Lianzhou, which sits on the Lian River, has become famous for an international photography festival celebrated yearly in the city.

Annual photography festivals also take place in Arles, Perpignan and Cahors.

PhotoEspaña, Europe's largest photography festival, has been a pin on the cultural map for an impressive fourteen years, with some 800 exhibitions in its back catalogue.

WHEN designing a photography festival, it doesn't hurt to pitch your tent in a photographic locale with a tradition of mixing art and pleasure.

But Paris Photo has one irresistible selling point that none of the more than 20 other international photography festivals can hope to lay claim to.

In 2011 he was nominated for the Discovery Award at the photography festival in Arles, France.

Madrid's photography festival proves the medium still has some surprises up its sleeve.

An international photography festival has been held in the city since 1970.

His curatorial experience includes serving as the Artistic Director of the 1996 Rencontres d'Arles, an international photography festival.

From 1980 to 1989, he had been running "Analytical exhibitions of Photography" and the annual open-air photography festival on Kundysh river.