The 2022 edition of Milan Photofestival from Sept. 14 to Oct. 31

The seventeenth edition of Milano Photofestival, the annual art photography event promoted by AIF - Associazione Italiana Foto & Digital Imaging, will take place from September 14 to October 31, 2022. For the third consecutive time, the appointment is set in the fall instead of the historic spring period, due to the uncertainty related to the Covid release.

The intention is to once again stage, together with all the key players in the world of photography, a range of exhibitions and initiatives to be experienced in person, as well as in virtual mode, confirming the centrality of an event that has long been a fundamental reference of national photography.

The widespread festival will involve art galleries, museums, stores, public and private exhibition spaces in the Milan metropolitan area and some neighboring Lombard provinces, with the aim of expanding to other regions as well.

The theme chosen by the organizing committee for Photofestival 2022 is Recommencing from Images. Investigations into reality and inner gazes. The complexity of the period we are living in has required each of us to change our behaviors and the way we operate, and never before has photography played a fundamental role in our lives, helping us to explore the articulated reality around us.

“We are coming out of a situation of general dismay where for a while we lost our usual points of reference and struggled to find them again, repeating to ourselves, even without really believing it, that only beauty could have saved the world”-comments Roberto Mutti, artistic director of Photofestival. “Net of so much, too much rhetoric (remember the ’we will come out better’?) it is instead true that, as soon as the sky began to clear a little, photographers - who in many cases had limited themselves to framing metaphysical urban landscapes desolately devoid of life - resumed producing projects capable of projecting them and us into a new dimension whose importance we had perhaps forgotten: that of the creative will that gives meaning to life. In other words, of normality. Here, starting again from images to be produced, analyzed, exhibited, and appreciated is a beautiful signal that we at Photofestival share and, of course, promote. The signals coming to us from the world of photography are encouraging and point to two major trends that are equally interesting. On the one hand, there is an emerging desire to observe reality with different eyes as if, having emerged from darkness, we need to get used to the light again to rediscover what we had not sufficiently appreciated before. On the other there is the need to cast a glance inside ourselves not to get lost in an intimist subjectivism but to recover a deep reflection on being photographers and the consequent need to interpret the world around us.”

As always, the festival program will include, alongside the exhibitions, a series of collateral initiatives such as workshops, screenings, portfolio readings, and meetings with the authors.

Also confirmed is the third edition of “The Bound Images” Award to the best photographic book of the year, held to compare the different types of publishing products that publishers and authors offer to the public. The Notice of Competition will be available on the event website.

For all information, you can visit the event’s official website.

Pictured: Nicolo Quirico, The Becoming of Squares, photographic print on collage of book pages (2021)

The 2022 edition of Milan Photofestival from Sept. 14 to Oct. 31

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