Photolunch is a more informal and convivial portfolio reading, a format designed to encourage direct encounters between photographers and professionals in the photography world.

Each table brings together a photographer or professional and nine participants around a shared lunch. In this relaxed and dynamic context, a space for open dialogue is born: the artist (or professional) recounts their journey, work, and experience in an informal chat. Subsequently, the participants will be able to present their work and receive feedback through a shared portfolio reading, stimulating an open exchange of ideas, points of view, and suggestions.

Photolunch is therefore much more than just a lunch: it is a space for dialogue, inspiration, and networking, where professional discussion intertwines with conviviality, creating an ideal environment for growing projects and relationships.

🕘 Friday 1 May  h: 12.30 – 15.00

📍 Polveriera, piazzale Oscar Romero, 1/I – Reggio Emilia
đŸ’¶ Price: 90 €

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TABLE ONE
Photolunch with Arianna Arcara
photographer Cesura

Arianna Arcara was born in Monza in 1984. After studying photography, she co-founded the photography collective Cesura, which focuses on documentary photography and its different approaches, and the publishing house Cesura Publish of which she is co-art director.
Arianna Arcara’s artistic practice investigates the meaning and ever-changing form of “boundaries”, whether natural, urban, human, or cultural. The common goal of many of its long-term projects is to move along one of these boundaries through the development of collaborative processes. Arcara questions how – and if – her photography can impact the people and stories she follows, constantly reflecting and seeking new ways to engage and emancipate her subjects. Her works have been exhibited at Triennale/Milan, Le Bal Space/Paris, MoCP/Chicago, Kulturhuset/Stockholm, Deichtorhallen/Hamburg, Noble Peace Center/Oslo, Palazzo Reale/Milan, Maxxi/Rome, Camera/Turin.



©Ilaria Magliocchetti Lombi

©Ilaria Magliocchetti Lombi

TABLE TWO
Photolunch with Renata Ferri
photo editor e artistic director of Cortona on the move

Renata Ferri was born in Rome and lives in Milan.
A journalist, since 2005 she has been photoeditor-in-chief of iO Donna il femminile of Corriere della Sera.  From 2010 to 2018 she also held the same role for Amica, the women’s monthly magazine of the same publishing group, Rcs Mediagroup.
From 1991 to 2005 she directed the photographic production of Contrasto with a team of more than 40 authors.  She teaches in university institutes, photography schools and specialized courses dedicated to them.  She has participated in numerous Italian and international juries, including two editions of the World Press Photo (2011 and 2012). From 2010 to 2015 she kept a blog of photographic stories on il post.it. Since 2024 she has been writing constantly on iO Donna e Amica, paper and web, about art, photography, feminism.  As an independent curator, she has collaborated with Italian and international institutions, including the MAXXI, the Royal Palace, the Gallerie d’Italia, and the Vittoriano Complex.
She has published numerous texts and monographs, including, most recently, Guardami come se mi amassi – Look at me like you love me, Allemandi 2025.
Since 2026 she has been the new Artistic Director of the COTM Photography Festival in Cortona. She curates editorial and exhibition projects of individual authors and collectives. 



TABLE THREE
Photolunch with Alex Majoli
photographer Magnum

Alex Majoli (Ravenna, Italy, 1971) is an Italian photographer.
Alex Majoli’s work focuses on the human condition and theatricality that arise to us on a daily basis.
Alex Majoli’s career began after photographing the closure of a well-known mental asylum on the island of Leros in Greece, this work becoming his first monograph “Leros”. This project was born from an interest in the theories of Franco Basaglia, a pioneer of modern thinking on the treatment of mental illnesses, famous for having succeeded in closing psychiatric hospitals in Italy.
Majoli’s interest in psychiatric care led him to continue his work in Brazil, where a project began that would last twenty years, entitled “Tudo Bom”. This work is an exploration of complex Brazilian society and pays particular attention to the more ‘dark’ side of this country.
For many years Majoli worked as a photojournalist, and the experience he gained in the field led him to explore the idea of the theatricality of life. His role as a photographer leads people to become actors of themselves, which Majoli tries to exasperate by dramatically using artificial lights. His photos become scenes from a film where people, through their performance, express their being as if they were on a stage. Looking at these photographs one can only think whether they are real moments or fiction. The fine line between reality and theatre, documentary and art, leads Majoli to return to places where the human condition is questioned. Even in the most tragic miseries Majoli manages to uncover the theatre, the pride and above all the magnificence of the human spirit.
Majoli lives in New York. He has been a member of Magnum photos since 2001 and is represented by the Howard Greenberg gallery.



©Albert Sten

©Albert Sten

TABLE FOUR
Photolunch with Tony Thorimbert
photographer

Reporter, portraitist, fashion photographer, and art director, capable of continually reinventing his relationship with photography and often ahead of his time and trends, Toni Thorimbert – Swiss by origin but raised in Milan – began photographing at a very young age, documenting the social and political tensions of the 1970s. In the 1980s, his close collaboration with the most innovative periodicals of the time such as Max, Amica, Moda and King was fundamental in defining the new visual standard of the time.
The 1990s marked his maturity as an author with editorial collaborations for international magazines: Details, Mademoiselle, Wallpaper, Brutus, and in Italy for GQ, Rolling Stone, Riders, Io Donna, Style, Wired and the creation of prestigious advertising campaigns.

In 2017 and 2018 he was the artistic director of the Thorimbert Fashion Experience and Fondamenta, two workshop courses created in collaboration with Leica Akademie. He taught photographic language at the IED in Milan, the Studio Marangoni Foundation in Florence, the Fotografia Foundation in Modena and the Raffles Master of Photography in Milan.
Since 2017, he has been part of the RICORDI STAMPATI photography collective, an initiative created to enhance and make the professional portrait experience accessible.
In 2020 he was awarded the Arturo Ghergo Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2021, he founded “School Thorimbert” a container of highly customizable courses, lessons, conferences, and workshops.
In 2024 he was part of the curators’ committee of the “Deloitte Photo Grant”.

His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including:
1999 New York, Duggall Underground: “TIES”.
2000 Varese, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea “TRANSFERT” curated by Filippo Maggia.
2014 Roma, Galleria del Cembalo, “Doppio gioco” (with Giovanni Gastel) curated by Mario Peliti and Giovanna Calvenzi

2019, Savignano sul Rubicone, SI Fest, “Seduction of Photography” curated by Denis Curti
2026, Torino, Exposed, Camera. “Donne in vista” from an idea by Luca Beatrice, curated by Walter Guadagnini.










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🔗In collaboration with La Polveriera