An unmissable summer event in Brittany, the La Gacilly photo festival will head to the Orient for its 19th edition.

From June 1 to September 30, around twenty exhibitions will be presented in the streets and gardens of the town of Morbihan with a particular spotlight on Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Three countries "with a Muslim majority which remain subject to the laws of religion and sometimes even obscurantism", according to Cyril Drouhet, exhibition curator.

“Three countries that we know little about but which have won the hearts of all travelers who have ventured there,” he added during a press conference.

Among the photographers in the spotlight this year is an Iranian "legend": Abbas Attar, a former journalist at the Magnum agency.

The festival is devoting the first retrospective of his work to him since his death in 2018.

Over 300,000 visitors last year

"The most moving pictures" of two reporters who have witnessed the upheavals of recent history in Afghanistan will also be on display: Shah Marai, former photo editor of the AFP office in Kabul, killed in a suicide bombing in 2018 in the Afghan capital, and his successor Wakil Kohsar.

As every year, the fragility of our planet will also be questioned through several exhibitions.

Last year, the free festival attracted more than 300,000 visitors.

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