Arno Rafael Minkkinen, winner of the Academy of Fine Arts Photography Prize
The Ville de Deauville, the Planches Contact Festival and Les Franciscaines are delighted to announce that the Prix de Photographie de l'Académie des beaux-arts - William Klein 2025 has been awarded to Arno Rafael Minkkinen, guest of honor at this 16ᵉ edition. This prestigious distinction crowns a major career, saluting the artistic and spiritual commitment of a photographer whose work, for over fifty years, has explored the links between the body, landscape and nature.
A key figure in contemporary photography, Arno Rafael Minkkinen is at the heart of the Planches Contact Festival's 2025 program, with two major exhibitions and an exceptional meeting with the public. A unique resonance between Deauville and the Académie des Beaux-Arts, between institutional recognition and artistic celebration.
Since the early 1970s, Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been staging his own body in nature. His work, always produced without manipulation or retouching, is a silent dialogue between man and the elements. With his new series, produced during a residency in Normandy, he continues the dialogue that runs through all his work: that between man and the elements. In the landscapes of the Normandy coast, his body blends in like an extension of the shoreline, a fleeting silhouette absorbed by the light, a link between human fragility and the strength of the natural world.
An immersion into the intimacy of an artist who makes each image an act of revelation. True to the spirit of the Planches Contact Festival, it celebrates photography as a space for exchange, reflection and freedom.
Today's programme:
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| Upcoming exhibitions
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Free entry |
| 10:30 a.m. > 6:30 p.m. - Closed on Mondays |
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> Book |