EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival 2026

The Piedmontese capital hosts the third edition of EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival under the theme Mettersi a nudo (My Heart Laid Bare). Curated and produced by CAMERA, it features 18 indoor and outdoor temporary exhibitions.

Overview

The theme of the 2026 edition will be Mettersi a nudo (My Heart Laid Bare): The theme chosen for 2026 is Mettersi a nudo (My Heart Laid Bare): an invitation to look inward and beyond appearances, questioning the relationship between identity and representation, body and image, the visible and the invisible.

This perspective permeates the entire Festival program – comprising temporary exhibitions, talks, events, and city-wide initiatives – engaging both national and international artists and institutions. The festival activates Turin’s premier cultural venues as well as various spaces across the city’s perimeter. Mettersi a nudo thus becomes more than physical revelation; it is a symbolic gesture of authenticity—shedding social constructs, showing oneself as one truly is, and observing self and others without filters. It is a tension that photography, more than any other medium, makes tangible through the truth of a face, a landscape, or a body, and the plurality of gazes that traverse them.

Promoted by the Steering Committee – including the City of Turin, the Piedmont Region, the Turin Chamber of Commerce, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, and Fondazione CRT in synergy with Fondazione Arte CRT and Intesa Sanpaolo – and coordinated by Fondazione per la Cultura Torino, the third edition of EXPOSED is curated and produced by CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia. It seeks to highlight and strengthen Turin’s vocation as a "City of Photography."

Now in its third year, the Festival marks a new phase, defining its identity with greater clarity under the artistic direction of Walter Guadagnini. It is not merely an exhibition platform, but a structured curatorial apparatus capable of guiding content, language, and relationships – a project for Turin that blends curatorial excellence with widespread participation, fostering a constant dialogue between places, authors, and the public.

Exhibited artists include Toni Thorimbert, Yorgos Lanthimos, Bernard Plossu, Dean Chalkley, Paola Agosti, Diana Markosian, Fabio Bucciarelli, Enrico Gili, Deka Mohamed Osman, Marco Rubiola, Ralph Gibson, Karla Hiraldo Voleau, Paolo Ventura, Claudia Amatruda, Máté Bartha, Benedetta Casagrande, Anna Orlowska, Ada Zielinska, Yana Wernicke, Mark Leckey, Federica Belli, Silvia Camporesi, Sara Lorusso, Claudio Majorana, Zoe Natale Mannella, Fabio Paleari, Camillo Pasquarelli, Leila Erdman Tabukashvili, and more.

Among the highlights is Esterno Notte, a major open-air screening event spanning the streets and neighborhoods of Turin. As one of the most significant public moments of the Festival’s opening days, it was created to celebrate photography alongside the city and its residents. On the evening of Friday, April 10, from 9pm to midnight, the Piedmontese capital will "lay itself bare" and transform: buildings, walls, windows, courtyards, and balconies will become giant screens, inviting passersby to look up and rediscover everyday spaces in a new light.

During the opening week, the prize recipient of the second Garesio Wine Prize for Documentary Photography will be announced. This award recognizes research that interprets themes of landscape, environment, and ecology with a conscious and original perspective, through a residency in the Langhe region and the creation of a new, original body of work. The event, designed specifically for the festival, will offer an in-depth look at the work of the artist selected by Giovanna Garesio (Founder of Garesio Vini and Resort), Walter Guadagnini (Artistic Director of EXPOSED), and François Hébel (Artistic Director of CAMERA Torino).