The winner of the call dedicated to emerging photographers is Bianca Maldini, who at the festival will present “Once Someone Told Me,” an exhibition project that stems from a personal research on the incredible, the irrational. Others then included Giacomo d’Orlando and his underwater greenhouses, Fabian Albertini and Alex Urso. The aim of the projects is to depict the time that belongs to us but also to provoke perplexity and trigger doubts, delving into the theme of environmental and climate protection and the cultural, political and social fallout it triggers.Īmong the leading names at the festival are Misha Vallejo Prut, with his account of the indigenous Kichwa community of Sarayaku (in Ecuador), Marco Zorzanello and his images of how the tourism industry is reacting to the effects of climate change, and Gabriele Cecconi, on display with a photographic survey of the microcosm of Kuwait. 10, the event will host shots by artists, along with events, talks and workshops that will explore the theme of the edition, entitled “MIDWAY: between past and future.” The event dedicated to contemporary photography is in its first edition and hosts Italian and international artists, as well as a section dedicated to emerging photographers. In the past few days the Fiumefreddo Photo Festival has opened in the picturesque village of Fiumefreddo Bruzio on the lower Tyrrhenian coast of Cosenza. You may not have sweet dreams tonight, however, Schenardi’s work is worth looking at on his Instagram profile. The embrace of two lovers ends with both sticking a syringe into each other’s arms, and it is as hard to believe as the sight of a holy man suspended in the air above a sports car.Īfter years in contact with contemporary art formats, the artist embarked on a career as a digital illustrator, representing the flow of his thoughts and character. A woman should not have to watch the sunset as her arm melts just like the cake she is forcefully crushing, just as the idea of giant lobsters invading a beach is unlikely but terrifying. The scenes portrayed by Luca Schenardi have no line of continuity, elements overlap each other decorating the scenes and adding pieces of mystery regarding the meaning of the actions. The illustrated subjects seem to come from a real world only in dreams, in some ways disturbing and alienating. Looking at Luca Schenardi’s works, I thought they look like a perfect representation of those videos, or at least of the concept behind them. In the past few weeks Instagram and TikTok were flooded with “don’t let them know your next move” videos, in which creators performed unpredictable actions that one would not have expected to see that way, using objects improperly in an almost surreal vision.