Perimeter x Arles Book Fair 2025
Perimeter is delighted to be making our Arles Book Fair debut in 2025! Taking place July 8–12 amongst the epic Rencontres d'Arles photography festival, the Arles Books Fair will bring together over eighty international publishing houses across two locations.
During the fair, Perimeter Editions will be launching three new major publications: Ying Ang – Fruiting Bodies (Perimeter Editions 111); Michael Cook – Conditioned (Perimeter Editions 109); and On Country: Photography from Australia (Perimeter Editions 110), which has been published alongside PHOTO Australia's landmark exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles. Find more about these specific titles below! At the Perimeter table – located at the Collège Saint-Charles – you can also find a selection of new and backlist Perimeter Editions titles, including Hair Pieces, Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits, Analogue Images, Rory Gardiner, Maxime Delvaux and many more.
ARLES BOOK FAIR 2025
with France Photobook
Collège Saint-Charles
2 Rue de la Calade
1320 Arles, France
Also at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie
Tuesday July 8 – Saturday July 12
1pm–7.30pm
LAUNCHING AT ARLES | On Country: Photography from Australia
‘Country’ is a term embodied by First Peoples in Australia to describe the lands, waterways, seas and cosmos to which they are connected. It represents Ancestral ties to a place, and the living cultural presence of that place, and references the complex relationship land has to language, family and identity. Being ‘on Country’ is more than just being situated somewhere, it is about being shaped by that place, connected to it, and having a responsibility to care for it.
Placing First Peoples’ practice and relationality at the core of this project – accompanying PHOTO Australia's landmark exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles 2025 – On Country: Photography from Australia brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists who bear witness to both the visible and invisible aspects of being on Country. Through their work, the project explores old and new relationships between Country and colonialism, community, and identity in Australia today.
Read more, and pre-order your copy here.
LAUNCHING AT ARLES | Ying Ang – Fruiting Bodies
ARTIST SIGNING: Friday July 11, 5.30pm–6.30pm
Rooted in ecofeminist thought, Fruiting Bodies depicts mushrooms growing in pairs, in clusters, or alone – their delicate structures echoing the human body and reclaiming the organic world as a site of feminist inquiry. Like the female body, mushrooms have been understood and valued primarily through their reproductive function. Yet, beneath the surface, a vast underground mycelial network is vital in ways that defy conventional visibility: in care, in knowledge, in reciprocity. Fruiting Bodies documents these quiet, transient structures as metaphors that challenge dominant narratives of fertility and productivity.
Read more, and pre-order your copy here.
LAUNCHING AT ARLES | Michael Cook – Conditioned
For Michael Cook, photography is a means of reimagining and rewriting. His language is embedded in questions of what was, what is, what might have been, and what could be. Conditioned, the Bidjara artist’s first book for Perimeter Editions, draws upon key series from the last decade to prise open histories and imaginaries that simmer between Indigenous and European experiences, perspectives, and consciousness. Soft, painterly tones and fastidious compositional details provide a filmic backdrop for historical pathos, speculative futures, imaginary leaps, and unrestrained what-ifs.