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 theDeFactory association, promoted the second edition of the “Photography and the World of Work” competition.
The 2019 edition had the theme “How industry interacts with landscape and social life.”
The participants’ portfolios of five images were evaluated by the jury composed of Antonella Alboni (Carlo Laviosa Foundation board member), Marco Barsanti (photographer, printer and lecturer), Valeria Cioni (representative of Livorno City Council), Carlo Lucarelli (FIAF regional delegate for Tuscany) and Martin Vegas (ImageNation art director).
The winner of the second edition of the photography competition is Lorenzo Leone of Naples.
Second prize goes to Fabio Capaccioli of Rosignano Marittimo, third prize goes to Tiziano Donati of Piombino, fourth prize goes to Tony Martorelli (pseudonym of Paolo Ciriello) of Livorno, and fifth prize goes to Marco Marcone of Rome.
Also awarded was the Targa Rotary Castiglioncello by President Massimiliano Barcali to Silvia Tampucci, of Livorno, for artistic qualities and creativity. “The competition promoted by the Carlo Laviosa Foundation,” says artistic director Serafino Fasulo. aimed to encourage a reading of industry in anthropological terms, an investigation that would bring out how much the long wave of employment in industry is reflected in the infinite facets of living.
The theme allowed for a highly articulated photographic work.
The industrial structure was represented as a phagocyting Moloch or as a monument of contemporaneity, sharp, elegant, almost embedded in nature.
Industry that threatens us, industry that serves as a backdrop to the representation of a tenaciously, sometimes obtusely, pleasure-seeking humanity, industry that evokes a recent past of probable prosperity that has left only traces cloaked in nostalgia.
It would also have been interesting to have had narratives/portfolios that concern the way industry is experienced, that enter the body of the building to plumb its mechanisms, the multiple roles that humans within it play “. “I wouldlike to thank the Laviosa Foundation,” says Livorno City Councilor for Culture Simone Lenzi. for the cultural contribution it makes to the city with the wide-ranging Photography and the World of Work project, carried out in sharing with the City Council.
A project related to the language of photography that has allowed the city to approach the world of photography through exhibition, production and educational moments, first of all – I like to remember it – the exhibition of Letizia Battaglia who, with her extraordinary shots, literally enchanted the city.
Now this new exhibition, the result of a photography competition on the theme ‘How industry interacts with landscape and social life.’
Numerous images extrapolated from the portfolios of photographers from all over the world that tell us how industry is declined in the landscape, in our daily lives, in our habits and in the environment that is before our eyes, but that we often fail to capture “.
The first selected will have a prize of 1,200 euros, the second selected 1,000 euros and the third 800 euros.
Awardees and mentioned will have the opportunity to exhibit at the Paris Photo Off fair, as part of the ImageNation exhibition, curated by DeFactory Cultural Association, scheduled from Friday, November 8 to Sunday, November 10, 2019, which is the month Paris dedicates to photography.
The awardees’ portfolios will be on display at the exhibition “How Industry Interacts with Landscape and Social Life” at the Granaries of Villa Mimbelli, Livorno, from Sept. 21 to Oct. 20, 2019.
Also on display are some shots extrapolated from the portfolios of Franco Biondi, Francesco Martinelli, Simona Simoncini, Elide Cataldo, Francesca Giari, Michele Cimini, Olmo Bisigato, Aldo Ciriello, Marco Barini, Simone Stefanelli, Laura Bolognesi, Laura Messina, Gabor Sos and Simona Moranino.
A total of 48 photographs are on display.
On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalog of the photo contest was published with all the photographs exhibited at Villa Mimbelli.
Hours: Friday 4-7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-7 p.m.
Free admission. Carlo Laviosa Foundation Press office manager Daniela Salvestroni dsalvestroni@gmail.com
