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Lucas Foglia, from the work Constant Bloom. © Lucas Foglia.

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Photography illuminates the night in Piacenza

Returning to Piacenza on the 8th and 9th of May 2026, the festival’s fifth edition offers a visual journey through nocturnal screenings featuring the work of renowned photographers and Open Call winners, alongside an exclusive keynote lecture by Sandro Iovine on the seminal photobook, "William Eggleston’s Guide" more...

PORTFOLIO

Dal libro Una goccia dopo l'altra. © Giovanni Gabassi.

Drop upon fall of drop Giovanni Gabassi

A contemporary and intimate photographic body of work by Giovanni Gabassi, produced within the programmes at FPschool School of Photography

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FPmag Cover #34 | FPtalk 55 | Milano_Parma_AR | © Piermichele Borraccia

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FPtalk 52 | Moda inclusiva | Eva Gusella

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CONTEST

SIMULTANEI, volti del contemporaneo 2019, Cinzia Battagliola, Nuda Veritas. © Cinzia Battagliola.

SIMULTANEI 2019: the 15 finalists The jury of SIMULTANEI, volti del contemporaneo 2019 has announced the fifteen finalists selected from the 797 participating authors from all over the world.

EXHIBITIONS

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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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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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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Le quartier Saint-Antoine Hubert Barre

The portraits of the inhabitants of the Saint-Antoine quarter in Aubenas at the end of the eighties. Today, only these photographs remain of them

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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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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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FPmag COVER #012 Photo by Richard Tuschman

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FPmag COVER #001 Photo by Filippo Venturi

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... and potentially dangerous Andrey Semenov

Andrey Semenov photographed monitors of the scanners in the subway in Moscow, offering food for thought on contemporary society

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Suspended Landscapes Luca Izzo

Luca Izzo summarizes in the depletion of the landscape a mental abstraction process that goes far beyond the everyday perception of the world

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Hopper Meditations Richard Tuschman

Richard Tuschman started by reproducing Edward Hopper's paintings from a photographic point of view, but his work has created autonomous artworks

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Mister G. life is surreal Gilbert Garcin

The adventure of life explored with an avatar that moves in a world of surreal appearance, but lifted the veil of the metaphor, so similar to reality

EXHIBITIONS

An ex-Seleka soldier from the army of warlord General Ali Darrass stands guard at the Ndassima gold mine, the biggest in CAR. © William Daniels/Panos Pictures.

C.A.R., a hell on earth The Central African Republic is a country plunged into a state of continual and unspeakable violence in the absence of a state power capable of putting an end to the massacres. William Daniels, winner of World.Report Award - Documenting Humanity 2016 in the Master Award section, has outlined the profile with his photojournalistic work

MELTINGPOT

During a guided tour of the Thematic Area The lives of the others, realised with the support of Fujifilm Italia on the occasion of the Festival of Ethical Photography 2016. © FPmag.

Fujifilm Italia and the culture of the image For the third consecutive year, Fujifilm Italia supports the Thematic Area within the Festival of Ethical Photography, but this year also proposed a series of initiatives and very interesting meetings

EXHIBITIONS

Tennessee. USA, 2015. The wedding of two members of the KKK in a barn in rural Tennessee. © Peter Van Agtmael/Magnum Photos.

The Ku Klux Klan The work of Peter Van Agtmael on the Ku Klux Klan, presented in Lodi during the Festival of Ethical Photography 2016, is just one piece of a much larger mosaic that the Magnum photographer is composing on the contemporary United States

OPINIONS

Advertisement Fanta and Opération Sentinelle. Perpignan, september, 4th 2016. © FPmag.

Revelations at the bus stop In some cases to speak of subtexts in iconic messages is a euphemism that covers only the absolute incompetence of the media to decrypt the encrypted contents, exploiting the images that surround us

OPINIONS

We are no longer "Charlie" «I do not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death that you may have the right to express it»: a phrase attributed to Voltaire that should not be remembered only when it suits. But images have once again demonstrated their power, sparking strong reactions

MELTINGPOT

The controls and the corresponding queue at the Covent des Minimes. © FPmag.

Perpignan and the anti-terrorism controls The delicate international situation and the risk of terrorist attacks have also involved the Visa pour l'Image which for the first time has not only fielded controls at the entrance to exhibitions and conferences, but also in the streets

EXHIBITIONS

A pregnant woman who has managed to find one of the rare openings in the defense line is seen crossing the frontline at midnight. Doogrdkan (56 km south of Mosul), April 19, 2016. © Frédéric Lafargue for Paris Match.

Escape from ISIS What happens when a city is freed after two years of being occupied by the Isis? Frederic Lafargue tells us about it in his work on Sanjar, in North Western Iraq

EXHIBITIONS

From the exhibition Un regard poétique by Shōji Ueda. © Shōji Ueda.

A poetic look Brilliant, delicate, surreal, Shōji Ueda for over thirty years photographed among the dunes of Tottori, producing images that sink with a smile on the lips in the depths of the human subconscious

EXHIBITIONS

A leopard seal bares teeth in a threat display to protect her kill from the exhibition Sous les glaces, s’éteignent les espèces by Paul Nicklen. © Paul Nicklen/National Geographic Creative.

Lives under the ice The images of Canadian photographer Paul Nicklen dedicated to the Arctic wildlife is not only spectacular, but also denounces the risk of extinction of the species whose survival depends on pack ice

PORTFOLIO

Les petites-filles de Salvatore Erika Vancouver

From the tragedy of Marcinelle to the Miss Italy in the World contest: the identity making spirit of the Italian community in Belgium investigated by Erika Vancouver

EXHIBITIONS

Canada. Lambton County, Ontario. 1996. Twelve-year-old Naomi Towell wrapped in a towel standing on the bank of the Sydenham River after a swim dalla mostra The Larry Towell Show di Larry Towell. © Larry Towell/Magnum Photos

The Larry Towell Show The first retrospective in Europe of the great Canadian photographer from Magnum in exhibition as part of Cortona On The Move 2016

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Made in Korea Filippo Venturi

The consequences of an extremely fast economic and social transformation in the images by Filippo Venturi on South Korea

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Travel'Air Mindaugas Kavaliauskas

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas travels a lot by air for work and during his journeys photographs what he sees. This is how Travel'Air was born

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Moriyama in color Daidō Moriyama

Daidō Moriyama is known to the public for his works in black and white, but it is interesting how his language is remodelled in colour

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Morandi's Objects Joel Meyerowitz

Over 700 shots for 260 objects, in search of a vision that enhances the empirical plane in the abstraction of the imagination

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Hunting with Eagles Palani Mohan

Hunting with eagles is an Asian tradition that could soon disappear, but it offers a starting point for the analysis of the society in relation to the territory

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Left 3 Days Mak Remissa

The traumatic memory from the beginning of a tragedy for a Nation is transformed after forty years in images visible to everyone

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Contemporary Allegories Davide Conti

The shape is inspired by classical western art in the choice of lights, gestures and themes, but the contents speak of our time

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Palestinian Dream Andrea & Magda

A story of how globalisation affects the everyday life of the population even in the occupied territories of the West Bank

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The Season of the Shadows Luca Broglia

By means of photography places by now abandoned can return to life by erasing the ties imposed by Time

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Forgiven and not Forgotten Yulia Knish

The search for an identity, the memory, its symbols and the signs of passage through different cultures declined through the self-portrait

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Tribute to 163rd Signal Photo Co. Maurizio ValdarniniA tribute to the work of the American soldiers-photographers who documented the Second World War

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Right Time, Right Place Robert Rutöd

The surreality surrounds us, it's enough realize it at the right time, in the right place

EXHIBITIONS

From the exhibition Street Portfolio. © Gabi Ben Avraham.

Street Portfolio Street photography interpreted as a tool to unveil the process of appropriation of Pop Art by consumerist and capitalist systems, to raise awareness to the viewer

VIDEO

Dread and Dreams An interview with Zalmaï, the Afghan photographer who wanted to relate the true face of his country, very different from how it is shown by the Western media

EXHIBITIONS

From the exhibition Scorched Earth China's Wounded Environmet. © James Whitlow Delano.

Pollution: a step away from the brink The work of James Whitlow Delano on one of the most polluted places in the world is almost a trip into the darkness

MELTINGPOT

Children with no Identity. © Abdollah Keidari.

The Impact Project: cues for reflection An evening of screenings, in which are shown positive issues and not misfortunes. This is The Impact Project

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EXHIBITIONS

Hunting with Eagles An area that puts great strain on survival, hunters that speak of eagles like members of their family, a tradition that is disappearing. All this in the images of Palani Mohan

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From the exhibition Left 3 days. © Remissa Mak/Asia Motion.

Left 3 Days The memories of a child, before the beginning of one of the bloodiest dictatorships in the history of the twentieth century, brought back to life through pictures

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Chronicle of a crisis Coming soon...

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Central Africa: a forgotten war A bloody devastation, which lasts for years in guilty silence of politics and international press, in the picture story by Ugo Lucio Borga

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The Family: underworld in London The death of one of the most famous characters of the London underworld gives rise to the work of Jocelyn Bain Hogg, that brings us to the presence of the extended family created by the late boss

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From There to Here Coming soon...

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Operation Mare Nostrum, the Italian Navy frigate FREMM Bergamini the first time it was tasked with a rescuing operation of a group of Syrian refugees on a fishing boat, 5th June 2014. © Massimo Sestini.

A Mosaic of our Time An exhibition, that of Massimo Sestini exhibited at the Festival of Ethical Photography of Lodi, which raises many questions: from the opportunity to put it into programming to the communication dynamics of publishing, from journalistic professionalism to the status of the medium

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Photographing Hope An exhibition created by professional photographers and journalists, in collaboration with a group of guys selected through an international photo contest, to tell the positive face of Uganda

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Life is on New High In Bombay, the juxtaposition of skyscraper and shantytowns creates a disconcerting contrast as reported by Alicia Dobrucka’s pictures

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Purity, 2014 Promises of purity of the young American girls in some religious communities to their fathers

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Tools of Resistance The types of homemade weapons built by the Ukrainian opposition within a process of collective creativity

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Inventio The consequences of neo-colonialism and of power relations between North and South

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Ulundi, 2012 An impressive architectural complex of the government at the time of the apartheid in paradoxical conditions of neglect

EXHIBITIONS

Tokyo Parrots Imported from the tropics as pets, parrots have invaded the urban areas of the Japanese capital

VIDEO

A meeting with Hélène Joye-Cagnard FPmag met Hélène Joye-Cagnard, director of the Journées photographiques de Bienne/Bieler Fototage

EXHIBITIONS

Options for Walls The image that fits itself in its previous places of exposure, extending itself in time and space

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Lucas Foglia, Tommy Trying to Shoot Coyotes. From the exhibition Frontcountry, 2006 - 2013. © Photograph by Lucas Foglia, courtesy of Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London.

Frontcountry The effects of the mining boom in the American provinces, where those who live on ranches for generations has been forced to live with the mining companies

EVENTS

Manifestos greeting the visitors at Photoforum PasquArt, where the inauguration of the Journées Photographiques de Bienne/Bieler Fototage has taken place. © FPmag.

Bieler Fototage: ready, steady, go! In the modern context of the Photoforum PasquArt in Bienne, the 19th edition of the Journées Photographiques has been inaugurated

EXHIBITIONS

An employ of ‘Jetpack Cayman’ demonstrates the watersport now available on the island. A 2000cc motor pumps up water trough the Jetpack propelling the client out of the water (359US$ for a 30 minutes secession). Mike Thalasinos, the owner of the company quips, ‘the Jetpack is zero gravity, the Cayman are zero taxes, we are in the right place!’ Grand Cayman. Courtesy of the artist. © Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti.

The Heavens, annual report Paul Woods and Gabriele Galimberti have investigated for years the tax havens around the world

EXHIBITIONS

Eikoh Hosoe, Simmon: A Private Landscape, 1971. Courtesy of the artist, Jean-Kenta Gauthier, Paris, and Akio Nagasawa Gallery, Tokyo. © Rencontres Arles.

Another Language Eight Japanese photographers and over 200 photographs at the Église Sainte-Anne

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