Fotografia Calabria Festival Award 2025

The selected photographer will receive a €3,000 cash prize, production and setting up of the exhibition, and publication in the 2025 Fotografia Calabria Festival’s catalog.

Overview

Contestants are invited to interpret the topic of the 4th edition Shared Roots: Places, by proposing photographic projects that reflect on one or more of the following aspects. Everyday Places: spaces that we live on a daily basis, which belong to our individual or collective history, that we want to document, celebrate, and crystallize, or that we have taken for granted, only to suddenly rediscover them. Popular Places: locations that embody images that everyone knows and are expected to be seen constantly the same (e.g., the gondola in Venice, the sunflower field in Tuscany, the snowy village at Christmas). How can we narrate them in a different way? Imaginary Places: spaces that exist only in the imagination of those who create them but resonate ideas and widespread visions.

The aim of this edition of the festival is to encourage participants to reflect on how Shared Roots not only connect us to places but also define the way we live them and how we narrate them. How do the invisible roots of a place that lay in the past, in our imagination, and in our culture, influence our perception of it? How can we bring out these roots, making the invisible visible, and telling the stories of places in a new and authentic way?

Practical Info

Submissions must include a PDF with the project statement and, if available, captions for the photographs, a PDF file with a brief bio, 10-25 images, and a photographer's portrait photo.

The selected photographer will receive a €3,000 cash prize, production and setting up of the exhibition, and publication in the 2025 Fotografia Calabria Festival’s catalog.

The jury is composed of Elisa Medde, Elena Boille, Gabriella Macchiarulo, Marco Pisciottani, Francesca Marani, Ilaria Sponda, and Anna Catalano.

About Fotografia Calabria Festival

Fotografia Calabria Festival was born in 2021 and is the first widespread festival of photography locaded in Calabria. Organized and promoted by the Associazione Pensiero Paesaggio, it’s conveyed as a space, not only as a physical one, in which to reflect on photography as a language of the contemporary era, able to grasp all its changes and transformations, but also to highlight the various social, cultural and artistic declinations. For this reason, every year Fotografia Calabria Festival is dedicated to a different theme and it hosts projects, even unreleased, by photographers from all over the world who through their works frame our time, generating profound and diversified portraits. Desides since his birth, the Festival has also aimed to involve young and emerging photographers.