Photo.circle, after the success of the first international photography festival in Nepal, Photo Kathmandu, last year, is now gearing up for its second iteration. The festival is slated to take place in Patan starting October 21 and will continue for two weeks.

Photo Kathmandu, the newest addition to the international photography festival circuit, calls out for applications from artists for this year’s festival. The fest invites six international artists to Nepal for a period of four weeks to come together and explore intersections between photography, sound, video, writing, performance, poetry and other mediums. According to the organisers, photo.circle, the programme encourages artists to experiment, collaborate and respond to each other and discover Patan.

The selected artists will live together in Patan, and work with the residency curator Mabubur Rahman (Bangladesh) to create a site-specific body of work that will be included in the main exhibition programme of Photo Kathmandu 2016. Photo Kathmandu has chosen to go without a theme this year, but will feature works that speak to ideas of resilience and revival.

The festival attempts to create connections between the city, its people, its history, and its dreams and aspirations, organisers say; it serves as an alternative platform for conversations between visual storytellers and local audiences. And with it, the fest aims to promote Nepal as a vibrant cultural destination and to support the revival of tourism in Nepal—tourism is an industry that is still serving as a major contributor to the Nepali economy despite being severely affected by the earthquakes and fuel crisis of 2015.

The festival will host exhibitions, slide shows, talks by artists, workshops—and a mixed-media residency that will bring artists together to respond to and converse with the historic city of Patan, where the festival will be anchored. The application deadline is on July 25.