a personal perspective and share it with others.