The La Gacilly Photo Festival has moved from Britanny in France last year to Baden in Austria this year. The theme Orient! focuses on photographers from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan – “photographers who have always chosen to break conventions in order to develop an innovative style and look at people and gods with humanism infused in them,” according to the festival organisers. Entitled Licht und Schatten (Light and Shadow), Abbas’ black and white photography presents “incessant collisions between reality and myth, derision and fanaticism, chaos and beauty, gentleness and sadness, and shadow and light”. The festival features over 1,500 photographs and stretches over 7 kilometers, divided into a garden route and a city route, starting from the visitor center at Brusatti Square.