Contemporary photography festival · first edition
The Three Crowns Photography Festival, the founding project of Collectif Argia, is an event dedicated to contemporary photography, both a bridge between three cross-border cultures and a window open to the world.
Born from a collective reflection led by Collectif Argia, the Three Crowns Festival brings together three strong photographic perspectives in a unique cross-border setting.
Hendaye, between the Atlantic and the Pyrenees, becomes the setting for a dialogue between images, artists and the public: a humanist photography, attentive to people and their land.
The first edition is part of the bicentenary of photography, giving the programme a special resonance.
We imagined this festival as a time for encounters, where photography becomes a common language between individuals, generations and territories.
Arnaud Elissalde, President of Collectif Argia
Winner of five World Press Photo Awards, the Frontline Club Award and two Visa d’Or News awards among others, Eric BOUVET is a French photojournalist who has covered major international events since the early 1980s. His work has been published in many international magazines (Time, Life, Newsweek, Paris-Match, Stern, NYT and The Sunday Times). He has led photographic campaigns for the UN and for various NGOs and charities (Médecins sans frontières, the International Red Cross, Médecins du Monde and Action contre la faim).
Anne Rearick is an American photographer with a humanist, documentary eye. Developing a very personal approach, she sets out to show and celebrate the everyday lives of her subjects. Working over the long term, often for years, she builds strong ties with people and places. Anne has received many fellowships, grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Parkhill fellowship, the Roger Pic award, the Mosaique award in Luxembourg, a Fulbright/Annette Kade fellowship and two grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts/Mass Cultural Council.
Three approaches in dialogue, three ways of seeing and inhabiting the world.
Indoor and outdoor venues across Hendaye
Projected images, visual stories and discussions around the works
Open to the public
Registration required, limited places
Public presentation during the festival
Rules and conditions coming soon
Coming soon
Until 2027, Collectif Argia is organising three events in which photography meets History, music and journalism.
The first edition of the Three Crowns Festival will take place in spring 2027 in Hendaye. The exact date will be announced soon on the Collectif Argia website and social media.
A call for entries will open soon. The rules and conditions of participation will be published on the Collectif Argia website. Sign up to the newsletter to be notified as soon as it opens.
Would you like to support the festival? Contact Collectif Argia through the contact form on the website. Several partnership options are available: institutions, companies, associations.
Argia is a photography collective based in Hendaye, in the Basque Country. It brings photographers together around collective projects, exhibitions and cultural events. The Three Crowns Festival is its flagship project, conceived as a biennial event rooted in the local area.
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