Final event of the exhibition
"Telling the Territories"
Concluding meeting of the Exhibition "The Sense of Places"
Praetorian Palace, Figline, Figline and Incisa Valdarno (FI)
Saturday, January 14, 2023, 5:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Simone Donati and Michele Borzoni(TerraProject photographers)
Giovanna Calvenzi (Critic and curator, head of Gabriele Basilico Archive)
Martino Marangoni (Photographer and director Studio Marangoni Foundation)
George Tatge (Photographer and lecturer)
At the conclusion of the Exhibition "The Sense of Places," which opened in September 2022, a lecture entitled "Telling the Territories," a talk that will attempt to frame what is today's photographic storytelling of territories, more or less known, will take place in the spaces of the Praetorian Palace.
It will be discussed by the photographers of TerraProject, who have been chronicling the municipal area for about a year; Giovanna Calvenzi, internationally renowned critic and curator; Martino Marangoni, photographer and director of one of the most active photography schools in Tuscany; and George Tatge, a photographer of international fame and experience who has documented the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula.
The authors of the new shots: the TerraProject collective
TerraProject Photographers is a documentary photography collectivefounded in Florence in 2006 by Michele Borzoni, Simone Donati, Pietro Paolini and Rocco Rorandelli. One of the first photographic collectives to be born in our country, TerraProject soon became an important platform of comparison and promotion for its members, who over the years have also developed an original methodology of "collective writing," with group projects defined by a refined stylistic uniformity. The authors have always focused their research on social and environmental issues, both globally and nationally. In Italy they have built over time an important archive of documentation of the territory, thanks to relevant public and private commissions. The collective's works are regularly published in the pages of major Italian and international magazines and have been exhibited in galleries, festivals and prestigious international museums, including Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), MAXXI (Rome), Fondazione MAST (Bologna), MACRO (Rome), Benaki Museum (Athens), Palazzo Ducale (Genoa), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Katzen Arts Center (Washington), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), Les Rencontres d'Arles (Arles), Cortona on the Move Festival (Cortona), Festival of Ethical Photography (Lodi) and the European Parliament (Brussels).
TerraProject has published numerous monographic and collective books, and their works are held in important public and private collections.
The members of the collective have received prestigious international awards, including the World Press Photo (2010 and 2012), Canon Prize (2010), Fund for Investigative Journalism (2011), Pesaresi Prize for Contemporary Photography (2013), Graziadei Prize (2014), Celeste Prize-Streamers (2016), Landskrona photobook dummy award (2018), and the Gabriele Basilico Prize (2020).