Rencontres d'Arles festival: the best photographs of 2014 – in pictures

Ruined Window, Seoul, 1956. Photograph: Youngsoo Han

Walé Asongwaka Takes Off. Photograph: Patrick Willocq

Diver, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2012. Photograph: Adrien Pezennec

Crowd. Press Dept. 140 West St, New York City. (Avec l'aimable autorisation de Blind Pirate, New York). Photograph: WM Hunt

Sema Bekirovic, Koet. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Sema Bekirovic

AR-127-4346-THA. Toned silver gelatine print, c.1935. Photographer unknown

Barrier preventing access to the exclusion zone. Photograph: Benoît Aquin

Handmade curio box inset with portraits of an African-American family, silver prints, woven cigarette wrappers, 1970s, American. Photograph: Daile Kaplan

Tilda Swinton, 2014, screen capture, 2010. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Katerina Jebb

Children and War: The Troops Take a Well-Earned Rest, Enjoying Barley Sugar Distributed by the Photographer, Paris, 5 September 1915. Autochrome. (Courtesy of the Collection Société française de photographie). Photograph: Léon Gimpel

Kechun Zhang, Buddha in Coal Yard, Ningxia Province, 2011. Photograph: Kechun Zhang

Style, 2013. Series produced in BMW residence at musée Nicéphore Niépce, in Chalon-sur-Saône. (Courtesy of the artists.). Photograph: Mazaccio & Drowilal

She's Out Of My Life, Series Best Friend of a Dog, 2013. Series produced at the BMW residence at musée Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône. Courtesy of the artists. Photograph: Mazaccio & Drowilal

From the series Little Party Dress. Photograph: Delphine Schacher

From the series Little Party Dress. Photograph: Delphine Schacher