to collaborate with the Rencontres de la photo and create a unique exhibition that showcases his personal connections with Polaroid photography. Through exploring the friendship and artistic vision shared by Wim Wenders and his Polaroid friends, this exhibition offers visitors a glimpse into the intimate and nostalgic world of instant photography. Don’t miss out on this extraordinary display at the Rencontres de la photo – “My Polaroid Friends: A Time Capsule of Wim Wenders’ Artistic Connections”.

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Over the years, the Rencontres de la photo have forged a close link with cinema. This year, the multidisciplinarity of the festival and the bridges between these two major arts are embodied in particular through an exhibition in the Van Gogh space, “My Polaroid friends”, imagined, excuse me, by the filmmaker Wim Wenders. “Wim, when I went to see him, he thought about it and very quickly an idea came to him. I had no a priori idea about the film at the start, nor about the selection of images, but we is said that it had to be like a time capsule”, poses Christoph Wiesner, the director of the Meetings. The German director, who signed a documentary on the photographer Sebastião Salgado, could have chosen the facility, and exploit this film. But he preferred
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