Due to the unavailability of one of the speakers, this event is cancelled. It will be the responsibility of the City of Figline and Incisa Valdarno to communicate a make-up date for the event in the coming weeks.
Details of the meeting
Meeting to discover, together with the Arno Photographic Circle, theimportance of researching historical images, historicizing and archiving photos.
Photos from the Figline Historical Photographic Archive will, in addition, be screened, with an in-depth look at the historical period of reference.
Also present at the meeting was the Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Art and Performing Arts (Sagas) of the University of Florence, which is pursuing (in agreement with the Municipality of Figline and Incisa Valdarno and Circolo Fotografico Arno) a study project on the area's school memory. Read more.
The meeting is part of the side events of the exhibition "The Sense of Places," a photographic account of the territory and community of Figline and Incisa Valdarno.
The exhibition includes the display of shots taken ad hoc in Figline and Incisa Valdarno over the past year by the TerraProject collective (one of the most important and internationally awarded collectives), along with those on Figline signed (and already exhibited in the past) by two greats of photography, Paolo Monti (1980) and Gianni Berengo Gardin (2011), reproposed in a selection curated by the Circolo Fotografico Arno, which preserves them in the Municipal Historical Archives.
The exhibition will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am-1pm and 3pm-7pm (closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1).
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.
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).