The annual Rencontres d’Arles photography festival is due to take over the town of Arles, in the South of France this summer, for its 49th instalment. Opening at 30 venues across the city, in public spaces, galleries, museums, the festival’s programme maps out the world of photography, spanning both historic and contemporary artistic practices.

The overarching topic at this year’s festival will be ‘Back to the Future’, providing a thematic springboard from which photographers explored themes as varied as concepts surrounding the political events and the legacy of the year 1968, transhumanism, and America through the ages, from Robert Frank’s The Americans to Trump’s ‘Make America great again!’ rhetoric. As the festival’s director, Sam Stourdzé, writes, “Photography is often the best‐placed medium for registering all the shocks that remind us the world is changing, sometimes right before our eyes.”

Magnum Photos will be well represented at this year’s fair, with a number of photographers’ work included in the programme. The full list of events can be viewed below.