In low-dimensional systems, for example in dye-solution filled optical microcavities with a distance between the resonator mirrors in the wavelength range where the situation becomes two-dimensional, also photon gases with tunable chemical potential can be realized. Such a photon gas in many respects behaves like a gas of material particles. One consequence of the tunable chemical potential is that at high phase space densities then Bose-Einstein condensation of photons is observed.