Last November Paris again became the centre of the world of photography, at the same time hosting both the Month of Photography and the Paris Photo fair. While the fair - thanks to the number of participating galleries and visitors, its accompanying events, excellent promotion and above all the diversity and quality of the presented photos - surpassed its main competitor, New York's AIPAD, the circum- stances surrounding the Month of Photography once again reflected this festival's gradual decline from fame as the most important photography festival in the world. Although the organisers of the Month of Photography emphasised the festival's connection with the new (and unfortunately so far not very attractive) festivals in Berlin and Vienna on its posters and catalogue cover, this was really little more than a formal gesture, since there was minimal exchange of exhibits among the festivals and there were probably very few people who saw all three festivals within one month. Another factor that hardly increases the proclaimed worldliness of the Month of Photography is its stubborn insistence on French as the only language of the festival catalogue, while the organisers of Paris Photo have published all catalogue texts in French and English since the very beginning and last year's Arles festival even published a separate English-language catalogue.(full article is available after purchasing a subscription - not available now)