Programme nurtures emerging curators for photography and moving image

The 2025 Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, one of Asia's premier annual photography events, will conclude on January 4, 2026, in Xiamen, Fujian province.

Since its inception in 2014, the festival has not only celebrated the diversity and vitality of global contemporary photography and moving image art, but has also grown into a platform for discovering, nurturing, and promoting talented Chinese photographers and curators specializing in lens-based art.

This year's festival introduced the Curatorial Programme for Photography and Moving Image — a joint initiative of the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and French fashion house Chanel.

The Curatorial Programme is an evolution of the Jimei × Arles Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image, launched by Three Shadows and Chanel in 2021 to discover and support outstanding young Chinese curators and researchers in photography and moving image art. To date, the award has engaged over 200 exceptional curators in interdisciplinary research and curatorial practice within the realm of visual image.