CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia is delighted to present the five emerging artists selected as part of the European FUTURES programme and the activities to be held therein throughout 2019. The artists selected by Walter Guadagnini, director of the Turinese institute, and by Giangavino Pazzola, programme coordinator, together with a group of international experts are: Domenico Camarda (La Spezia, 1990), Francesca Catastini (Lucca, 1982), Paolo Ciregia (Viareggio, 1987), Irene Fenara (Bologna, 1990), Giaime Meloni (Cagliari, 1984).
The five artists selected will be involved in activities of exhibition, training and networking on both a national and international level, on the basis of a detailed programme, full of moments of reflection and comparison with artists, curators, gallerists and collectors.
THE 2019 CAMERA PROGRAMME
The calendar of activities includes:
- lectio magistralis by Adam Broomberg at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia; workshop with Adam Broomberg from the duo of artists Broomberg&Chanarin, and a meeting with national and international curators at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia;
- lectio magistralis by Joan Fontcuberta at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia;
- five study grants for a module of the Summer Masterclass in Visual Storytelling that the ICP – International Center of Photography in New York will hold at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia;
- participation in Unseen Amsterdam, with activities of an exhibitive, training and relational nature;
- lectio magistralis with an international artist at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (to be defined);
- workshop with international artist and a meeting with national and international curators at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (to be defined);
- site-specific exhibition activities at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (to be defined).
FUTURES (EPP – European Photography Platform) is a platform supported by the European Union focusing on the mapping and support of emerging artists with a view to increasing scope for contact between them and the market. As well as CAMERA, the partners of FUTURES are the UNSEEN Foundation (Amsterdam), FOMU Fotomuseum (Antwerp), PhotoEspaña (Madrid), British Journal of Photography (London), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (Budapest), Foundation of Visual Education (Lodz), Photo Romania Festival (Cluj), Photo Ireland Foundation (Dublin), Festival d’Hyeres (Hyeres), Triennale der Photographie (Hamburg) and the Calvert Journal (London).
FUTURES is co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
The Capa Center is committed to developing the possibilities of Hungarian photography and therefore considers it important that more and more Hungarian photographers take part in domestic and international programs. With this intent, the Budapest Portfolio Review event will be organized for the third time between April 12 and 13, 2019.
The purpose of the professional event is to get participants to consult with renowned Hungarian and foreign experts about their images and to get feedback on their work. The consultants are recognized representatives of the Hungarian and international photography profession (creative artists, gallerists, art historians, head of institutions, agencies, festivals, organizations).
Date of the event
Friday, April 12, 2019 10am – 5pm
Saturday, April 13, 2019 10am – 5pm (assessment and announcement at 7pm)
Venue
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, 8 Nagymező Street, Budapest, Hungary 1065
Studio and Project Room
Budapest Portfolio Review consultants
Olivia Arthur photographer, MAGNUM Photos
Lajos Csontó photographer, visual artist
Irina Chmyneva artistic director, PhotoVista International Festival of Photography
Judit Gellér curator, Capa Center
Angel Luis Gonzalez CEO, PhotoIreland Foundation
Luca Gőbölyös DLA artist, associate professor
Zsolt Kozma artistic director, Inda Gallery
Rafał Milach photographer, MAGNUM Photos
Szilvia Mucsy photographer, director of Budapest Photo Festival
Zita Sárvári director, Deák Erika Gallery
Simona Vidmar senior curator, UGM Marior Art Gallery
Duncan Wooldridge Artist, Writer and Curator, University of the Arts London
Coaching Sessions by Futures members: Capa Center with curator Istvan Viragvolgyi, platform initiator Menno Liauw, curator Rein Desle from FOMU, artistic director of Hamburg Triennale Krzysztof Candrowicz, CAMERA curator Gianga Pazzola, Raphaelle Stopin for the International Festival of Fashion, Photography, and Fashion Accessories in Hyères, curator Ana Morales from PHotoESPAÑA, Catalin Balog Bellu from PhotoRomania, PhotoIreland curator Angel Luis Gonzalez and Justyna Kociszewska from Fotofestiwal Lodz.
The Coaching Sessions are exclusive for Futures artists.
The focus of the coaching sessions will be themes such as giving tools for promoting talents' career, how to deal with an institution such as a museum, how to develop the concept of a project and the relationships of an author with the outer realms like curators and institutions, how to present your work to competitions and reflecting on the talents' artistic practice.
On Thursday 20th Septermber, Futures will open officially its doors to the world.
At 5.30 p.m. Futures will inaugurate the outdoor exhibition in the "Talent Pool" at the Westergasfabriek with a welcoming moment for all the artists and curators involved in the project.
At 6.00 p.m. there will be the official opening of Unseen Amsterdam 2018 and the Futures Narrative exhibition at the Machinegebow on the Westergasfabriek terrain will be open to the public.
Belgium is bursting with photographic talent. Every day the FOMU is overwhelmed with portfolios, websites, blogs and photo books that are looking for a wider audience. To accommodate this young talent, the .tiff platform was established. This summer we put 10 photographers in the spotlight: Alexey Shlyk, Arnaud De Wolf, Calixte Poncelet, Jeroen Bocken, Maria Baoli, Massao Mascaro, Pauline Beugnies, Pauline Niks, Sine by Menxel and Thomas Nolf.
This presentation is part of Futures, a European collaboration that highlights young photographic talent. The FOMU is one of the founders of Futures. Together with nine other European initiators, we create a network of artists, experts and resources to push the boundaries of the European photography world. In September, all selected artists will exhibit their work at UNSEEN Amsterdam.
The Polish Futures Talents Launch will be one of the main parts of the Night of Photography. it will take place during Fotofestiwal’s Opening Weekend - June 21st to June 24th. The venue of the Night of Photography will be the Piotrkowska Street - the longest street in Poland and one of the longest commercial thoroughfares in Europe. The Night of Photography will consist of 5 large format projections (slideshows) in the public space, presenting emerging European photographers. It will be organized in cooperation with other Futures members, the City of Lodz and the Lodz Events Center.
PHotoESPAÑA organises for the second consecutive year a programme of nocturnal projections at the Real Jardín Botánico, a venue of the festival. The garden opens its doors after hours especially on this occasion so that the public can visit the site and enjoy the artistic proposals that are presented within and adapted to the surroundings, creating a night filled with light and sound. This year works of Futures artist wil be projected. The projection will be accompanied by the live music of Haydée Tamara Bunke.
PortfolioMatch within the 7th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, 7th and 8th June 2018
This year Circle of Friends of the House of Photography and the 7th Triennial of Photography Hamburg invite photographers and experts from across the world to make a portfolio review of a special child: the two-day PortfolioMatch. Every photographer has the chance to meet four different internationally renowned experts individually for individual meetings, which are based on mutual interest. The attractive format of a portfolio review gives due consideration to its Workshop character and the equal level of participants in intensive exchange, potential to develop ideas and to build networks.
In cooperation with FUTURES European Photography Platform.
Selected finalists will be invited and presented during UNSEEN Amsterdam.
International experts:
Peggy Sue Amison / Eastwing Dubai, United States
Alessandra Capodacqua / NYU and independent curator, ITALY
Gintaras Cesonis / Kaunas Photography Gallery, LITHUANIA
Alexa Becker / Kehrer Verlag, GERMANY
Lars Boering / World Press Photo, NETHERLANDS
Thomas Borberg / Politics, DENMARK
Diane Dufour / LE BAL, FRANCE
Aga Dwernicka / Cracow Photomonth, POLAND
Ruth Eichhorn / GEO Magazine, GERMANY
Ángel Luis González / PhotoIreland, IRELAND
W.M. Hunt / Dancing Bear Collection, USA
Michael Itkoff / Daylight Books, USA
Nina Kassianou / Independent curator, GREECE
Marina Paulenka / Organ Vida, CROATIA
Arianna Rinaldo / Cortona On Move, SPAIN / ITALY
Nadya Sheremetova / Photo Department, RUSSIA
Enrico Stefanelli / Photolux Lucca, ITALY
Fiona Sweet / Ballarat Photo Biennal, AUSTRALIA
Ingo Taubhorn / Deichtorhallen, GERMANY
Emilia Van Lynden / UNSEEN Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Sebastian Vaida / Photo Romania Festival, ROMANIA
István Virágvölgyi / Robert Capa Center, HUNGARY
Erik Vroons / GUP Magazine, NETHERLANDS
Christoph Wiesner / PARIS PHOTO, FRANCE
Manfred Zollner / fotoMAGAZIN, GERMANY
First appointment of the European FUTURES program for the promotion and support of emerging authors and realities in the photographic field. Appointment to CAMERA with the conference on the theme of the photo book and its contemporary evolutions entitled "Futures: evolutions and contemporary experiments of the photo book" where the formal, conceptual and strategic aspects will be investigated through testimonies and projections of realized projects.
To tell their experience will be BlisterZine (Milan), Rorhof (Bolzano), Skinnerboox (Jesi), Yard Press (Rome), Witty Kiwi (Turin), publishing companies operating in the artistic field with particular attention to the innovation of the photographic language , visual culture and cultural production through experiments and radical changes in the format of the photo book.
During the meeting will be announced the artists selected for exhibitions and activities related to FUTURES 2018, and one of them will dialogue with publishers on projects developed through the use of the book format.
During the meeting, an exhibition of books by the publishing houses invited to the talk will be set up in the Gymnasium hall.
Until November 4th you still can have the chance to visit the exhibition "Coa, Giannico, Mortarotti, Perna, Pingitore, Positano" promoted and hosted by Futures Photography partner CAMERA - Italian Center for Photography in Turin.
The exhibition is the first exposition staged by CAMERA in the field of the European Photography Platform – FUTURES. On the other, the works presented by six emerging artists constitute the initial output of unseen research carried out for this occasion, and which will evolve further over the months to come. The exhibition thus is not conceived in thematic or linguistic sections oriented towards supporting a thesis, although it is designed to provide an overview of the contents and languages that describe contemporary production in the Italian field and, thanks to the future shows and projects, will contribute to making up a major mapping of the state of the art in the field of emerging photography.
The artists invited to take part in the first edition are Umberto Coa (Palermo, 1988), Teresa Giannico (Bari, 1985), Vittorio Mortarotti (Savigliano, 1982), Armando Perna (Reggio Calabria, 1981), Lorenzo Pingitore (Turin, 1985) and Anna Positano (Genoa, 1981), proposed to CAMERA by a selection committee made up of Ilaria Bonacossa (Director of Artissima – Turin), Diane Dufour (director of Le Bal – Paris), Francesca Lavazza (collector), Beatrice Merz (Fondazione Merz – Turin) and Walter Guadagnini (director of CAMERA – Turin).
Umberto Coa presents Ne bastavano quarantacinque (2018), a project developed in collaboration with the Ethno-anthropological Museum of Sutera in which – starting from a particular request for prisoners to work in agriculture put forward by the mayor of the time to the Ministry of War Affairs (1916), from archive images and objects – he generates a story which goes beyond the limits of the linear narrative. An installation made up of elements of a visual and objectual nature reconstructs a particular story set within the small Sicilian town at the start of the century, offering a particular interpretation, midway between reality and fiction.
In Stanza Con Sedia Da Arbitro E Ruota Di Marmo (2018), Teresa Giannico makes an instrumental use of the codes of documentary photography to construct new realities. Starting from a drawing of hers, she represents a domestic interior in which objects display an unnatural relationship between one another. She then goes on to produce paper dioramas to reconstruct these imaginary environments, covering the three-dimensional surfaces of the objects themselves also through a major use of images taken from the web. The models are produced in a fairly undescriptive manner, and once photographed are destroyed.
With the three images Untitled (2018) Vittorio Mortarotti explores the issue of inhabited memory and the ways of creating memory, i.e. the ‘known’ in the social and cultural sense of the everyday in a given community. In order to do this, he shows us examples of people during rites of possession that really take place on one of the islands of the archipelago of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé, showing them in a state of trance. Inhabiting a space generates codes and habits that become the culture of a community, while memory is inhabited by the repetition and the reinterpretation of facts in the continual construction of sense.
The intrinsic fragility of places is the theme focused on by Armando Perna in the series Un paesaggio instabile. Calabria 1783/2018. The first set of a wider-ranging research project, the story starts out from Istoria de fenomeni del Tremoto avvenuto nelle Calabrie (1783), moving through the research of the geographers and historians of Calabria, Zanotti Bianco and Isnardi in the first half of the 20th century right up to a modern-day mapping. The photographs dialogue in an unprecedented manner with boards illustrated by Vivenzio and archive imagery, with a view to documenting how instability and precariousness – be they generated by natural or manmade phenomena – play a decisive role in outlining the characteristic traits of the population and the territory.
In the two shots of the series Parmenide (2018), Lorenzo Pingitore reflects on being, photographing a large sphere, 4.5 metres in diameter placed in ever different settings and architectures, chosen for their capacity to exalt a change between past, present and future, be it imposed by nature or by man. The tame nature of Villa Pisani, and the wild surroundings of Lago Verde enter into dialogue with the sphere, highlighting the process of the change of the perception of both. The places and the sphere, despite being immobile, create a unique whole that will persist over time thanks to the capacity of photography to halt the time in an image.
Lungo Mare Canepa (2018) is the artist’s book produced by Anna Positano, a wander through imagery along the western outskirts of Genoa. Despite the evocative name, the place is presented as a major traffic artery from which the sea cannot even be seen. Walking first along the north side of the road and photographing towards the sea, and then walking back along the road on the Foranea Dam looking inland, Positano takes a shot every seventy steps in order to portray a complete section of the road.