A Swiss Lakeside Biennale of Photography, as the Guardian's Picture Desk Sees It

The Guardian has published a picture essay from Images Vevey, the photography biennale held in the Swiss lakeside town of Vevey, now in its tenth edition. The paper's global head of photography, Fiona Shields, made the selection, drawing on the fifty artworks on display. The essay is presented under the title 'We Are Family'.

Vevey is a small town on Lake Geneva, and the biennale is built around work installed in the town rather than in a single hall. That model — exhibitions distributed through streets, gardens and public buildings — is the one the Guardian's photographs describe, and it is the model that has made the event a fixture in the international photography calendar.

The Guardian's framing of the edition is thematic rather than national. The paper introduces the selection as photographs about family, and its picture desk, rather than a critic, chose what to show. The essay is published in the paper's art and design section.