Be twenty years old. At the end of European Photography 2025 – Reggio Emilia

Reggio Emilia – What does it mean in the third millennium for twenty years? From tomorrow, Thursday, April 24, until 8 June European Photography 2025 answers the question with a rich program of exhibitions, which calls to say their own teachers of the lens and young debutants. Lightness and disruption, timeless feelings and typical emergency situations of our time are performed in Reggio Emilia on the occasion of the festival that this year happens to exceed the finish line of the twentieth edition. Many surprises to be discovered in the event directed by Tim Clark (editor 1000 words), Walter Guadagnini (historian of the photo and room director – Italian center for photography) and Luce Lebart (researcher and curator, archive of modern conflict).

Ten exhibitions are waiting for visitors Monasteries of San Pietro. The famous Japanese photographer Dido MoriyamaFor example, European photography has chosen the only stage of Italy for a retrospective that includes sixty years of a clear career. Living Legend of Photography and Pioneer of Street Photography, Moriyama has told the evolution of Japanese society of the post -war period to date with a powerful avant -garde -approach.
The project is an absolute first Slow and all of them at the same time British Andy Sewellthat protests the theme through images of rare intensity, with special attention to the ecological emergency situations of our time, while Seasickness Claudio Majorana He accompanies the audience in the delicate universe of adolescence between thoughts and fears called by the suggestive landscapes of Lithuania.

In the exhibition You don’t dieThe Iranian journalist Ghazal Golshiri e The photo -editor di le Monde Marie Sumalla They tell the uprising of the Iranian young people after the tragic death of twenty -year -old Mahsa Amini in 2022, after the violence after arrest because of his way of getting dressed. And as the British artist and photographer Vinca Petersen recorded the “subversive joy” of Rave and events throughout Europe (Ravers and Riots Sigellation), the recordings of Thaddé Comar The strategies that are devised by Hong Kong’s demonstrators are investigating to protect themselves against new omnipresent and technologically advanced social control methods (How was your dream?). Con Renew control Take GerzhaYoung photographer of Russian origin grown in Amsterdam, investigates the life of the Z -generation in Russia and Eastern Europe, while the project Fragments of the Dominican French Karla Hiraldo Voleau It is inspired by the Love Rallies From Pasolini to document the relationships between the 1920s in the current Italy.

The headquarters of Palazzo Mosto It welcomes some of the characteristic projects of this edition, starting at Intangible By Federica SassoCommission 2025 of the festival dedicated to the invisible world of young care providers, to continue with the winners of the operation – MATYLDA NIZEGORODCEW” Michele one Rocco Rorandelli of the TerraProject Collective – and close to the exhibition with the exhibition Electric whisper artist RA Van MartinoA photographic journey among the young Lebanese in the complex scenario of the conflict, created in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut.

Unmissable Palazzo dei Musei And Luigi Ghirri. Photography lessonsA look different from the usual work of the master, starting at the photography courses that he saved between 1989 and 1990 at the University of the Reggio Emilia project. The festival continues with the 35 talents selected for Young Italian photography De Luigi Ghirri priceAlways in Palazzo dei Musei, with the projects that can be seen in the photo library of Panizzi Library (A trip in the first twenty years of photography history), LO Space Gerrafor the stories of young partisans and the Maramotti collectionwhere the personal will be set up Viviane Sassen This body made from Stardust.