Fotografia Calabria Festival 2025
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Opens1 Aug 2025
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Ends12 Oct 2025
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- Location San Lucido, Italy
With Shared Roots: Places, the festival invites us to look beyond the surface, explore the complexity of the places around us, and reflect on how these, in their continuous transformation, reflect who we are and what we are becoming.
Overview
For the 4th edition of the Fotografia Calabria Festival, the theme Shared Roots: Places invites us to explore how the places we inhabit and traverse are an extension of the roots that connect us, not only to the past but also to our collective and personal identity. In this way, places become points of intersection between our individual history and our collective history, guardians of both visible and invisible bonds, speaking of belonging, evolution, and change.
On one hand, there are the physical and geographical places – cities, landscapes, buildings, small spaces, abandoned places – that are so familiar and present in our lives that they urge us to document, celebrate, and crystallize them, or, conversely, to take them for granted, only to rediscover them unexpectedly. On the other hand, there are preconceived ideas and clichés we associate with certain places, influencing how we perceive, experience, or ignore them. Moreover, there are imaginary places: spaces that do not belong to the physical world but exist in the minds of those who create them, reflecting shared ideas and visions.
Every landscape, every building, every urban or rural space – even the most mundane or forgotten – is rooted in a memory that defines it. Through photography, this visual journey tells the story of these common roots: the deep connection that binds us to the places we inhabit, as well as those we have lost, removed, or that exist only in our dreams and perceptions.
Exhibiting artists include Maja Nydal Eriksen, Alessandro Toscano, Hashem Shakeri, Marie Tomanova, Claudia Fuggetti, Alessandro Mallamaci, Lys Arango, Ciro Battiloro, Paul Gambin, Jung Ui Lee, Kazuaki Koseki, Chiara Negrello, Sofia Pagliaro e Gaia Tognoni, Melissa Peritore, Mykahilo Palinchak, and Archivio Luce.
