Italy-China 2022: in the Shanghai Metro, photography masters' shots of Unesco sites

Opening today at the People’s Square stop of the Shanghai Metro is the photo exhibition UN.IT. UNESCO Italy, on the occasion of theItaly-China Year of Culture and Tourism 2022.

Open until Sept. 30, 2022, the exhibition is sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate General for Public Diplomacy and the Ministry of Culture, UNESCO Office of the General Secretariat and ICCD Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation. The exhibition project, organized by theItalian Cultural Institute in Shanghai, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai, Shanghai Metro and Shanghai People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, aims to illustrate with auteur photographs the Italian cultural and natural heritage through the artistic languages of contemporaneity.

Twenty-nine auteur photographs are therefore on display, one for each of the first twenty-nine Italian sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List (1979-1998). All the photos were taken by well-known Italian photographers, including Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Luca Campigotto, Vincenzo Castella, Dario Coletti, Vittore Fossati, Gianni Berengo Gardin, William Guerrieri, Mimmo Jodice, Giuseppe Leone, and Luciano Romano. Also in the spaces of the People’s Square stop of the Shanghai Subway, a second exhibition project, will display another twenty-nine author photographs of the remaining twenty-nine Italian UNESCO sites (1998-2021).

The unpublished selection belongs to the Ministry of Culture’s collection of photographs, curated by the UNESCO Office of the General Secretariat and the ICCD Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, which brings together 220 works by the most significant authors of Italian photography, from the best-known masters of black and white to young emerging talents, invited to interpret the richness of Italy’s cultural heritage.

From Rome to Pompeii, from Venice to the Amalfi Coast, from the Dolomites to the hills of Tuscany: monuments, historic centers, archaeological areas and landscapes that tell through photography the wonders of Italy’s heritage.

UN.IT. Unesco Italia is an ambitious, ongoing project that envisions enriching the collection with photographic campaigns for each new Italian site included in the UNESCO World Heritage list.

Italy-China 2022: in the Shanghai Metro, photography masters' shots of Unesco sites

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