Guest Room: Christoph Wiesner & Aurélien Valette

Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. Christoph Wiesner, head of the Rencontres d'Arles, has decided to collaborate with philosophy and photography graduate Aurélien Valette.

Together, they have developed the following framework for your submissions: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.

Christoph Wiesner is head of the Rencontres d’Arles since 2020, the first international photography festival, and was artistic director of Paris Photo from 2015 to 2020. After spending 15 years at Berlin’s Esther Schipper gallery, he became senior director of the Yvon Lambert gallery in Paris in 2012. Christoph Wiesner was born in 1965. He lives and works in Paris and Arles.