The Korean superstar boyband is wrapping up the European leg of their Arirang album tour in the French capital before dates in North and South America. FRANCE 24 takes a look at the K-pop phenomenon’s meteoric rise.
In this edition: Tangier has become an open-air art gallery as the Moroccan port city hosts its first international photography festival. Also, we meet an artist whose striking images embrace the codes of classical portraits, while subverting their choice of sitter. Ayana Jackson is showing her work at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, and we hear her perspective on questions of race, representation and self-image. Finally, the glamourous world of Waacking has been in the spotlight in Paris, with both battles and performances in the Grand Palais as part of the ‘Paris l’été’ festival.
