PROGRAM 2017

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SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto, 3

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Exhibitions, residencies, specializations abroad: how to effectively write your own biography and poetic statement with Laura Tori Petrillo
  • 9:00 – 17:00 | A geometry of disorder. Lighting techniques applied to the portrait with Paolo Verzone

18 – 26 NOVEMBER

LUX GALLERIES – THE PHOTO LOUNGE – Studio Massimo Vitali + Momus Architects, via delle conce, 10
from 16:00 to 24:00. closed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Independent space curated by Serena Del Soldato and Nicolas Havette, which will host the proposals of different young galleries in a single exhibition venue together with a bookshop and a lounge / meeting point area where video projections will be organized in a gallery-like environment during the Photolux 2017 inaugural week.
Galleries hosted for the 2017 edition: Le Magasin de Jouets (Arles, FR); LABottega (Pietrasanta, IT); Photographic Warehouses (Naples, IT); San Zenone Space (Reggio Emilia, IT); Mc2gallery (Milan, IT)

SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER

WORKSHOP– via San Micheletto, 3

9:00 – 17:00 | Exhibitions, residencies, specializations abroad: how to effectively write your own biography and poetic statement with Laura Tori Petrillo
9:00 – 17:00 | A geometry of disorder. Lighting techniques applied to the portrait with Paolo Verzone

LEICA TALK – Auditorium Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca – via San Micheletto, 8

  • 16:00 – Tony Gentile talks with Enrico Stefanelli
  • 17:30 – Presentation of the book Everything for a reason. Ten reflections on the photography of Loredana De Pace (ed. Emuse).

MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER -Via San Micheletto, 3

  • 9.30 pm – Screening of the film Robert Doisneau – The lens of wonders by Clémentine Deroudille in collaboration with the Circolo del Cinema di Lucca

THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER – Central Cinema, Via di Poggio Secondo, 36

  • 9.30 pm – Screening of the film Koudelka Shooting Holy Land by Gilad Baram in collaboration with the Circolo del Cinema di Lucca

SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER

WORKSHOP -via San Micheletto, 3

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Edit for Impact with Jenny Smets and Magdalena Herrera, in collaboration with World Press Photo

PORTFOLIO READINGS -Real Collegio – Piazza del Collegio 13

  • 9:00 – 13:00 // 15:00 – 17:00 | Pierre André Podbielski (Podbielski Contemporary); Elena Boille (International); Jim Casper (LensCulture); Caroline Hunter (The Guardian); Ângela Ferreira (Independent Curator); Marcel Fortini (Center Méditerranéen de la Photographie, Bastia); Krzysztof Candrowitz (Fotofestiwal, Lodz); Mindaugas Kavaliauskas (Kaunas Photo Festival); Emilia van Lynden (Unseen Amsterdam); Fred Boucher (Photaumnales, Beauvais)

LEICA TALK – Real Collegio, piazza del Collegio 13

  • 12:00 – Awarding of the winner and finalists of the PhotoBoox Award 2017
  • 12:15 – Presentation of the volume La Guerra. A Sicilian story (Postcart Edizioni) with the author Tony Gentile and the publisher Claudio Corrivetti, follows book signing
  • 15:00 – Presentation of the book Life in Syria. Sguardi di Aleppo with the publisher Seipersei
  • 15:30 – Presentation of the new MAPS project, with Massimo Berruti, Simona Ghizzoni and Alessandro Credo
  • 16:00 – Presentation of the volume 55 photographers (Postcart Edizioni) with the author Leonello Bertolucci and the publisher Claudio Corrivetti
  • 16:30 – Gianni Berengo Gardin: “Half a century between history and photography” with Francesco Cito, in collaboration with New Old Camera
  • 18:00 – Walter Guadagnini talks with Bernard Plossu

PHOTOLUX PARTY -Casa del Boia (near the Baluardo San Salvatore)
live music and free bar starting at 10.30pm
cost of the ticket: 20 €

SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto, 3:

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | Edit for Impact with Jenny Smets and Magdalena Herrera, in collaboration with World Press Photo.

PORTFOLIO READINGS -Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio 13, Lucca:

  • 9:00 – 13:00 – Daniela and Guido Giudici (Consarc Gallery, Chiasso); Andrei Polikanov (Photographer); Laura Serani (Independent Curator); Rebecca Simons (Photo-editor and curator).

LEICA TALK – Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio 13, Lucca:

  • 11:00 – Between memory and modernity: Contemporary Israeli Photography with Maurizio De Bonis, Pierre André Podbielski and Orith Youdovich, moderated by Gigliola Foschi
  • 11:30 – Presentation of the book Hallelujah Toscana (Contrasto) with Marco Paoli, Giuseppe Di Piazza and Alba Donati
  • 12:00 – Presentation of the book Memories of a war reporter with the author Livio Senigalliesi, book signing follows
  • 12:30 – The new NP fineart cards based on Antonio Manta’s experience, quality and prerogatives with Antonio Manta
  • 15:00 – Presentation of the Center Méditerranéen de la Photographie, Bastia with Marcel Fortini, director and founder, moderated by Enrico Ratto and Chiara Ruberti
  • 16:00 – Presentation of the book The battle of images (Postcart Edizioni) with Giorgio Barrera and the publisher Claudio Corrivetti, followed by book signing.
  • 16:30 – Presentation of the book Jazz Tales (Postcart Edizioni) with the author Pino Ninfa and the publisher Claudio Corrivetti, followed by book signing.

FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto, 3:

  • 16:00 – 19:00 | Color and Creativity with Franco Fontana

SATURDAY 2 DECEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto, 3:

  • 16:00 – 19:00 | Color and Creativity with Franco Fontana
  • 9:00 – 17:00 | On the development of the RAW file in two thousand and seventeen (almost 2018) – with Adobe Photoshop / Camera Raw or Lightroom with Lorenzo Colloreta

LEICA TALK

  • 11:00  – Cinema Centrale, Via di Poggio Secondo, 36: InstaMeet and intarget Photolux Award 2017
  • 21:00 – Church of San Francesco, Piazza San Francesco: Mediterranean perspectives. Tales of migration, photography and life, in-depth debate on Migration and the current migrant crisis with Commander Cosimo Nicastro, Head of the Coast Guard Press Office; Giovanni Maria Bellu, president of the Rome Charter Association; Stephane Jaquemet, High Commissioner for Refugees Delegate for Southern Europe; Vittorio Di Trapani, journalist of Rai News 24; Alessandro Credo, an Italian photographer who has documented the lives and landings of migrants throughout the Mediterranean; Perla Azzurra Buonaccorsi, nurse of the health teams of CISOM – Italian Relief Corps of the Order of Malta, on board the ships and patrol boats of the Coast Guard, moderates the meeting Andrea Michelozzi, president of Comunicare Digitale // in collaboration with the Fondazione cassa di risparmio di Lucca

SUNDAY 3 DECEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto, 3:

  • 16:00 – 19:00 | Color and Creativity with Franco Fontana
  • 9:00 – 17:00 | On the development of the RAW file in two thousand and seventeen (almost 2018) – with Adobe Photoshop / Camera Raw or Lightroom with Lorenzo Colloreta

LEICA TALK – Auditorium Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, via San Micheletto, 8

  • 16:00 – Valentina Vannicola, winner of the Portfolio Readings of European Photography and Marilisa Cosello who was awarded the special mention in dialogue with the photographer Bruno Cattani and the gallery owner Clelia Belgrade
  • 18:00 – Presentation of the book Il seventh man (Contrasto) with Michele Smargiassi and Chiara Lencioni

THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER

  • 9.00 pm – Teatro del Giglio, Piazza del Giglio 13/15: Posa time with Danilo Rea at the piano, Michela Lombardi voice and photographs by Pino Ninfa

FRIDAY 8 DECEMBER

LEICA TALK – Auditorium Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, via San Micheletto, 8

  • 16:00 – Presentation of the project and book Limine, by der * lab, with Vincenzo Labellarte and the curators Massimo Siragusa and Irene Alison
  • 17:00  – World Press Photo 2017. The Italian winners, moderated by Enrico Stefanelli [canceled due to photographers’ assignment]

SATURDAY 9 DECEMBER

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto, 3

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | The Documentary Impulse with Stuart Franklin

LEICA TALK – Auditorium Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, via San Micheletto, 8

  • 15:00 – Presentation of the works of Nicolò Panzeri and Emilia Rosa Pizzonia, graduates of the Studio Marangoni Foundation, chosen by Enrico Stefanelli, with the director Martino Marangoni
  • 16:00 – Collective Power! with TerraProject Photographers
  • 17:00 – “Maledetti Fotografi”: Benedetta Donato talks with Enrico Ratto [canceled due to organizational unforeseen]
  • 18:00 – Domingo Milella, winner of the Photolux Award 2017 in dialogue with Tobia Bezzola, director of the Museum Folkwang in Essen

SUNDAY 10 DECEMBER

  • 11:00 – 13:00 – Guinigi Chapel, Via della Quarquonia, 1 / a: MIBACT for photography, new strategies and new views on the territory – # 19 – Lucca. The gaze of the photographers, moderated by Lorenza Bravetta, speakers: Aurelio Amendola, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Alessandro Calabrese, Emanuele Camerini, Francesca Catastini, Paolo Ciregia, Zeno Colantoni, Gianluca Panella, Paola De Pietri, Simone Donati, Alex Majoli, Martino Maragoni, Domingo Milella , Dario Orlandi, Federico Scoppa, Lido Vannucchi, Massimo Vitali and Francesco Zizola

WORKSHOP – via San Micheletto, 3:

  • 9:00 – 17:00 | The Documentary Impulse with Stuart Franklin

LEICA TALK – Auditorium Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, via San Micheletto, 8

  • 16:00 – Presentation of Sara Munari’s latest book Storytelling to whom? practical guide for storyteller photographers (emuse)
  • 17:00 – Mustafa Sabbagh in dialogue with Enrico Ratto [canceled due to organizational unforeseen]