Sebastião Salgado

The Istanbul Cultural Road Festival, the 13th stop of the Turkish Cultural Road Festival, organized this year in 16 cities by the Culture and Tourism Ministry to contribute to Türkiye's brand value, kicked off at the weekend.

The exhibitions that opened on Sept. 28 as part of the festival attract great interest from art lovers.

French-Greek journalist and entertainer Nikos Aliagas has, to date, been largely overlooked in Greece as a skilled photographer. However, the celebrity host has been fascinated with photography since childhood and last year held a show at the Conciergerie venue in Paris titled "Body & Soul."

Another year of courageous documentary filmmaking is about to reveal itself: the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century has officially started and it promises to offer some of the most striking samples of the genre.