A lounge area with a blue sofa, a blue chair, a wooden coffee table, a blue patterned rug and red string crisscrossing the room.
View of Hyères from the Villa Noailles.
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By Matthew Beaman
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The annual Hyères Festival International de Mode & de Photographie is now in its 25th year and this year's crop of new talent was no exception to the consistently high quality and inspirational standard that we have come to expect. Wallpaper* made the pilgrimage to Villa Noailles on the south coast of France to see some of the finest photographers in fashion present their work alongside the rising stars of the industry.

Head jurors Oliviero Toscani and Dries Van Noten oversaw this year's festival, which featured, amongst its highlights, a projection of iconic images from Stephen Klein and a retrospective of the Swiss photographer Walter Pfieffer.

Our favourites from the festival, included works by Matthieu Lavanchy, Yann Gross and Robin Schwartz. Wallpaper* photographer Matthieu Lavanchy won the competition, along with fellow Swiss Yann Gross.

Outside Villa Noailles. A faded yellow three storey building with a green lawn in front of it.

Outside Villa Noailles

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Jean-Paul Lespagnard’s tree house. A double storey tree house constructed around the trunk of a tree.

Jean-Paul Lespagnard’s tree house

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A room with tables, chairs, people and wall paintings.

Portfolio reviews at Villa Noailles

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A room with a table, chairs, people, square stone floor tiles, wall paintings and a staircase.

Portfolio reviews at Villa Noailles

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Linus Bild exhibition. A room with paintings all over the walls, white floor tiles and a skylight.

Linus Bild exhibition

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Walter Pfieffer’s ’Mischievous’ exhibition. A wall covered in photographs.

Walter Pfieffer’s ’Mischievous’ exhibition

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Walter Pfieffer’s ’Mischievous’ exhibition. A white wall with photographs on it.

Walter Pfieffer’s ’Mischievous’ exhibition

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’Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle’ by Matthieu Lavanchy, 2009. A wall with floral wallpaper and a large hole at the bottom of it.

’Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle’ by Matthieu Lavanchy, 2009.

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’Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle’ by Matthieu Lavanchy, 2009. A wooden structure on stilts in front of a wall with a forest photograph on it.

’Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle’ by Matthieu Lavanchy, 2009.

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A wall with bedding and pillows covering it.

’Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle’ by Matthieu Lavanchy, 2009

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A lounge area with a blue sofa, a blue chair, a wooden coffee table, a blue patterned rug and red string crisscrossing the room.

’Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle’ by Matthieu Lavanchy, 2009

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A room with two doorways cover by silver duck tape, two red patterned rugs and a lamp.

’Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle’ by Matthieu Lavanchy, 2009.

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A man wrapped in a grey fabric studded suit standing on a blue carpet in front of a wall with a plant patterned wallpaper on it.

’Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle’ by Matthieu Lavanchy, 2009.

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A man wrapped in a red carpet standing on a red carpet.

’Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle’ by Matthieu Lavanchy, 2009.

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A little girl carrying a dog through a lake with the forest behind them.

’Carriage House Waterfall’ by Robin Schwartz, 2005. Image courtesy of M+B.

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A girl on a tree stump surrounded by white spotted deer.

’Touch’ by Robin Schwartz, 2005. Image courtesy of M+B.

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A girl lying in a bed holding a brown cat.

’Tower’ by Robin Schwartz, 2006. Image courtesy of M+B.

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A girl lying on a blanket on the ground surrounded by three kangaroos.

’Investigation’ by Robin Schwartz, 2007. Image courtesy of M+B.

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A child sitting on a bench next to a table with a Lemur jumping over her head.

’Elmo, Amelia and Abu’ by Robin Schwartz, 2002. Image courtesy of M+B. 

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A man standing next to a skate board on a skate board ramp with kids standing by a fence watching.

’Peter Kyomuhendo’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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A man in the air on a skateboard above a skate board ramp.

’Douglas, Frontside Indy’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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An African man holding a skate board with one leg up on a tree stump.

’Bosco Lypsonnie’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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An African man standing on a skateboard on a sand road.

’Joseph in Luzira’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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Skateboard ramps with an African village behind it.

’Skatepark’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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An African woman sitting on a skateboard ramp with one foot on a skateboard.

’Christine Sawunda’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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A man doing a one handed hand stand at the top of a skateboard ramp with his skateboard on his feet in the air above him.

’Frontside Handplant’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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An African man wearing elbow pads, knee pads, a helmet and holding a skateboard.

’Gilbert Mwebe’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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An African woman standing next to a boy with his foot on a skateboard and a shack behind them.

’Bashiri Ngombi & his mother’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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An African man riding a skateboard down a road through a village.

’Musa on Kirkeka Road’ by Yann Gross, from the Kitintale series.

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