Alice Springs. Front Row

Opening: 10 July 2025, 12 noon - 3 pm // Galerie Huit Arles (by invitation only)

For the first time, photographs by Alice Springs will be presented in summer 2025 during the Rencontres d’Arles, the legendary photo festival in the south of France. Julia de Bierre founded the non-commercial institution Galerie Huit Arles there in 2007 and has since hosted a wide range of photographers each year during the Rencontres, with around 80 exhibitions to date. Her close friend June Newton, who worked under the name Alice Springs, had been scheduled to show work at the gallery in 2009, but the plan was never realized. Now, in cooperation with the Helmut Newton Foundation, which also manages the Alice Springs estate, the exhibition Front Row will feature nearly 50 portraits of leading figures from the international art and fashion scenes.

The list of those who sat for her reads like a who’s who of the cultural, creative and intellectual elite on both sides of the Atlantic – including Claude Chabrol, Christopher Lambert, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Sebastião Salgado, Anna Mahler, Christopher Isherwood, Bruce Chatwin, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Azzedine Alaïa, Vivienne Westwood, Robert Mapplethorpe, André Leon Talley, Yves Saint Laurent, Diana Vreeland, Wim Wenders, William Burroughs, Agnès Varda, Michel Foucault, Karl Lagerfeld, and Andrée Putman…