The 12th annual edition of the catalogue created in collaboration with the publishing house Emuse. Buy it at the link.

If you’re interested in the previous annual editions of the catalogues, buy them at the link.

A new series of books was born: it’s called FOCUS. Every year we’ll publish a new edition devoted to the work of one of the photographers who has been exhibited at the Festival.
This year Focus is dedicated to Exodus a project by Nicolò Filippo Rosso.

This project was exhibited at the Festival in 2020 and it was selected as the winner of the Premio Voglino. Alberto Prina, coordinator of the Festival wrote its preface.

Since 2018 Alfredo Bosco has been working in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, dealing with the repercussions of the Mexican war on drugs. Guerrero is the country’s leading opium producer and this has brought to internal feuds between criminal groups fighting for this territory. In the Mexican state of Guerrero one of the most obvious effects related to violence is the abandonment of families and citizens from their villages where many are threatened by the violence of war between different criminal groups.

Over the last hundred years the city of Brescia and its province have experienced an exceptional economic development, mainly thanks to the engineering and mining sectors, to whose gravel, sand and marble quarries we owe the name of “land of holes”. The presence of these huge holes ready to be filled started the waste business in the 1980s.

An unfiltered, personal and intense account of Xylella, the plant epidemic that threatens Europe; Fastidiosa is the result of Caimi + Piccinni photographing the plight of local farmers and environmental devastation in Puglia, southern Italy, over a period of six years. Working under the project title This Land is My Land, the duo were in the groves with farmers facing the destruction of their history, culture and livelihood, as they were forced to cut down heritage olive trees to prevent the spread of infection into northern Europe. Millions of trees have already been felled, and there is no known cure for the disease. Fastidiosa features a dramatic mix of black and white analogue portraits and landscapes, colour images highlighting scientific research and experimental efforts, with archival photographs and words from residents of the region.

The author, who is also a journalist, is on a journey characterized by a choice of complex themes that she always tackles gracefully and with personal style. In this case she has portrayed women affected by breast cancer, using a veil- a typically feminine habit- as a common theme. The disease can be recognized in a scar, in the absence of hair, in a tattoo that hides a wound- however, what appears is not suffering, but harmony and lightness, because the desire to live and react is stronger than pain. I was, I am, I will is a project by Coop Lombardia. 

Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down, The Day I Was Born and Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta are the three books by Eugene Richards where you can find some of the photographs exhibited at the Festival this year.