Rome Photography launches photo call to chronicle life during coronavirus

Rome Photography, TWM Factory, Il Fotografo magazine and the Lodi Ethical Photography Festival, in collaboration with The Walkman Magazine are launching a photo call titled Life in the Time of Coronavirus.

The theme, of course, is the Coronavirus that has spread rapidly from one part of the globe to another, revolutionizing the lives of much of humanity in a matter of weeks.

Fear, irony, bewilderment, disbelief, anger, fatality, aggression, generosity and many other feelings are moving each of us and entire populations to assume or follow private and social behaviors that are conveyed very quickly by the official media but especially by social media, which act as a wide and very high amplifier in everyone’s mind and emotions.

The isolation of individuals and entire nations produces immediate economic effects, but yet to be explored from a social, anthropological and emotional point of view. The organizers are animated by the will and desire to bear witness through the photographic art that it popularizes and promotes, to what photography has always been: the visual medium par excellence that tells with immediacy and power moments of private life and major social events.

Today technology has made this possibility accessible to everyone. With this awareness we wish to transform the infinite feelings and conditioning that accompany this difficult period into a great opportunity that breaks down limits, overrides walls, telling and expressing in many different languages, but contextually with a common language, that of photography, all that is happening in the different countries of the world and among the many peoples who inhabit it, with the many cultural, social and religious implications that characterize us.

The call categories are: SHORT STORY, a category for which the work submitted must be a project composed of a minimum of 6 maximum 10 photographs, and SINGLE SHOT, in which the participant can submit one or more single images (even at different times). Any author can participate in both categories.

Participation in the Call is free of charge. Those who have reached the age of majority (18 years old) professional and amateur photographers, foreigners and Italians, may join the initiative.

The scientific committee consists of:

- Gianni Pinnizzotto Director of Graffiti;

- Luciano del Castillo Picture editor ANSA;

- For Roma Fotografia Roberto Huner and Alex Mezzenga;

- For TWM Factory Riccardo Ferranti;

- For THE PHOTOGRAPHER Giovanni Pelloso;

- For The Lodi Ethical Photography Festival Alberto Prina;

- For The Walkman Magazine Ginevra Corso.

The images selected by the scientific committee will participate in a collective and traveling Photography Exhibition starting with the next Rome Photography event and within the Lodi Ethical Photography Festival.

Selected works will be published in IL FOTOGRAFO magazine with a critical text by the editorial board in other newspapers

The Call organization also reserves the right to use the images submitted during the “collective narrative” for the purpose of the same promotion, through online publication, print publication, etc.

Image copyright and any other rights remain the prerogative of the participating photographer.

To read the rules carefully, fill out the entry form and send the images you want to submit, please visit the site you will find at this link.

Rome Photography launches photo call to chronicle life during coronavirus

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