The world of photography

I don’t know if after this terrible pandemic passes everything will go back to the way it was before People will decide this when they feel safe, and this I believe will happen when there is a vaccine I have heard many rumors during these months about the pandemic I think all the terrible events […]

125 shots on display. The exhibition, with free admission, will be open until Sept. 5, 2021 “The restart in my opinion is not to start from where we were, but to add what has been learned.” These are the words written in the exhibition catalog by Giovanni Laviosa, President of the Carlo Laviosa Foundation. On

As per the call for entries for the 2019 edition of “Photography and the World of Work,” sponsored by the Carlo Laviosa Foundation and the City of Livorno, a good part of the photos on display at “I Granai di Villa Mimbelli” were exhibited in Paris. All the participants in the final stage of the

The Carlo Laviosa Foundation and the Municipality of Livorno, in collaboration with Fotoclub Nove, a FIAF 2283 (Italian Federation of Photographic Associations) affiliated club, and the DeFactory association, promoted the second edition of the “Photography and the World of Work” competition.

The Carlo Laviosa Foundation is a partner in an important initiative dedicated to Daniele Dainelli’s photographic archive. On May 11, at 6:30 p.m., the exhibition “Photographic Memory, History of a Collective Recovery” will open in Livorno’s Biblioteca Labronica Bottini dell’Olio. The exhibition, with free admission, will remain open until June 30, 2019. On the occasion

The Carlo Laviosa Foundation, a partner in the project “Photographic Memory, History of a Collective Recovery,” produced the video “Photographic Memory – Recovery of the Daniele Dainelli Archive.” “Produce this short paper on the recovery of the Dainelli photo archive. – explains artistic director Serafino Fasulo – allowed us to emphasize themes dear to our

I always think it’s a matter of angle. There is the one that doesn’t allow us to see what would be crystal clear just by moving a little bit.Thank you to the photographers who have represented a life that is close to us but that we don’t always see. Thank you to those who give

A year and a half later than planned, Martin Parr’s moment has finally arrived. The exhibition will open to the public from 25th September to 12th December 2021 at the Granai di Villa Mimbelli in Livorno. It took determination not to give up on this event threatened by the pandemic but in the end the

Walls protect, hide and demarcate. Often, walls divide and our recent history, indeed very recent, is full of examples of walls being erected in the name of some all-important cause. A wall is built, brick by brick; an opening can be added but a wall is never fully open. If it’s fully open it’s no

Once upon a time there was tourism. Grand hotels in places of renown, guests in evening dress, waiters in uniform or luxury Mediterranean cruises spring to mind, but also the small hotels with a panoramic view and local cuisine, the bed and breakfast booked from one year to the next, home-from-home, « same beach, same sea ».