Be twenty years old. European photography looks at the Z – Reggio Emilia Generation

Reggio Emilia – “I was twenty years old again …”. Which adult has never said? A thought that resembles avoidance, perhaps loudly pronounced in an attempt to return to wet in the water of the youth and lightness, at a time when everything is still possible.
But what for a young man, today, are being twenty years old? HyperConnessi, but in many cases extreme alone, personally with a complete contradiction age, the children of the Z -generation rediscover the importance and they have to fight for their rights and for a fairer future.
Bovenal is het aantal Europees fotografienummer van twintig fotografie, het festival gepromoveerd en georganiseerd door de Palazzo Magnani Foundation en door de gemeente Reggio Emilia, met de bijdrage van de Emilia-Romagna-regio, verwacht van 24 april tot 8 juni in Reggio Emilia, een stad die terugkeert om de veranderingen van de ogen van de ogen van de ogen te observeren, is een van dit jaar aansprakelijk, is To this year.

“Being twenty years” was the theme chosen by the artistic direction of the festival consisting of Tim Clark, Walter Guadagnini and Luce Lebart.

Luigi Ghirri, Turin, Rivoli, 1985 © Heirs Luigi Ghirri

I Monasteries of San Pietro They will be the protagonists in the city by welcoming ten exhibitions. The project Dido Moriyama: a retrospectiveedited by Thyago Nogueira of the Moreira Salles Institute, the Japanese photographer, pioneer of the street photography, will tell, who investigated the post -war Japanese society during his sixty years of career, who tells the gorge created after the militar occupation of Japan, between the United States. In the only stop in Italy, Moriyama also arrives in European photography with rare photo albums, magazines and large installations.

The exhibition project Seasickness By Claudio, Majorana will instead invite a trip to the complex universe of adolescence, including doubts, questions, fears, thoughts that spontaneously move against the background of suggestive landscapes: summer camps, forests, silent cemeteries and other spaces in the periphery of Vilnius, in Lithuania. If you are with You don’t die Ghazal Golshiri and Marie Sumalla tell the historical rebellion of the Iranian people in the aftermath of the tragic death of twenty -year -old Mahsa Amini, the British photographer Vinca Petersen collects in the project Rage and riots Shots of his travels throughout Europe, places that photographically tell a precise state of mind, that short moment of total freedom that is observed by participating in a rave, a meeting, an event. The illegality of these events, combined with the tension that characterizes them, gives what the author calls the “subversive joy” that is revealed by these images. Renew control Instead, it is the fruit of the work of Toma Gerzha, a young photographer of Russian descent cultivated in Amsterdam, whose research focuses on the life and environment of the Z -generation in Russia and Eastern Europe, influenced by traditions and social media and politics.

We change location. Palazzo da Mosto will be the frame of a series of projects that characterize this edition, such as the European Photography Client – made by Federica Sasso who, with the project entitled Intangiblefocuses on the life of young care providers on the territory of Reggio Emilia – or the exhibition dedicated to photographic books, the two winning projects of the Open Call, The Collective of the Special Dichottoventicinque and that of Weworld and eventually made the exhibition in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Beiroet.

Ra di Martino, Electric Whispers 3, Beirut 2024 © The Artist

The exhibition Electric whisper Van Rä di Martino, edited by Maria Rosa Sossai, investigates the importance of the role of aggregation places and meeting for young people who live in Lebanon, in a dramatic period, upset by the grain of conflicts. From 2023 the artist approached the youth world to study what virtual and physical meeting places were. To embrace the festival, many other partners who are attracted around it, organized by the most important cultural institutions in the city and are hosted in their spaces.

The exhibition Luigi Ghirri. Photography lessons, Compiled by Ilaria Campeermi, it is room for Palazzo dei Musei instead. The route comes from the photography lessons that Ghirri held at the University of the Reggio Emilia Project between 1989 and 1990, an opportunity to follow up and treat it, as well as deepening the history of photography, presented and inserted by the author in the broader context in the history of images. Always Palazzo dei Musei becomes the ground floor of the 12th edition of Young Italian photography Luigi Ghirri PrizeThe open call promoted by the municipality of Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with some international festivals, dedicated to improving the talents of photography under 35 in Italy. Documents and engravings that embrace the first 20 years of the history of photography in the collections of the photo library, who arrived in the Library Through Donations and acquisitions, preserved with the aim of documenting the history of the playhickaryques Library which participates in the 2025 edition with the exhibition Slightly Take Monica Leoni Lone and Elisabeth signed, with Laures Gasparinies.

The route of the exhibition has rare examples of photos about savory paper, countless Daguerrotypes from the Mandarin and Davoli collections, together with the prestigious collection of Michael G. Jacob.

Thaddè Comar, Itsring_Howwasyourdream © Thaddè Comar

The exhibition Volpe Laila Slim and the others. Weersta twenty years Composed by Stefania Carretti, Lorenzo Immovilli and Erika Parfumieri for Spazio Gerra Ee by Massimo Storchi (Historian) and Marco Cerri (sociologist) for iMistoreco Ideally Expansion on the square of the Gerra room and the portico of the Gerra’s Gerra room room The Italian resistance, in the context of the 80th birthday of the birthday of the 80th birthday of liberation.
Daily life, challenges, gender emancipation, ethical choices and the environmental context will activate a reflection on what it means to be twenty years old in an era of conflicts. Connected to the festival, presents the Maramotti collection This body made from StardustBroad personal exposure of Viviane Sassen, consisting of more than fifty photos and a video work taken from 2005 to 2025, to which some works have been made specially made for the occasion. Sassen invites to enter its versatile, dreamy and seductive universe, steeped in surrealism, in dialogue with a few sculptures from the Maramotti collection.

To enrich the festival’s offer, just like every year, a large calendar with appointments between conferences, meetings with the artists, presentation of books, workshops, which will accompany visitors to the inaugural days – 24, 25, 26 and 27 April – until June 8 – until 8 June.