Thirty-five installations made by more than 30 British and international artists lit up Durham for creative company Artichoke's Lumiere festival during the weekend (until November 20 2011)© Matthew Andrews
French artist Jaques Rival made the spectacular I Love Durham, invoking the city's position as a draw for tourists and a place with a dark industrial past
© Matthew Andrews
© Matthew Andrews
French fire alchemists Compagnie Carabosse contributed Spirit, an amazing installation inside Durham Cathedral and the surrounding grounds involving candles, threads, beacons and lanterns made from the vests traditionally worn by miners
© Matthew Andrews
© Matthew Andrews
Canadian artist Peter Lewis joined forces with Morecambe-based engineering firm Water Sculptures for Splash, an illuminated curtain of water falling from the Kingsgate Footbridge across the River Wear
© Matthew Andrews
© Matthew Andrews
Cédric Le Borgne created Les Voyagers (The Travellers), perching eerily-lit figures atop buildings and gardens in a series of works inspired by influential filmmaker Wim Wenders' classic, Wings of Desire
© Matthew Andrews
© Matthew Andrews
Ross Ashton, Robert Ziegler and John Del' Nero returned with Son et Lumiere, an illumination which included images of the Lindisfarne Gospels and had proved a huge hit at the 2009 festival
© Matthew Andrews
© Matthew Andrews
