Trieste Photo Days International Festival of Urban Photography
10^th edition 27-28-29 October 2023

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From 27 to 29 October, with more than 1300 photo exhibited, the Tenth Edition of Trieste Photo Days will amaze us with a wide variety of events: meetings with renowned international photographers, unprecedented photographic exhibitions in the main exhibition venues of the city, training events with workshops and masterclasses, exciting presentation events with authors and scientific consultants. As always, the common thread of this edition will be the high artistic and cultural level that has characterized this extraordinary event for years.

Trieste Photo Days will open the Tenth Edition on the occasion of the Barcolana, the largest sailing regatta in the world, with an extensive photographic exhibition “waiting for Trieste Photo Days“. Set up in the suggestive setting of the Hisotrical Market of Trieste, located in the heart of the city and full of atmosphere, the great exhibition will transform this suggestive and fascinating urban place into a real art gallery. On display are the best photographs taken from the “Trieste Audace”project, a tribute to the hometown created to celebrate this important milestone, and an incredible selection of photographs taken from the 14th edition of the URBAN Photo Awards international contest conceived by the dotART association itself, counted among the most important competitions in the world.

Among the innovations launched in the Tenth Edition the Trieste Photo Days Best Author Award and the Spazio TALENT dedicated to the Under 35s.

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GUESTS, EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS

Among the super-guests of Trieste Photo Days 2023: Alec Soth, Jérôme Sessini, Kadir van Lohuizen, Laura Zalenga.

Alec Soth, an American photographer and member of the prestigious Magnum Photos Agency, is known for his large-scale projects portraying rural and urban America, often focusing on neglected corners of the country, such as “Sleeping by the Mississippi” on cities post-industrial decaying Midwest. Soth’s photographs often portray individuals disconnected from society, highlighting the loneliness and isolation of modern life.Alec Soth, member of the URBAN Photo Awards 2023 Commission, will announce and personally award the overall winner of the Single Photos section during the URBAN Photo Awards Ceremony, Saturday, 28 October at the “Marco Sofianopulo” Auditorium of the Revoltella Civic Museum of Modern Art.

Jérôme Sessini, a member of the Magnum Photos agency, has followed most of the international events (Kosovo, Palestine, Iraq, the fall of Aristide in Haiti, the conquest of Mogadishu by Islamic militias and the war in Lebanon, and the long-term project So far from God, too close from the US on the battle of drug cartels in Mexico).Sessini will be the main guest of the project Mythography III: Diana, Minerva, Ceres – the third volume of the Mythography series freely inspired by Greek and Roman mythology created by Exhibit Around APS – on display in the Salone degli Specchi of the Sartorio Museum. The volume will be edited and presented at the Festival by Enrico Medda, Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Pisa.As a member of the URBAN Photo Awards 2023 Commission, Jérôme Sessini will choose and personally award the winning project of the URBAN Projects & Portfolio section.The great photographer Magnum will also hold talk and a not to be missed workshop!

Kadir van Lohuizen, a member of the NOOR images agency, known for his long-term projects on the seven rivers of the world, sea level rise, the diamond industry, and migrations in the Americas, will be the main guest of the project 71% The State of Water, the large collective photographic exhibition dedicated to Water  represented here in all its forms.Based on the volume of the same name created by Exhibit Around APS, the exhibition 71% The State of Water will host images by 206 exceptional photographers worldwide (“Umberto Veruda” room). The volume will be presented at the Festival by Gaetano Mangiameli, Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Milan-La Statale, where he teaches Cultural Anthropology and Environmental Anthropology.Furthermore, as a member of the URBAN Photo Awards 2023 Commission Kadir van Lohuizen will personally choose and award the winner of the URBAN Book Award 2023.Also scheduled a talk and an unmissable meeting with the public and a Masterclass!

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