An important occasion for professional and amateur photographers to know influential personalities of photography, in order to receive advices and suggestions. A chance to promote your own work and to strengthen your career.

The best portfolio will be rewarded with a publication on Il Fotografo.

🕘 Saturday, May 2nd 10.30am – 1.00pm / 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Sunday, Mat 3rd 10.00am – 12.00pm
Not all reviewers will be available both Saturday and Sunday, check the registrations table

📍 Biblioteca Panizzi, Sala Sol Lewitt (1° piano)
via Farini 3 – Reggio Emilia

💶 Each review costs 39 € and will last up to 20 minutes

 INFO

→ It’s better to take printed portfolios, but you can also use digital media (electricity available)

→ Each participant can register for one or more review of his choice according to availability. In any case, it will not be possible to purchase more than one reading with the same reviewer.

→ If unable to attend, the fee will not be refunded, however, it will be possible to replace the participant.

→ Online registration will be possible until Tuesday 28 April.  Any available slots can be purchased directly at the Panizzi Library on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 of May.

AWARD

The jury, composed of all the reviewers, will select the best portfolio, which will be rewarded with publication on the website of Il Fotografo as well as publication on the website of Fotografia Europea.

Those wishing to take part in the selection must give to the secretariat their photographic project in a digital version (with a USB key/hard disk for PC).

info:
info@fotografiaeuropea.it

© Vanessa Vettorello

© Vanessa Vettorello

Rica Cerbarano
independent curator

Rica Cerbarano is responsible for curating, writing, and coordinating photography-related projects. Her research focuses primarily on the relationship between photography, public space, and collaborative practices. She just released “The Billboard Image – In, Around, and About” (Revue Faire, 2026). She is the co-founder of the Kublaiklan collective, which explores widespread ways of interacting with photography through exhibitions and educational programs. Since 2022 she has collaborated with Il Giornale dell’Arte, where she currently holds the role of Guest Curator of Annual Photography Reports.

Francesca Filippini Pinto
independent curator

Currently an independent curator and art advisor specialised in photography and contemporary art, Francesca Filippini Pinto began her career in the arts as Director of Development for The Photographers’ Gallery in London. She was then General Manager for Christie’s South Kensington and lately Global Gallery and Retail Director for Magnum Photos.
Francesca has curated numerous exhibitions, including “Maurizio Anzeri – Lesson One” at the Italian Cultural Institute in London and “Landscape (Re) Imagined” at the Riding House Street Gallery. She collaborates with several artists and foundations, including Almudena Romero, Bettina Von Zwehl, photographer Eve Arnold’s Summer, and is a regular speaker on photography at international art fairs.
She’s currently President of the Bomb Factory Art Foundation, a charity that provides affordable studio space to emerging London artists and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Foundling Museum.

©Albert Sten

©Albert Sten

Kristyna Müller director of The Center for Photography in Stockholm

Kristyna Müller has been the Director of The Center for Photography in Stockholm Sweden since 2019. She has previously worked as a curator at Haninge Konsthall. She holds an MA in Curating from Stockholm University and a BcA in still photography from FAMU, Prague. She has been on the jury for the Lennart af Petersens award and has curated numerous exhibitions on photography.

Luca Panaro
art critic and curator

Luca Panaro is an art critic and curator, living and working in Milan. Founder of Chippendale Studio and the Dummy Photobook archive, he is the artistic director of Centrale Festival and Zenato Academy. A professor of History of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, he is considered one of the leading scholars of the work of Franco Vaccari, to whom he has dedicated exhibitions and the book L’occultamento dell’autore, recently republished by Seipersei Edizioni. He has curated various exhibition projects on photographic images in Italy and abroad.
http://www.lucapanaro.net




Giovanni Pelloso
editorial director of “Il Fotografo“

Giovanni Pelloso, journalist and photography critic for Corriere della Sera for the weekly ViviMilano and for the newspaper’s pages, is staff editor of Il Fotografo (Sprea publisher) and a teacher of the master’s degree in photography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Milan). Co-author of the World Dictionary of Photography (Rizzoli/Contrasto, 2002), he deals with the Sociology of Consumption and Advertising, between Theory and Practice. A contract professor, since 2005 he has been teaching and researching at the Faculty of Communication and Entertainment Sciences of IULM University in Milan. He is a research associate at the Civic Aquarium of Milan.
In recent years he has curated exhibitions of Silva Lelli and Roberto Masotti “A Poem”, Greg Gorman’s “Beyond the Portrait”, Giuseppe Mastromatteo’s “Humanscape”, Alain Laboile’s “Le Temps Retrouvé”, Gian Paolo Barbieri “Polaroids and More” and Niccolò Biddau “Le forme riveted” at the 29 Arts in Progress Gallery in Milan. On the occasion of Photo London (Somerset House, May 2019), he curated the exhibition proposal of the 29 Arts in Progress Gallery. The latest curation is linked to the exhibition “On Seduction” (23 September 2020 – 31 March 2021 – 29 Arts in Progress Gallery) with Giuseppe Mastromatteo, Tony Meneguzzo and Rankin.

Donata Pizzi
collector and editor

After graduating in Political Science from the State University of Milan, Donata Pizzi worked in photography as an editor for the L’Espresso archive, head of the Rome office of Image Bank/Getty Images, and as an iconographic coordinator for Giunti Editore magazines.
As a freelance photographer she has worked for numerous national and international magazines and newspapers. She then dedicated herself to research projects, creating books and exhibitions: The Gold of the Circus, Oltremare, Passage to the Modern, Metaphysical Cities, Rome in Africa, Zero Intolerance. She has exhibited her works in Italy and abroad (Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow, Minsk, Buenos Aires).
Since 2014, she has dedicated herself to promoting Italian photography by creating a collection focused on the work of photographers and artists active since 1965. The collection of photographs and photographic books is now set up in Rome in a dedicated space.
collezionedonatapizzi.com

©Antonio Cama

©Antonio Cama

Daria Scolamacchia
photo editor and curator

Photo editor and curator, Daria Scolamacchia collaborates with Internazionale magazine and is coordinator of the Photography Department at IED (European Institute of Design) in Rome, where she teaches Design Methodology and Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts. She also works as an archive producer and documentary researcher in the field of cinema and directed the documentary series Ossi di Seppia for RaiPlay.

From 2013 to 2018, she worked at Fabrica, a communication research centre, as coordinator of the photography department and editorial consultant, overseeing the production of books and exhibitions.




©Giulia Hrvatin

©Giulia Hrvatin

Chiara Capodici
curator e book designer

Chiara Capodici works in the field of photography since 2005, focusing on exhibitions and books design and on education. She served as assistant artistic director of Fotografia – Festival Internazionale di Roma between 2006-08. From 2009 to 2016, she was part of the duo 3/3 – studio di progettazione fotografica.
In January 2017 she opened Leporello, a bookshop devoted to photobooks. Since 2020 she collaborates with La Babuch. In 2023 she opened the small publishing house Leporello books.




Yann Linsart
publisher, graphic designer e art director

Yann Linsart is a publisher, graphic designer, and art director with a focus on book design. After founding the online magazine The Viewer and designing around 100 books, he founded the publishing house Palais Books in Arles together with Delphine Manjard.