Arles photography festival review: who needs big names when you’ve got cute animals and alien abductions?

It’s the world’s most prestigious photography show, but Les Rencontres de la Photographie really flies thanks to the jaw-dropping work of eccentrics, amateurs and complete unknowns • The best of Arles 2026 – in pictures On 16 June 1963, a mechanic from Albuquerque named Paul Villa was invited – via telepathic messages from an alien crew – to photograph their spaceship. The result was an image of the flying object in the sky. Villa’s account is similar to that of a Swiss man, Billy Meier, who saw his first flying saucer aged five, and has taken more than 1,400 photographs of them since. One of

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