The 6th Lianzhou Photography Festival will open December 3 in Lianzhou, northwest Guangdong province, according to an announcement Wednesday in Beijing by the organizer.

With the theme Is the World Real?, the scale of this year's Lianzhou Festival will be largely downsized and aims to offer audiences high-quality exhibitions, said Duan Yuting, artistic director of the festival.

"There are currently many photography festivals around the world, among which a lot of are being criticized due to the ever-increasing scale and degrading quality," Duan told the Global Times. "This time we are trying our best to make every exhibition exciting."

At the 20,000-square-meter exhibition venue, which consists of the Candy Factory, Granary Factory and Shoe Factory, there will be a series of featured exhibitions dedicated to both established and young photographers from China and abroad, such as renowned French philosopher and photographer Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007), famous American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin and Patrick Zachmann, a member of Magnum Photos since the 1990s.

The festival will be the first time audiences in China will have access to original works of Baudrillard, whose philosophical ideas and photographic works on post-modernism and post-structuralism have had a widespread influence throughout the world. More than 50 of his works will be on show, providing a great opportunity to observe this great man's works, up close.

Aside from international established photographers, the festival will present some of the best domestic photographers and artists, such as Liu Xiangcheng, Zhang Dali and Yang Zhenzhong.

Works by young photographers include several who have never received formal photographic educations.

Fei Dawei, general curator of the festival, said that he found the young photographers on the Internet and was amazed by their works at the first sight.

"Maybe photographers can be inspired from their works, without much emphasis on skill, these works look pure and beautiful, with tremendous visual impact," Fei said.