Three Shadows Photography Art Centre has been working closely with Les Rencontres d’Arles since 2015 to found the International Photo Festival in Xiamen’s Jimei District, jointly organized by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and Xiamen Tianxia Jimei Media Co., Ltd. Jimei x Arles introduces excellent overseas photography works with an open and inclusive attitude, synchronizing with the freshest international vision; works with various experts and institutions to explore the creative power of Chinese photography, facilitates the dissemination of excellent contempo- rary photography works and continues to promote them on the international stage.

Since 2020, Christoph Wiesner, director of Les Rencontres d’Arles, and RongRong, Chinese contemporary photographer and co-founder of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, have been serving as Co-Directors, with noted photography critic Gu Zheng serving as Art Director. The 8th Jimei x Arles will present 30 exhibitions, featuring works by more than one hundred artists from France, Thailand, Brazil, the United States and mainland China: six “Exhibitions from Arles” selected from 2022 Les Rencontres d’Arles, ten “Discovery Awards” exhibitions focusing on outstanding young Chinese artist photographers, three “Greetings from Thailand”exhibitions, one “China Pulse” exhibition showing the exploration and development of Chinese higher art colleges in photography, three “Crossover Photography” exhibitions, one “Tribute” exhibition, one “Collector’s Tale”exhibition, two“Local Action”exhibitions, one Jimei x Arles “Group Exhibition of the Finalists’Proposals for Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image”, one photography exhibition “THE HORIZON”, and one “Jimei x Arles Photobook Exhibition”.