[1] It focuses on documentary photography, video, cinema and new media through exhibitions, production, book publishing, talks and debates.

Le Bal co-publishes two or three books each year, including L’Anti-collection, a limited-edition artist’s book which it jointly publishes with the Centre national des arts plastiques, and Les Carnets du Bal.

[6] Le Bal’s educational platform, La Fabrique du Regard, has run programmes since 2008 for young people aged 8–18, especially from disadvantaged areas of Paris and its suburbs, to critically look at images.

Le Bal Café is operated by Alice Quillet, Anna Trattles and Anselme Blayney.

It carries a 5000 Euro prize intended to support the winner for two years in making or completing a documentary photography project.