All you need to know about Photo Vogue Festival 2020

Digital Platform – online from 12 November 2020 to register to take part at the digital opening event 

Festival Live on the digital platform – 19-22 November 2020

Due to the uncertainty of social distancing measures and the general Covid—19 situation the fifth edition of the Photo Vogue Festival, organised by Vogue Italia will be mainly digital. A never seen before platform will host the exhibitions, talks and projections. 

Excerpts of the exhibitions will also be displayed outdoors from October 30th until November 22nd, in the Giardini di Porta Venezia in Milan, to allow the community to interact with the works. The full exhibitions will be browsable online starting November 19, as well as the live events, talks, zoom parties and portfolio reviews that will populate the same platform from the 19th to the 22nd of November 2020. 

As every edition, the Festival will be a unique opportunity for those interested in photography, fashion and art to come into contact with a showcase of innovative photography and industry leaders, from curators to practitioners.

☛ This article will be updated daily with new infos about the program.

EXHIBITION

• All in this together

• Curated byAlessia Glaviano and Francesca Marani

Artists: Miloushka Bokma, Kennedi Carter, Imraan Christian, Jasmine Clarke, Imogen Freeland, Jillian Freyer, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Devashish Gaur, Emma Hartvig, Neha Hirve, Sophie Kietzmann, M’hammed Kilito, Anu Kumar, Hassan Kurbanbaev, Andras Ladocsi, Myles Loftin, Daniel Jack Lyons, Amber Pinkerton, Bettina Pittaluga, Roselena Ramistella, Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Kirstin Schmitt & Juan A. Otamendiz, Aki-Pekka Sinikoski, Cécile Smetana Baudier, Leonard Suryajaya, Nick Van Tiem, Silvana Trevale, Isabelle Wenzel, Devin Yalkin, Alice Zoo

A showcase of work by 30 photographers that collectively create a hymn to love and hope, a sense of community, and of solidarity and empathy. The theme for this open call exhibition was conceived following the universal experience of the impacts of Covid-19 spreading beyond borders and barriers.

When normality crumbled, art and its fleeting and extemporaneous nature became a gift. Its distribution and sharing built and trans-formed interpersonal relations, distracted people from their isolation to allowed them to meet again in a space where loneliness was replaced by the Communitas, a strong feeling of solidarity and togetherness.

This exhibition features 30 photographers selected through the scouting initiative launched on PhotoVogue, the photographic platform of Vogue.it. The works have been selected by an internationally jury consisting of experts from across the world, with different backgrounds and vision so as to try to provide the most inclusive and multifaceted perspective.

To read more about it: https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/article/photo-vogue-festival-2020-all-in-this-together-30-photographers-exhibition

EXHIBITION

• In the picture • Shifting perspectives in fashion photography

• Curated byAlexandra von Fuerst, Camila Falquez, Nadine Ijewere and Ruth Ossai

Photographs are inherently political, as acts of choosing and displaying them. Fashion photography is layered and complex, a dream factory that is more and more predominantly the preferred stage where collective identities are played and created. Photo Vogue Festival will explore the current fashion photography landscape, by initiating a dialogue among four of its most brilliant minds.

Camila Falquez, Nadine Ijewere, Alexandra von Fuerst and Ruth Ossai are all “contemporary socially conscious fashion photographers”.

They belong to a new generation of artists whose aesthetics are a hybrid of genres, and are themselves a driving force for change. Their work engages in a dialogue with visual arts and journalism, as well as with an assimilated desire to balance out the various levels of representation. The work of Camila, Nadine, Alexandra and Ruth avoids being didactic whilst touching on issues of gender, race, and womanhood, and is simultaneously glamorous, vibrant and powerful. For this exhibition, Photo Vogue Festival 2020 gives space to their vision, initiating a four-way dialogue where the artists are also curators.

To read more about it: https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/article/in-the-picture-shifting-perspectives-in-fashion-photography

TALKS & PROJECTIONS

From 19th to 22nd November @ photovoguefestival.vogue.it

PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

DON'T MISS this special opportunity - FREE PORTFOLIO REVIEW

Saturday November21st

IF YOU WANT THE CHANCE to have your portfolio reviewed for free by talented editors and curators, SEND YOUR PORTFOLIO to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by OCTOBER 20th.

Portfolio Reviewers: Alessia Glaviano, Amber Terranova, Astrid Sokona Lepoultier, Azu Nwagbogu, Bernadette Tuazon, Bruno Ceschel, Ekow Eshun, Federica Chiocchetti, Giulia Zorzi, Giuseppe Oliverio, Ihiro Hayami, James Estrin, Jean-François Leroy, Jehan Jillani, Jenny Smets, Karly Domb Sadof, Kathy Ryan, Kira Pollack, Lars Lindemann, Lekgetho Makola, Maddalena Scarzella, Maggie Steber, Maria Teresa Salvati, Melissa Harris, Michael Famighetti, Michael Van Horne, Olfa Feki, Olivier Laurent, Paul Moakley, Renata Ferri, Sadie Quarrier, Sarah Leen, Shannon Ghannam, Sorana Munsya, Willy Ndatira

To read more about it: https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/article/digital-portfolio-review-photo-vogue-festival-2020-reviewers

SIDE EVENTS

The most exciting photography events hosted by the best galleries within the most prestigious exhibition spaces and schools in Milan.

• 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery: “On Seduction”. Artists: Giuseppe Mastromatteo, Toni Meneguzzo, Rankin. Curated by Giovanni Pelloso

• Armani Silos: “Heimat. A Sense of Belonging”. Artist: Peter Lindbergh

• Condominio: “ITALIA 90”. Group exhibition

• c|e Contemporary: “Vertical New York”. Artist: John Gellings. Curated by Batsceba Hardy and Christine Enrile

• Fondazione Sozzani: “Ren Hang, photography”. Artist: Ren Hang

• Galleria Podbielski: “ORE SOSPESE | Un diario italiano”. Group exhibition. Curated by Maud Greppi and Pierre André Podbielski

• Istituto Italiano di Fotografia: “Occhio Vivo”, part of "Venti Rosa: Nuovi Sguardi Femminili sul Contemporaneo". Artist: Irene Guastella

• Fondazione Stelline: “Skrei. Il viaggio”. Artist: Valentina Tamborra. Curated by Roberto Mutti

• Forma Meravigli: “La prossima immagine”. Produced by Contrasto in collaboration with Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia and Contrasto Galleria

• Leica Galerie Milano: “M’innamoravo di tutto”. Curated by Denis Curti

• Casa Testori: “Meristà”. Artists: Fatima Bianchi, Ilaria Turba. Curated by Giulia Zorzi

• Monica De Cardenas: “Allunati”. Artist: Rä di Martino

• Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea

• NonostanteMarras: “Se non posso ballare non è la mia rivoluzione”. Artist: Francesco Bellina

• Officine Fotografiche Milano: “Il silenzioso battito delle loro mani”. Artist: Davide Bertuccio

• Office Project Room: “Lowlands”. Group exhibition. Curated by PHROOM

• Other Size Gallery: “Maddalena Arcelloni. Incredibly Close”. Artist: Maddalena Arcelloni. Curated by Giusi Affronti

• Palazzo Reale. "Prima, donna. Margaret Bourke-White". Curated by Alessandra Mauro

• Pananti Atelier: "Abglanz". Artist: Alina Maria Frieske. Curated by Twenty14

• Reading Room: “Oath Magazine: A Photography Pledge”

• STILL Fotografia

• Viasaterna