This document collects the proceedings of the PHOTON 2017 conference (International Conference on the Structure and the Interactions of the Photon, including the 22th International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions, and the International Workshop on High Energy Photon Colliders) held at CERN (Geneva) in May 2017. The latest experimental and theoretical developments on the topics of the PHOTON conference series are covered: (i) $gamma,gamma$ processes in e$^+$e$^-$, proton-proton (pp) and nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions at current and future colliders, (ii) $gamma$-hadron interactions in e$^pm$p, pp, and AA collisions, (iii) final-state photon production (including Standard Model studies and searches beyond it) in pp and AA collisions, and (iv) high-energy $gamma$-ray astrophysics. These proceedings are dedicated to the memory of Maria Krawczyk.