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 3 best portfolio will be rewarded with access to the Italy Photo Award, the publication of their work on Yet Magazine, a workshop with professional artist in collaboration with Spazio Fotografia San Zenone.
Maria Pia Bernardoni is a photography curator with a special connection with Africa and particular interest in managing intercultural art projects that offer a different perspective of gender and migration issues, and help create positive change.
Since 2015 she is the curator of international exhibitions for the African Artists’ Foundation and LagosPhoto festival. In this capacity, she has co-curated the exhibition “Day your Lane” at Bozar Museum in Bruxelles and “Tear my Bra” at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2016. She also curated the exhibition“AfricAfrica” at Palazzo Litta in Milan in 2018. She has been part of the curatorial team for the past five editions of LagosPhoto Festival, in Nigeria from 2015 to 2019.
In parallel, Maria Pia has been developing projects around migration and hosting issues in Europe. She recently collaborated to Patrick Willocq’s project “My Story is a Story of Hope”, and directed the short film “If I Left My Country”, both shown at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2018.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 10am-1.20pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Claudio Composti was born in Milan in 1973. In 2009 he founded the mc2gallery with Vincenzo Maccarone and is still the gallery’s Art Director. Composti works as a curator and private consultant for collectors and as a scout for young photographers. He also organises exhibitions of the work of young Italian and foreign photographers of international fame – including Antoine D’Agata, Jacob Aue Sobol, and Michael Ackerman – in public spaces, at photography festivals and at Italian or international galleries and photography centres such as the Leica Italia galleries in Milan and Bologna. He has been a portfolio reviewer for many years to festivals including the Milan Vogue Photo Festival, the Lucca PhotoLux Festival, the Reggio Emilia Fotografia Europea, and the Festival Fotografico Europeo in Busto Arsizio and Les Rencontres d’Arles, France. In 2016 he founded Periscope Photoscouting, an online consultancy platform providing emerging photographers or artists using photography with the skills to edit existing or ongoing projects, and putting them in touch with curators, galleries and photo festivals.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 10am-1.20pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Laura Davì is an independent photo editor, tutor, journalist and portfolio viewer. Since beginning her professional career in 1995 she has worked with several magazines: Colors, Dove, Carnet, Psychologies and Collectible Dry, among others. She is the curator and photo editor at Expowall Gallery in Milan and a member of Yourpictureditor network. She teaches photography at the Chippendale Studio and at Bottega Immagine in Milan, Musa Fotografia in Monza and she is engaged in visual learning in various educational institutions. She is also a guest tutor at the Diciottoventicinque of Fotografia Europea 2020 project in Reggio Emilia.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 10am-1.20pm
Ángel Luis González Fernández is Director of PhotoIreland Festival, dedicated to stimulating a critical dialogue around Photography. The organisation runs The Library Project, a space in Dublin that hosts PhotoIreland’s Collection of photobooks, an Art bookshop, and a gallery. He is responsible for books such as ‘Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade’, New Irish Works, and TLP Editions. In 2019, PhotoIreland launched a public-facing project enquiring about Museums and Photography, ‘The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland’, that ran for a month as a 2000 m2 exhibitions space. The project will come back every year during July as part of PhotoIreland Festival, eventually becoming a fully fledged museum space.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 2.40pm-5.40pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Mélissa Jollivet is a journalist and photo editor of the weekly magazine Internazionale since 2000. With a degree in modern literature she moved to Rome from Marseille in 1999.
At Internazionale she focuses her photo research on in-depth articles ranging from reportage to conceptual photography with a special interest in photojournalism. For a year and a half she has been photo editor of Extra, a series of special issues by Internazionale. Now she is photo editor of Internazionale Kids, the monthly by Internazionale for children.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 10am-1.20pm and 2.40pm-5.40pm
Marcella Manni, founder of Metronom. She graduated in Philosopy at University of Bologna and in Museum Management at the Luiss Business School in Rome. In 2009 she earned a second-level University Master’s Degree in Philosophical Consultancy at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. She worked as curator of exhibitions at the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna, and as Head of the Communication Office at the MAR in Ravenna. She became then editor for the publishing house Damiani.
With Metronom she has curated, among others, exhibitions of artist Taisuke Koyama, Sanna Kannisto, Martina della Valle, Christto&Andrew and Kenta Cobayashi. She has promoted the LIVEstudio Residency Program, and since 2015 she has been directing the project Generazione Critica – an annual conference devoted to art criticism – a book series of the same name and the website generazionecritica.it. In 2017 she founded the Metronom Books publishing house and since 2018 she has been promoting Digital Video Wall, an exhibition project dedicated to video and digital art showcased in Metronom’s video wall. She is a professor at the Master on Contemporary Image of Fondazione Modena Arti Visive.
SATURDA, APRIL 18: 10am-1.20pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Since 2015 she has been part of Vogue Italia’s photography department.
She is a contributor to Vogue.it, photo editor for the PhotoVogue platform and, alongside Alessia Glaviano, she is a curator of the Photo Vogue Festival. Francesca also manages the production of Vogue Italia’s photographic exhibitions and creates digital contents for Vogue Italia’s Instagram account. In 2018 she curated a talk series about contemporary photography at the Affordable Art Fair (Milan), she co-curated the exhibition “Italian Panorama” at the Armani/Silos and was a juror of the Ooshot Award (Paris). Over the past few years Francesca has been a portfolio lecturer for the Blink Portfolio Review (New York), a juror of the Photolucida’s Critical Mass and collaborated with the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant. In 2019 Francesca took part in “Scouting for India”(Mumbai), the Vogue Talents’ project in collaboration with FAD International Academy, and she was a member of the jury of Fresh Eyes (GUP magazine). Francesca regularly collaborates with several photography festivals and schools as portfolio reviewer and lecturer.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 2.40pm-5.40pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Sara Munari was born in Milan but travels the world. She exhibits in Italy and Europe at galleries, festivals and museums of contemporary art. She is juror and portfolio reader in National Awards and Festivals. Travel around Italy to hold lectures, courses and portfolio reading. She writes four theory books on photography and publishes 4 of her photographs. She has a nice blog: saramunari.blog/
In 2019 she opens Musa Fotografia, a center for courses, exhibitions, including everything is related to photography, in Monza. She gets international prizes and awards. She is professor of History of Photography and Visual Communication at the Italian Institute of Photography and Language and storytelling in many Italian locations. She has fun with photography and she doesn’t understand why she wrote in the “third” person … maybe she pretends not to know herself.
SUNDAY, APRIL 19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Giuseppe Oliverio (Bologna, 1985) is an Italian entrepreneur and curator. In 2011 he moved to Buenos Aires to set up the PHmuseum and then in June 2012 its online platform – phmuseum.com. In 2015 he moved the project to London and in March 2020 he opened a sister venue in Bologna that runs workshops, talks and other events.
PHmuseum is also known for its Grants programme which gives out €35,000 a year in grants to chosen photographers and the chance to exhibit at international festivals and be published in noted publications such as Vogue Italia and the World Press Photo’s magazine Witness. Past grant winners have included Max Pinckers, Diana Markosian, Sanne De Wilde and Tomas Van Houtryve, and Erik Kessels, Kathy Ryan, Roger Ballen, François Hébel, and Sarah Leen have been among the programme’s judges.
Giuseppe has sat on the panels of international prizes such as the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward, UPI’s The Fence, and Happiness OnTheMove, and has worked as portfolio consultant to photography festivals such as Unseen, Photo Vogue Festival and Visa Pour L’Image.
In 2020 he supervised and published Familiar Stranger, PHmuseum’s first book on mobile phone photography, and co-curated its exhibition presentation at the Spazio Labo’ in Bologna.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 2.40pm-5.40pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Educated in Italy, in Political Science at Milano Università degli Studi, Donata Pizzi furthered her studies at John Cass School of Arts in London and West Surrey College of Art and Design, UK. Starting in 1980 Pizzi worked with photography and photographers as an archivist and picture editor for magazines and publishers; she was the head of the Roman branch of The Image Bank, later known as Getty Images. Subsequently she pursued a career as a free-lance photographer, working for international magazines and major Italian companies, producing books and exhibitions. Since 2014 she has built up a uniqueongoing collection of Italian women photographers. Collezione Donata Pizzi has recently been shown at the Milano Triennale in 2016–17, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome in 2018, and Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia in 2019.
SUNDAY, APRIL 19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Cecilia Pratizzoli, is the creator and founder of Italy Photo Award, national award for art photography, dedicated to the enhancement of Italian photographic culture, she is also founder of the Voglino Editorial Award.
Art Director and photographer, she actively collaborates with foundations, companies, in consulting and production of corporate projects and curates exhibitions. She devote herself to training activities in collaboration with schools of visual art accompanying the artistic research of young creatives, in the discovery of their identity and construction of the concept and layout of their publishing and exhibition project.
In 2018 he founded Home For Photography, House Platform that hosts projects focused on research and development of art photography. Artistic director, organizer and expert of events in the field of photographic art, she founded in 2012 and directed for five editions, Frame Foto Festival.
As part of her research, she carries out training courses, workshops and experiential workshops, dedicated to the person as an expert in training processes and pedagogist in the world of visual arts.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 2.40pm-5.40pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Alberto Prina only started to work as a professional photographer recently, even if he
considers himself a photographer since ever.
Passionate about philosophy and with photography always on his mind, he graduated in
physics. Yet, he could not postpone his longing anymore, so he founded the photo
association Gruppo Fotografico Progetto Immagine in 1989 and has co-ordinated its annual
Festival of Ethical Photography since he created it in 2009.
He collaborates with festivals, galleries, associations and schools in order to spread the
culture of photography. He organizes courses and workshops and he’s the artistic director of
an exhibit space close to Milan. He currently works as a reportage photographer and
photojournalist, developing projects in the field of photographic communication, multimedia
and collaborative photography.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 10am-1.20pm
Arianna Rinaldo is a freelance professional working with photography at a wide range. She is the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, the international photo festival in Tuscany, Italy. For almost 10 years she was also the director of OjodePez magazine, the only documentary photography quarterly published in Spain.
Arianna’s relationship with photography started in 1998 in New York, as Archive Director at Magnum Photos. Back in Italy in 2001, as picture editor for Colors magazine she commissioned international photographers to produce documentary projects all over the world.
Based in Milan from 2004 to 2011, Arianna has been a freelance curator for exhibits and a photo consultant for various publications, among which 4 years at D, the weekend supplement of one of Italy’s main daily, La Repubblica. She is a regular participant in portfolio reviews and jury panels worldwide, as well as speaker and teacher. She was part of the World Press Photo jury in 2009, Fotopres, Spain in 2012 and has been a Photolucida Critical Mass juror since 2009.
Saturday, April 18: 10am – 1.20pm
Paola Sammartano, professional journalist, is Italy’s correspondentof L’Œil de la Photographie, a French newspaper dedicated only to photography, and is a member of Stampa Estera Alta Italia. She has dealt with image, photography and iconographic communication in the most well-known national magazines of the sector. Author of monographs on the big names in photography, she has worked as editor and photoeditor for nature magazines, such as Mondo Sommerso, and for scientific, tourism and art magazines, also curating exhibitions and photographic events. As a photographer specializing in architecture and reportage, until the 2000s, she has produced innovative services and exhibitions, as well as documentation projects of the territory.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 10am-1.20pm and 2.40pm-5.40pm
She is photo editor for the daily La Repubblica, in charge of the national paper edition and some of the weekly thematic inserts.
She is interested in images, photography theory and art through planned labs, public art works and photo research. She has a BA in geography and a master from CFP Bauer in Milan. For many years she has worked as an assistant for Francesco Jodice.
As photographer she has done commissioned work for MuFoCo – Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea and for the Istituto Beni Culturali Emilia-Romagna. She has exhibited in Milan at CareOF and in Turin at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in the collective exhibition Altro dalle immagini. Da Guarene all’Etna 2014.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 10am-1.20pm and 2.40pm-5.40pm
Salvatore Vitale (b. 1986, Palermo, Italy) is a Swiss-based visual artist and editor. In his multi-layered artistic practice and research, Vitale’s work focuses on personal and social development, modern societies and power structures, visual politics and technological de-velopment, whilst making use of different media and multiple levels of visual narratives. His work has been awarded internationally, including the Foam Talent (2018), Punctum Award (2018), and Pro Helvetia Shanghai Research Grant (2019-2020).
Vitale’s work has been exhibited widely in museums and at photo festivals, with solo shows at the Swiss Foundation for Photography Winterthur (2018), Hamburg Trien-nale of Photography (2018). Other shows include Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam (2019), the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation (2019), OCAT Shenzhen (2018), Kibla Contempo-rary Art Space Maribor (2019), T3 Photo Festival Tokyo (2017) and Lianzhou Foto Festival (2018).
Vitale is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) where he leads the Transmedia Storytelling programme. He has led workshops worldwide and is a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), the
Paris College of Arts (PCA), the University of South Wales (USW) and the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) to name but a few. Vitale is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of YET magazine, a Swiss-based international photography magazine that focuses on the evolution of the photography practice within the contemporary art field.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 2.40pm-5.40pm
Duncan Wooldridge is an Artist, Writer and Curator, based in London, UK. He has a focus on photography’s relationship to contemporary art, photographic materiality and abstraction. He writes regularly for 1000 Words Magazine and FOAM, Art Monthly and Artforum. He is currently completing a book on the photograph as an experiment. In 2019, he curated the exhibition Moving The Image: Photography and its Actions for the Peckham 24 Festival. Previous exhibitions include John Hilliard: Not Black and White, and Anti-Photography. Duncan is the Course Director for Photography at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18: 2.40pm -5.40pm
SUNDAY, APRIL19: 10.20am-1.20pm
Saturday, April 18th: 10am–1.20pm and 2.40pm-5.40pm
Sunday, April 19th: 10.20am–1.20pm
Not all readers will be available both Saturday and Sunday, check the registrations table
Biblioteca Panizzi, Sala Sol Lewitt (1° floor)
via Farini 3 – Reggio Emilia
Each review will last up to 20 minutes.
It’s better to take printed portfolios, but you can also use digital media (electricity available)
Each review costs 35 € (VAT included)
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.
The invoice will arrive via email a few days after registration.
The review must be paid in advance and by credit card (PayPal system).
If unable to attend, the fee will not be refunded, however, it will be possible to replace the participant.
Each reviewer will report the best portfolio which will make up the shortlist. The three winners will be selected by Cecilia Pratizzoli, Salvatore Vitale and Walter Guadagnini.
The award, created for the enhancement and diffusion of Italian photographic culture, has the aim of bringing out young talents alongside established photographers, offering them an international panorama of visibility and opportunities in art centers, galleries, editorial offices and the best photographers agencies.
Pubblication on Yet Magazine
YET magazine is a Swiss based publication devoted to contemporary international photography. Established in 2012, with the aim to feature several different styles of photography, without any restriction in genre, medium, or theme. Along with the photographic series, we also publish reviews, in-depth articles and interviews with the key players of the sector
Workshop in collaboration with Spazio Fotografia San Zenone
A place for a workshop is available by April 2021. The program and available dates will be communicated as soon as possible. Spazio Fotografia San Zenone is an exhibition space and meeting place for those who approach the world of photography, offering basic and advanced courses, as well as specific workshops for those who want to expand their technical and artistic skills.
Info
info@fotografiaeuropea.it
