Cortona On The Move 2022

“Me, myself and eye”: the intimate relationship between photography, society and identity is the core of Cortona on the Move

The 2022 edition of Cortona On The Move reflects on authorship, points of view and legitimacy.

From 14 July to 2 October 2022, the international festival of photography Cortona On The Move opens its doors to the public with dozens of exhibitions spread across the town’ historical centre, the Medici Fortress of Girifalco and the new location “Station C” in Camucia, a hamlet of the municipality of Cortona.

Photography is now more present than ever, raised to the status of universal language, pervasively produced, shared and consumed. Through its exhibitions, the festival reflects on authorship, point of view and legitimacy, on how subject and object intersect, clash and end up coexisting. Observing these dynamics, it questions photography as a means of expression and sharing.

LE MOSTRE DI CORTONA ON THE MOVE 2022

What exactly happens when we photograph? Is photography a weapon or an illuminating beacon? Who has the right to photograph what? Is the consent of the subject being photographed compulsory? Are we still photographing windows or are we just lost in a giant hall of mirrors, looking at ourselves endlessly? These are questions that have been debated for decades and are intrinsic to the nature of the medium. However, they have recently re-emerged with new vigour driven by the identity battle that has engulfed us. The realisation that there is an urgent need to reconsider how ethnicity, gender and class are represented is disrupting old unwritten rules and writing new ones.

Jacob Holdt – American Pictures – I just do things a cura di Lars Lindemann e Paolo Woods
Enoch Boateng (Focus and Blur); Sam ed Ekta; Thomas Sauvin; Oreste e Ivana Pipolo; Manal Alhumeed; Valerie Baeriswyl; Lindsay Ladd; Juan de la Cruz Megías Mondéjar; Massimo Stefanutti, mostra collettiva I Do (Sì, lo voglio)
Jojakim Cortis e Adrian Sonderegger – Icons
Stacy Kranitz – As it was Give(n) to Me
Gregory Halpern – Let the Sun Beheaded Be
Walter Niedermayr – Transformations / Il dialogo tra il self e il luogo in partnership con Intesa Sanpaolo
Martin Parr & The Anonymous Project – Déjà View. A Conversation in Colour
Izaak Theo Adu-Watts – No Ordinary Love
Martina Bacigalupo – Gulu Real Art Studio
Jan Banning – The Sweating Subject
Alessandro Cinque – Ser y aparecer
Alexander Chekmenev – Passport
Jah-Nita – Ride, Set, Match
Carlo Rainone – La foto con Dios
Niccolò Rastrelli – Covid-19 Face Wear
Nicolas Righetti – The Dictatorship of Image
Christian Lutz – Citizens
Lucas Foglia – Constant Bloom (progetto in corso) in partnership con Autolinee Toscane

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Hussain Alsumayen – Wrinkles
Huda Beydoun – A Disparate Familiar
Martin Kollár – Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Hayat Osamah – Fast – Paced
Eleonora Paciullo – أل مرأة ’ (Almar’a)
Awoiska van der Molen – Under Land
Jessica Auer – The Falcon’s Garden in collaborazione con Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie

Storie di Umanità. Fotografi per Medici senza Frontiere

Yarin Trotta del Vecchio – Shifting Sands. L’oblio dei migranti del Sahara
Filippo Taddei – Nel mare ci sono coccodrilli
Giuliano Lo Re – RIP: Rest In Pieces

Premio Ponchielli in collaborazione con GRIN

Gabriele Galimberti – The Ameriguns (vincitore edizione 2021) a cura di Renata Ferri
Nicolò Filippo Rosso – Exodus (vincitore edizione 2022) a cura di Roberta Levi