The world’s biggest photography festival, Arles largely avoids urgent politics, but includes many interesting exhibitions around images and how we use them

The world’s biggest photography festival, Arles largely avoids urgent politics, but includes many interesting exhibitions around images and how we use them
From themes of mythologised memories and ancestral resistance to decolonial archives, this year’s edition of the world’s biggest photography festival centres global narratives
After publishing Father with Aperture and exhibitions at The National Portrait Gallery and Foam, the Armenian American photographer looks ahead to her shows in Berlin and at Recontres D’Arles
How to Unname a Tree dismantles the notion of trees as static symbols, revealing them as beings that blur the lines of identity
BJP heads to Jimei in China to find a festival bringing forward a vast programme dissecting immigration, family histories and new technology
A collective for photobook-makers in the SWANA region, aka TAWLA aims to highlight their narratives and recently created a publication featuring Palestinian photographers
The most respected photofestival in the world continues to seek out new voices, says director Christoph Wiesner
Established in 2013, Kyotographie is now one of the biggest photofestivals in Asia. This spring it returns for its 12th edition with exhibitions themed around ‘Source’
Informed by her own history and the established canon of photography, Krajnak’s work is a complex exploration of presence and place