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Flowing city

The dotART cultural association has launched a call for entry to find 30 photographers whose work will participate in the project Flowing City designed by Roberto Srelz more...

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Alicia Dobrucka, Castro, Montegallo, 2017. From the series Damage. C-print, 50x60cm. © the artist.

Seismic Sequence Fondazione Fotografia Modena presents, at MaTa in Modena, the outcome of a photographic mission carried out in Italy by seven international photographers with the aim of documenting the sites of the earthquake. Until February 4th, 2018

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Sebastião Salgado, South Sandwich Islands, 2009. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Contrasto.

Sebastião Salgado. Genesis An exhibition who brings together 245 spectacular b/w photos by Sebastião Salgado and outlines an enchanting journey that tells about the rare beauty of that unique and valuable heritage we have, our planet. Until January 28th, 2018

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James Nachtwey, The south tower of the World Trade Center collapsing following the attacks. For months after the September 11 attacks, rescue workers continued to work in thick dust, clearing the site, which came to be known as Ground Zero, USA, New York, 2001. © James Nachtwey/Trustees of Dartmouth College.

James Nachtwey. Memoria At Palazzo Reale in Milan, the retrospective James Nachtwey. Memoria offers a remarkable individual and collective reflection on the theme of war through the images of the renowned American photographer. On show until March 4th, 2018

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Paolo Roversi, My camera and Golshifteh, Paris, 2017. © Paolo Roversi. Courtesy Fondazione Sozzani.

Paolo Roversi. Incontri The evocative world created by the Italian fashion photographer Paolo Roversi will be on show at Fondazione Sozzani in Milan from November 16th, 2017 to February 11th, 2018

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Rob Hornstra, Brothers Zashrikwa (17) and Edrese (14) pose proudly with a kalashnikov on the sofa in their aunt and uncle’s house, Kuabchara, Abkhazia, 2009. © Rob Hornstra/Flatland Gallery.

War and Tourism in the Caucasus On show at the Forum Forum gallery in Bozen, until December 2nd 2017, the story of Sochi and the Caucasus, as well as lived and told Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen in The Sochi Project

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The sea in the eyes From November 17th to 30th, in the context of the Photo Vogue Festival 2017, LINKE.lab in Milan hosts Emergence, a selection of images dedicated to the sea by Lorenzo Castore, Loris Savino and Margherita Chiarva

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Mario Carrieri. Flowers and Visions The long and refined visual research carried out on the flowers by the Italian master photographer, Mario Carrieri, on show until November 19th, 2017 at the Triennale di Milano in Milan (Italy)

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Jessica Wolfelsperger, from the series Hide + Seek. © Jessica Wolfelsperger.

Don’t forget me not At Foto Forum gallery in Bolzano, untill the October 14th 2017, the exhibition Don’t forget me not focus the attention on the tight relation between photography and memory through the images of different authors

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Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo 21 02 2009. © Nobuyoshi Araki. Courtesy of Fondazione Bisazza.

Araki, simply The world of the Japanese master photographer,Nobuyoshi Araki, on show until December 3rd 2017 at the Fondazione Bisazza in Montecchio Maggiore (Italy)

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Viviane Sassen, Inhale, 2011. © Viviane Sassen. Courtesy Galleria Carla Sozzani/Fondazione Sozzani.

Viviane Sassen. She From September 20th to November 12th 2017, the Carla Sozzani Gallery in Milan will host She, a personal exhibition by the Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen

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Werner Bischof, On the road to Cuzco, near Pisac, in the Valle Sagrado of the Urubamba river, Perù, May 1954. © Werner Bischof/Magnum Photos.

Werner Bischof. Photographs 1934-1954 250 images by the great Swiss photographer Werner Bischof allow an overview of the stories and journeys of one of the reference points of the Magnum Photos agency. At the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice from September 22nd 2017 to February 25th, 2018

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Guy Bourdin, Vogue Paris, February 1971. © Guy Bourdin.

About Guy Bourdin The Carla Sozzani Gallery in Milan hosts two exhibitions dedicated to French fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, entitled In Between and [i]Untouched[/ i]. On display until October 11th the first and from October 15th to November 12th, 2017 the second

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From the exhibition Sharkification by Cristina de Middel. © Cristina de Middel.

Organ Vida 2017 On September 6th, it reopens in Zagreb (Croatia) Organ Vida - International Photography Festival. Exhibitions, talks, workshops, portfolio readings and much more until September 20th, 2017

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Antonio Faccilongo, IVF - In Vitro Insemination, winner of the photographic contest LuganoPhtoDays 2016. © Antonio Faccilongo.

LuganoPhotoDays Photo Contest 2017 The fourth edition of the Photo Contest by LuganoPhotoDays is now in its fourth edition, with a prize of 2500 Swiss francs, accompanied by a contest for emerging photographers and another one for travel photographs taken with the smartphone

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Elliott Erwitt, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 1957. © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos.

Elliott Erwitt, Personae From September 23rd 2017 to January 7th 2018, at San Domenico Museums in Forlì, will be held Personae, the retrospective dedicated to the French photographer Elliott Erwitt. The exhibition not only includes his famous black and white images, but also the colour production

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Joel Meyerowitz, Movie Theater Booth, Times Square, New York City, 1963. Courtesy of the artist and Howard Greenberg Gallery. © Rencontres Arles.

Joel Meyerowitz. Early Works Coming soon...

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Irving Penn, Hell's Angels, San Francisco, 1967. © The Irving Penn Foundation.

Irving Penn. Resonance After the Venice premiere of 2014, at Palazzo Grassi, the exhibition dedicated to the great American photographer Irving Penn arrives at the Fotografiska Museet in Stockholm. On show until October 1st, 2017

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Paras Chandaria, Nairobi – The Jungle City. © Paras Chandaria.

Nairobi, an urban jungle? Paras Chandaria investigates with his photographs the difficult coexistence between nature and modernity in the Nairobi Natural Park, where every day a little more the city of man invades the space of the eighty species at risk

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Shoeb Faruquee, Food for God, Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2017. © Shoeb Faruquee.

Pink Lady® Food Photographer The award-winners of the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2017 will be exhibiting in Voies Off 2017. Surprising, the results

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Omar Victor Diop, Thiaroye 1944, série Liberty. © Omar Victor Diop.

Africa in the mirror Omar Victor Diop arrives at La Gacilly with a selection of works from his most famous series through which he investigates the link between tradition and contemporaneity in today's Africa

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Sanne De Wilde, from the exhibition The island of the Colorblind. © Sanne De Wilde.

The Island of the Colorblind Presented by Circulation(s) at the invitation of the Festival Voies Off 2017, the project The Island of the Colorblind addresses the theme of Achromatopsia, a widespread disease in the atoll of Pingelap that prevents affected individuals from distinguishing colours

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Étienne Racine, from the exhibition Contrastes Andalous. © Étienne Racine.

Contrastes Andalous Étienne Racine is a French-Canadian photographer who has followed the popular Andalusia traditions highlighting with his black and white images the ever-present contrast between sacred and profane

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The dummy book Make a wish by Loulou d'Aki, winner of the Photobook Review and Prize 2017.

Make a wish by Loulou d'Aki It is the Swedish photographer Loulou d'Aki with the project Make a wish the winner of the Photobook Review and Prize 2017, the call for dummy organised by Cortona On The Move

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Daniele Tamagni, Lalhande the young, 2007. From the series Gentlemen of Bacongo. © Daniele Tamagni.

Daniele Tamagni. Another Look On show in Rome, at Galleria del Cembalo, an exhibition of Italian photographer Daniele Tamagni on Contemporary African street fashion and urban subcultures. Until September 16th, 2017

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Justyna Mielnikiewicz, Odessa, Ukraine, July 2015. © Justyna Mielnikiewicz.
Amina Okuyeva poses for the photo in a flat she shares with her mother and son. She was on Maidan from December 2014 working as a medical volunteer. In that time her husband was in prison accused of the attempt to kill Russian President Putin. After Euromaidan revolution he was pardoned and together with Amina joined international peacekeeping battalion of volunteers to support Ukraine in fighting against the pro-Russian insurgency.

COTM 2017: the exhibitions Twenty exhibitions are programmed in Cortona during the 7th edition of the Cortona On The Move International Photography Festival. Open to the public until 1st October 2017

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Jacob Aue Sobol, With and Without You. © Jacob Aue Sobol/Magnum Photos.

A space for Photography In an atmosphere typical of Arles, Jacob Aue Sobol, Natnada Marchal, Meg Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Riisager’s exhibitions are sequenced in distinct but interconnected environments

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Nina Parisi and Sarah Bochaton, from the exhibition Fermez les yeux et regardez. © Nina Parisi and Sarah Bochaton.

Fermez les yeux et regardez The exhibition Fermez les yeux et regardez by Marie-Rose Gilles, Nina Parisi, Sarah Bochaton and Cedric Poulain is not just a photo exhibition, but a real sensory experience

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COTM 2017, what’s new? Antonio Carloni, executive director of Cortona On The Move 2017, reveals to the readers of FPmag what’s new in the seventh edition

WORKSHOP

COTM 2017: Summer School Workshops proposed by Cortona On The Move will be held in Cortona from 16th July to 1st October 2017. Eight appointments with just as many protagonists of contemporary photography organised in collaboration with the Canon Academy

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Pierfrancesco Celada, Instagram Pier, Hong Kong. © Pierfrancesco Celada.

Happiness On The Move 2017: the winner It is the Italian photographer Pierfrancesco Celada with the Instagram Pier, Hong Kong project to win the 6th edition of the Happiness On The Move International Award

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Anton Stankowski (Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1906 – Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, 1998), Juwelen, 1930/1960. Gelatin silver print, 29,4×37,9 cm. © Stankowski-Stiftung.

The Power of Images The MAST Foundation presents a new exhibition from its industrial photography collection. Sixty authors from the twenties up to the present time show, with more than one hundred works. At MAST.Gallery in Bologna (Italy) up to September 24th, 2017

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Sartore like Noah? Oh please! A selection of 12,000 shots of Joel Sartore's work for the National Geographic at the La Gacilly Photo Festival until 30th September 2017

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Jean Depara, Bienvenue à la fête, from the series Night in Kinshasa, 1955-1965. © Jean Depara/Revue Noire.

The days and nights of Kinshasa Jean Depara with his camera fixed on the daily life of the intoxicating years in which the Congo was moving from colonial domination to independence

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Ed Alcock - CDT 56, Aurélie Forges, fauconnière au Parc zoologique du château de Branféré à Le Guerno. From the series Entre chien et loup Petites fables du Morbihan. © Ed Alcock - CDT 56 / Agence Myop pour Le Festival Photo La Gacilly 2017.

Festival Photo La Gacilly 2017 On 3rd June the 14th edition of the Photo Festival La Gacilly opens. The Breton event pays homage this year to sub-Saharan African photography, proposing a focus on the relationship between man and animals. Until September 30th, 2017

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Ai Weiwei, Odyssey, 2017. Exhibition view, ZAC, Palermo. © Ai Weiwei. Photo: Benito Frazzetta.

Ai Weiwei. Odyssey Until the 20th June 2017, at the ZAC – Zisa Contemporary Arts Zone exhibition space, in the city of Palermo (Sicily, Italy) Ai Weiwei presents Odyssey installation: a research project on refugee and refugee camps around the world

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Burhan Özbilici, The Associated Press, An Assassination in Turkey, World Press Photo of the Year 2016. Courtesy Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan.

World Press Photo '17 On show at the Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan, up to June 11th 2017, the exhibition of the 60th edition of the World Press Photo, one of the most significant award of photojournalism in the world

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John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015. Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound - 48'30''. Video still. © Smoking Dogs Films. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.

The Restless Earth The Triennale di Milano in Milan hosts an exhibition, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, which tries to describe this unstable and agitated present as a polyphony of voices and narratives. On show until August 20th, 2017

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Tabò Prize 2017 The deadline to partecipate in the 9th edition of the Giovanni Tabò Prize expires on 30 April 2017. The first and the second classified will be able to exhibit their portfolios in Rome as part of FotoLeggendo 2017 and to receive rich cash prizes

MELTINGPOT

NGO: Call for Entry 2017 Until the 25th of May 2017 it is possible to take part to the Call for Entry for NGOs organised by the Festival of Ethical Photography for the event's next edition

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Like a Samba At the ILEX Gallery in Rome, a collection of images by René Burri, David Alan Harvey and Francesco Zizola which looks at the beaches of Rio de Janeiro from the outside. On show until July 21st, 2017

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Celeste Prize 2017 Applications are open for the 9th edition of Celeste Prize, the international contemporary arts prize which every year awards 23,000 € and rewarding benefits to emerging and mid-career artists. Deadline: July 18th, 2017

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World.Report Award 2017 Expires May 9th, 2017 the deadline to participate in the seventh edition of the World.Report Award | Documenting Humanity. For the first time, there will be also a Single Shot category

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Luca Maria Patella, Lu' capa tella, 1973. © Luca Maria Patella. B/W print on cotton paper, 23,5x28 cm. Courtesy Laura Bulian Gallery.

Luca Maria Patella. selfEncyclopedia On show at the Laura Bulian Gallery in Milan, a solo exhibition of the Italian conceptual artist Luca Maria Patella dedicated to the visual word and writing. Until June 23rd, 2017

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From the series Golden Days Before They End. © Klaus Pichler. Winner of the Happiness On The Move International Award 2016.

Happiness On The Move 2017 The Happiness On The Move International Award is back! The Award is promoted by Cortona On The Move in collaboration with Consorzio Vino Chianti and with the media partnership of Pagina99. Deadline: May 21st, 2017

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Sandro Iovine, director of FPmag, during the Portfolio reviews organized within of Cortona On The Move 2016. © Stefania Biamonti/FPmag.

Portfolio reviews in Cortona The portfolio reviews of Cortona On The Move have returned: an opportunity to discuss with experts of an international level in the sector and to try to win the Visura Portfolio award. In Cortona, the 14th and 15th July 2017

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Pieter Hugo, Abdullahi Mohammed with Gumu, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria, 2007. From the series Gadawan Kura – The Hyena Men Series II. C-print, 172,5x172,5 cm. © the artist.

Fondazione Fotografia: 10 years old 2007-2017: a history of the world told through the images of the Fondazione Cassa di risparmio di Modena Collections. At Modena Foro Boario from March 11th to April 30th, 2017

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Elliott Erwitt. Kolor The first great Italian retrospective exhibition of colour photos by the renowned Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt. At Palazzo Ducale in Genova until September 3rd, 2017

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Sony WPA 2017: shortlists Shortlists revealed for 2017 Sony World Photography Awards. The most shortlisted photographers coming from Italy (23)

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COTM 2017: New Visions The launch for applications for the first international submission organised and promoted by the seventh edition of Cortona On The Move has begun. Deadline: 31st March 2017

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Letizia Battaglia, Festa del giorno dei morti. I bambini giocano con le armi, Palermo, 1986. Courtesy l'artista.

Just for passion An anthological exhibition dedicated to the great Sicilian artist Letizia Battaglia, with over 250 photographs documenting four decades of Italian history. And the photographer's love for her job too. At MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome until April 17th, 2017

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Pedrotti: an avant-garde photographer The Foto Forum gallery in Bolzano hosts an exhibition dedicated to the photographer Enrico Pedrotti, one of the protagonists unleashing a wave of innovation in Italy and abroad in the 1930s. Until March 11st, 2017

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Feinstein in Paris Harold Feinstein is relatively unknown in Europe, but he remains one of the greatest witness of contemporary America. On show until April 30th, 2017

CONTEST

SIPA Contest 2017 The 3rd edition of the Siena International Photo Awards is open! The contest includes ten different categories and it is open to professional and no professional photographers from all around the world. Deadline: February 25th, 2017

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Visible White Photo Prize 2017 It's "In Conflict" the theme chosen for the 6th edition of the Visible White Photo Prize, the international open call opened to photographers, artists and creative people, regardless of age, nationality or experience. Deadline: March 14th, 2017

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