PROGRAM 2015

SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Projects and Visions with Martino Marangoni, director of the Studio Marangoni Foundation.

LEICA TALK – Headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, Piazza San Giusto

  • 10:00 – Luigi Ficacci (Superintendent for the Fine Arts and Landscape of the provinces of Lucca and Massa Carrara), Mons. Italo Castellani (Archbishop of Lucca), Fabio Lazzari, president of the FMR-UTET Grandi Opere publishing group, with the photographer Aurelio Amendola present the book “The Basilica of San Pietro“, published by FMR and illustrated with Amendola’s photographs

LEICA TALK – Auditorium of the Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation, Piazza San Martino

  • 15:30 – Presentation of the book “Portfolio! Construction and reading of the photographic sequences” with the author Augusto Pieroni.
  • 16:30 – Photography and art – how the price of a photographic work is formed and the author’s quotation with Roberto Tomesani, general coordinator of the National Association of Professional Photographers TAU Visual.
  • 21:00 – Screening of the documentary film “Passion and Reason“, made on the occasion of the last exhibition of the Shroud in Turin – Directed by Sante Altizio

SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Projects and Visions with Martino Marangoni, director of the Studio Marangoni Foundation.

LEICA TALK – Auditorium of the Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation, Piazza San Martino

  • 10:30 – Irene Alison and Fabio Moscatelli present the new books “I-revolution” (Postcart) and “Giole. Free time notebook “(DER * LAB)
  • 12:00 – Nicolò Degiorgis, photographer, presents his project “Hidden Islam“
  • 15:30 – Presentation of the book “More than fifty years of magnificent failures” (Electa) with the author Oliviero Toscani, photographer

FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER

LEICA TALK – Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio

  • 18:00 – Presentation of the book “The equilibrist photographer, acrobatics to communicate with images” with the author Sara Munari, photographer.

SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Editing and narrative impact with Magdalena Herrera, Director of Photography of Geo Francia and Rebecca Simons, Senior Producer and Project Manager of World Press Photo, in collaboration with World Press Photo
  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Visual storytelling with James Estrin, Senior Photographer of The New York Times
  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Charles Fréger, photographer

PORTFOLIO REVIEWS – Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio

  • 9:00 – 13:00
    Dimitri Beck, editor of Polka magazine
    Daria Bonera, Agent
    Benedetta Donato, Independent Curator
    Maira Dudareva, Director of Latvian Museum of Photography
    Anne Foures, Portfolio Reading Manager of Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
    Andréa Holzherr, Global Exhibitions Manager Magnum Photos
    Caroline Hunter, Picture Editor of The Guardian Weekend Magazine
    Sara Munari, Photographer
    Amber Terranova, freelance photoeditor and marketing manager of the Schilt publishing house
  • 14:30 – 19:00
    Daphné Anglès, Picture Editor of the New York Times
    Alessandra Capodacqua, Photographer and photography teacher
    Jim Casper, Director of Lens Culture magazine
    Claudio Corrivetti, Director of the Postcart publishing house
    Teun van der Heijden, Graphic designer
    Maurizio Rebuzzini, Director of the FOTOgraphia magazine
    Rebecca Simons, Senior Producer and Project Manager World Press Photo
    Erik Vroons, Editor-at-Large GUP Magazine and Newdawn Paper

LEICA TALK – Auditorium of the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca Foundation, via San Micheletto

  • 10:30 – Mario Calabresi, director of La Stampa, with Lorenza Bravetta, director of the Chamber. Italian Center for Photography, Turin, Paolo Pellegrin, Magnum Photos photographer, Irene Opezzo photo editor of La Stampa and Giulia Ticozzi, collaborator of La Stampa: open jury of the “Sunday Photographers” contest organized by Photolux in collaboration with La Stampa

LEICA TALK – Auditorium of the Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation, Piazza San Martino

  • 11:00 – Wiktoria Woijiechowska, winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2105
  • 12:00 – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, talk and book-signing
  • 15:30 – Lars Boering, World Press Photo director with Alessia Glaviano, senior photo editor of Vogue Italia and David Campbell
  • 17:30 – Karin Kaufman, Art Director Leica Galleries International, Inas Fayed, director Leica Fotografie International and Andrea Pacella, Marketing Manager Leica Camera Italia

LEICA TALK – Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio

  • 11:00 – Presentation of the book “Armenian Wound” with the author Antonella Monzoni, photographer
  • 12:00 – Presentation of the FP Mag magazine with the director Sandro Iovine
  • 14:00 – Presentation of Burn magazine with photo editor Diego Orlando
  • 15:00 – Presentation of the book “Hotel Immagine” with the author Simone Donati, photographer
  • 16:00 – Presentation of the book “Critical Generation. Vol. III “with the authors Luca Panaro and Marcella Manni and the publisher Danilo Montanari
  • 17:00 – Presentation of the magazine “Eyes Open!” with the responsible directorBarbara Silbe and the creative director Manuela Cigliutti.
  • 18:00 – Presentation of the book  “Tuscany Contemporary Photography” with Walter Farnesi

PHOTOLUX NIGHT – Auditorium di San Romano, Piazza San Romano

  •  21:00
    /awarding of the winners of the 2015 Photolux contests
    / face to face with Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly
    / Photolux Award to Joel-Peter Witkin
    ticket cost: € 10.00

PHOTOLUX PARTY – Casa del Executioner (near Baluardo San Salvatore)

  • from 23:00
    ticket cost: € 15.00

SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER

WORKSHOP – Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca- San Micheletto Foundation

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Editing and narrative impact with Magdalena Herrera, Director of Photography of Geo Francia and Rebecca Simons, Senior Producer and Project Manager of World Press Photo, in collaboration with World Press Photo
  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Visual storytelling with James Estrin, senior photographer of The New York Times
  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Charles Fréger, photographer

PORTFOLIO REVIEWS – Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio

  • 9:00 – 13:00
    Elena Boille, Deputy Director and Head of the Photography Department of Internazionale
    Lucy Conticello, Director of Photography at M, Le Monde magazine
    Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, Artistic Director of Kaunas Photo Festival
    Irene Opezzo, Photo Editor of La Stampa
    Marco Pinna, National Geographic Photo Editor
    Barbara Silbe and Michela Cigliutti, Directors of EyesOpen magazine!
    Giulia Ticozzi, Special photography projects for La Stampa

LEICA TALK – Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio

  • 10:00 – Presentation of the documentary “I remember Mario Giacomelli” with the author Lorenzo Cicconi Massi, photographer and Maria Teresa Cerretelli
  • 11:00 – Mr. Schilt and Amber Terranova present the book “Under the Skin of Reality” on the work of Mario Giacomelli
  • 12:00 – Self-Publishing PhotoLux Award: discussion with jury members Michael Mack, founder and director of the MACK publishing house; Jim Casper, editor of Lens Culture magazine; Teun Van Der Heiden, graphic designer; Arianna Arcara, photographer and co-founder of Cesura Publishing and Claudio Corrivetti, founder and director of the Postcart publishing house
  • 14:00 – Presentation of the book “Fashion Tribes“, with the author Daniele Tamagni and the graphic designer Stefano Bianchi
  • 15:00 – Azu Nwagbogu, artistic director of Lagos Photo – Nigeria, with Patrick Willocq, photographer
  • 16:00 – Roberto Del Carlo Photolux Award: discussion with the members of the jury Daphné Anglès (The New York Times), Lorenza Bravetta (Camera), Luigi Pierro, CEO Roberto Del Carlo and Dimitri Beck, director of Polka magazine
  • 17.00 – Presentation of the Towel Publishing publishing project
  • 18:00 – James Estrin, senior photographer of The New York Times

THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER

FILM – Central Cinema

  • 9.00 pm – Documentary film screening In search of Vivian Maier, in collaboration with the Circolo del Cinema di Lucca.

SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | iPhoneography with Alessandra Capodacqua, photographer and photography teacher
    9:00 – 17:00 | Stories! with Paolo Woods, photographer
    9:00 – 17:00 | Andrea Boccalini, in collaboration with Leica Akademie Italia

LEICA TALK – Auditorium of the Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation, Piazza San Martino

  • 10:30 – The 8 streets of InQuadra – the experience of the first year of the street photography collective InQuadra with Luigi Casentini, Alex Liverani, Mariano Silletti, Salvatore Matarazzo, Benedetta Falugi, Roberto Deri, Matteo Sigolo, Luca Bottazzi
  • 11:30 – Presentation of the book “Humoral recipes. Il bis” with the author Isabella Pedicini, writer.
  • 15:30 – Presentation of the book “Refuge – Christians of the Middle East” (Schilt) with the author Linda Dorigo, photographer
  • 16:30 – Daniele De Luigi and Andrea Botto present the project “Photography in the National Park: the Apennine Pievi“
  • 17.30 – Massimo Sestini, winner of World Press Photo 2015, presents the video Mediterraneo, our liquid frontier, by Gabriella Guido and Rosalba Ferba, with texts by Erri De Luca, photographs by Massimo Sestini and music by Giovanni Luisi

SUNDAY 6 DECEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | iPhoneography with Alessandra Capodacqua, photographer and photography teacher
    9:00 – 17:00 | Stories! with Paolo Woods, photographer
    9:00 – 17:00 | Andrea Boccalini, in collaboration with Leica Akademie Italia

LEICA TALK – Auditorium of the Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation, Piazza San Martino

  • 10:30 – Photoshop and Lightroom: advanced and more efficient image management and photo editing with the Wacom graphic tablet with Lorenzo Colloreta
  • 12:00 – Leonardo Bertuccelli, Martina Melchionno, Mattia Micheli and Pietro Viti, former students of the Studio Marangoni Foundation, present their work. Moderated by Martino Marangoni
  • 15:30 – Sara Guerrini and Francesca Belgiojoso present the book “Beyond the image – Unconscious and Photography” published by Postcart

MONDAY 7 DECEMBER

CONCERT – Teatro del Giglio

  • 9.00 pm – Between spirit and matter: Paolo Fresu (trumpet, flugelhorn, effects) and Dino Rubino (piano, trumpet) with photographs by Pino Ninfa
    A Photolux Festival and Teatro del Giglio co-production

TUESDAY 8 DECEMBER

LEICA TALK – Auditorium of the Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation, Piazza San Martino

  • 12:00 – Presentation of the “Radicalia” project, best portfolio at Les Rencontres d’Arles with the author Piero Martinello, photographer
  • 15:00 – Is Photography in social media still photography? That is, if I send you my dog’s photo, why do you think I want to be a photographer? with Linda Ferrari, Photoskine blogger and Michele Smargiassi, La Repubblica
  • 16:30 – Social photography and the future of the decisive moment with Riccardo Bonuccelli and Raffaella Pierpaoli (intarget).

SATURDAY 12 DECEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Towel Publishing and Marco Casino
  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Visual storytelling with Massimo Mastrorillo, in collaboration with Leica Akademie Italia

LEICA TALK – Auditorium of the Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation, Piazza San Martino

  • 11:30 – Mobile photography with Giancarlo Beltrame
  • 15:00 – Image and representation of women in the media. New reference models with Lorella Zanardo, Paolo Iabichino and Isabella de Maddalena
  • 17.00 – Italian World Press Photo 2015 winners: Arianna Arcara (Cesura, for Andy Rocchelli), Fulvio Bugani, Turi Calafato, Paolo Marchetti, Michele Palazzi, Massimo Sestini, Gianfranco Tripodo and Paolo Verzone with Alessia Glaviano.

SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Towel Publishing with Marco Casino
  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Visual storytelling with Massimo Mastrorillo, in collaboration with Leica Akademie Italia

LEICA TALK – Auditorium of the Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation, Piazza San Martino

  • 10:30 – Presentation of the book “DÚO 04 Sobre la Frontera Sur” with the author Gianfranco Tripodo, winner of the World Press Photo 2015
  • 11:30 – Photography does not exist with Efrem Raimondi, photographer
  • 15:00 – Ethics in travel photography: what photographic workshops are and what they are for. Presentation by FotoImage, with Fulvio Bugani, World Press Photo 2015 winning photographer
  • 16:00 – Paolo Verzone, World Press Photo 2015 winner
  • 17:00 – Presentation of the book “Asylums” (Contrast) with the author Gianni Berengo Gardin, photographer and Professor Isabella Tobino.