About

fOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA since 2006

Fotografia Europea is an international cultural festival dedicated to contemporary photography.

The festival, created in 2006, is promoted by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia and it won Photo Festival of the Year at the Lucie Awards 2022 in New York.

 

Fotografia Europea uses photography as a tool to reflect upon the complexity of the contemporary living following the lesson of the local photographer Luigi Ghirri, a prominent figure in the late ‘900s photography’s renewal, whose archive is stored in the city.

The festival takes place in different locations of the city, both public and private, formal and informal, and it consists of a central core of exhibitions among which new ad hoc commissioned productions, related to a specific theme identified every year by the Scientific Committee.
The exhibitions are accompanied by a rich program of events, conferences, screenings, workshops, portfolio reviews and site specific performances.

 

The program is also enriched by the OFF circuit: the free and independent section of Fotografia Europea, that springs from the spontaneous initiative of individuals, galleries, associations and public and private institutions, and that offers exhibitions and events all over the territory.
Fotografia Europea is also an ongoing project: since its first edition it has acquired more than 1,000 works, which are available on-line and stored in the photo library of the Biblioteca Panizzi.

Fondazione Palazzo Magnani

 

Organization office
corso Garibaldi, 31
42121 Reggio Emilia
ph. + 39 0522 444446
info@fotografiaeuropea.it

 

Press office
Stefania Palazzo
ph. + 39 0522 44 44 09
s.palazzo@palazzomagnani.it

Elvira Ponzo
ph. + 39 0522 44 44 20
e.ponzo@palazzomagnani.it