The great success of the seventh edition of PhotoVogue Festival

WHAT WOULD SUSAN SONTAG SAY? The contradiction of overexposure, a debate on how the ubiquity of visuals designs our means to feel, was the concept of the seventh edition of PhotoVogue Competition, the initial aware vogue pictures pageant that focuses on the popular ground in between ethics and aesthetics. Between 17 and 20 November 2022, all-around 10,000 persons visited the exhibitions and participated in the talks organised at the Foundation Milano cultural centre.

With the existence of far more than 50 of the artists included, the programme contained many gatherings together with a masterclass by Alfredo Jaar entitled “Teach Us to Outgrow our Madness”, which opened the competition, a discuss with the journalist and author David Rieff, panels with Yashica Olden, Yelena Yemchuk, Aïda Muluneh and Roe Ethridge, leading figures in the photography landscape these as Fred Ritchin and Susie Linfield, and with Emanuele Coccia, Maria Luisa Frisa and Vogue’s European Editorial Director, Edward Enninful.

6 exhibitions were being offered in the areas at Base Milano, some dedicated to social and political subjects, whilst some others also offered conscious fashion pictures, with artists who are the motorists of alter by way of photos and movies that intention to construct a a lot more culturally inclusive entire world.

Relating to the agony of other individuals: introduced the most iconic images and footage of catastrophic gatherings in our the latest history, without having displaying them visually, but rather demonstrating them via their published description. The community was as a result invited to mentally visualise the photos, a provocation that problems our job as customers of images, to get us to be lively and responsible spectators and not passive and distracted voyeurs.

Facial area Ahead: Redefining the Vogue Deal with: The most highly effective and assorted handles from all the international editions of Vogue featured in an exhibition highlighting the perform Vogue has accomplished above the decades to foster a more inclusive representation of splendor.

The next terrific trend graphic makers: the exhibition introduced 40 artists from 24 various nations chosen by an international jury, the result of the very first World wide Multimedia Open Phone, supported by all editions of Vogue throughout the world to establish the most talented creators of style photos.

Italian Panorama: introduced 25 artists from PhotoVogue’s first Regional Open up Phone, devoted to Italy as a tribute to PhotoVogue’s country of origin, open up to all genres – from manner to documentary, from art to reportage – and to all media, from images to video, illustration, to 3D art or combos of any of these disciplines.