The theme of the tenth edition of FOTOGRAFIA – International Festival of Rome aims to tackle the unique relationship established between photography and the land, in the deepest and most intimate sense of the word, based on a genuine analysis of the close relationship between the photographers and their belonging to a place, and in many cases their actual identification. It is the result of an increasingly pressing need to seek one's "motherland": everyone responds in their own way, examining lands that belong to them, whether they are old or new, large or small, real or virtual, with a completely personal documentation, which is the fruit of their life and the need to return or move away. The Festival at MACRO Testaccio Museum includes: Motherland, group show curated by Marco Delogu, which includes works by Alec Soth, Tim Davis, Guy Tillim, David Spero, Leonie Purchas, David Farrell, Tod Papageorge, Anders Petersen, Guido Guidi, Paolo Ventura and Antonio Biasiucci. La belle dame sans merci, the ninth edition of the Rome Commission assigned to Alec Soth and curated by Marco Delogu. The three exhibitions: Wherever I lay down my camera is home curated by Paul Wombell with works by André Cepeda, Julian Germain with Patricia Azevedo and Murilo Godoy, Eva Leitolf, Wiebke Loeper and Nigel Shafran; Datascapescurated by Valentina Tanni with works by Mathieu Bernard-Reymond and Rick Silva; The place where I belong curated by Marc Prust with works by Chris Harrison, Katharine MacDaid, Bruno Boudjelal and Rania Matar. Mizu no oto — Sound of water, a group show curated by 3/3 with works by Rinko Kawauchi, Lieko Shiga, Asako Narahashi, Yumiko Utsu, Mayumi Hosokura; together with Little big press — Focus on Japan, a selection of the most interesting Japanese photographic books during 2010 — 2011, by publishers as Artbeat publishers, Foil, Little more and many others. New Dutch storytellers, a collective of young Dutch photographers curated by Rob Hornstra, with works by Anne Geen, Anna Dasovic, Willem Popelier and Rob Hornstra. Solo shows by italian photographers such as Stefano Graziani curated by Francesco Zanot, Alessandro Imbriaco curated by Renata Ferri, Lorenzo Maccotta curated by Giovanna Calvenzi, Francesco Millefiori curated by Stefano Ruffa, Valentina Vannicola curated by Benedetta Cestelli Guidi. Two days of lectures and conversations with photographers, critics and curators as Alec Soth, Rinko Kawauchi, Asako Narahashi, Tod Papageorge, Sebastian Hau, Leonie Hampton, and Ferdinand Brueggeman. For the first time the Festival also hosts three international booksellers, Le Bal and Plac'art from Paris and Dirk Bakker from Amsterdam, with their rare books, the finest pearls of photographic publishing.

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