The 14th edition of Fotografia Europea will take place in Reggio Emilia from April 12 to June 9

by Redazione , published on 17/02/2019
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The 14th edition of the Fotografia Europea festival will be held in Reggio Emilia from April 12 to June 9, 2019. The 2019 theme: Ties. Intimacy, relationships, new worlds.

Ties.Intimacy, relationships, new worlds is the theme of the 2019 edition of Fotografia Europea, curated by the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani (composed of Marco Belpoliti, Vanni Codeluppi, Marina Dacci, Marzia Faietti, Walter Guadagnini, Gerhard Wolf) under the artistic direction of Walter Guadagnini. The fourteenth edition of the festival, which will take place as usual in Reggio Emilia, from April 12 to June 9, 2019, goes deep into human relationships in all their extension, from the affective one, more naturally private, to the social one, more naturally acted out in the public sphere. The bond is built on a relationship that tends to transform both subjects. From the “I” one moves to the “we,” and from the “we” one moves to the “us,” understanding the other from oneself within one’s own horizon, not just an ideal one: the definition of these bonds defines the society in which each of us lives.

This is an extraordinarily topical issue, whether one relates it to the past (how much have the very concept of ties to territory, space and people changed the phenomena of urbanization still taking place on a global scale?) or whether one declines it to the future, to the evolution within a society such as the one that is being shaped in this millennium (no longer science fiction but everyday reality, the link with machines, with artificial intelligences forces further reflection and revisions of the known).

From these premises endless conceptual and visual elaborations can be articulated, which from a photographic point of view can also be summarized in the title of a recent volume devoted to the latest developments in photography, André Gunthert’s The Shared Image: There where the idea of a photograph that modifies its own nature by having sharing as an intrinsic element (a datum this relative to the new world created by technology) also profoundly affects the concept of intimacy (sometimes in a dramatically negative sense), so as to contain within itself, once again, the reflection on the meaning of the term bond even in today’s society.

For all information you can visit the official website of the event.

The 14th edition of Fotografia Europea will take place in Reggio Emilia from April 12 to June 9
The 14th edition of Fotografia Europea will take place in Reggio Emilia from April 12 to June 9


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