Wednesday 19th July, an opportunity to discover the work of four great photographers, who will be guests at the next Festival.

"I understood that photography has a much closer relationship with writing than it does with painting" - Fernando Scianna

This year’s edition of Festivaletteratura will dedicate a large space to photography, a demonstration of the relevance that by this form of peculiar language of contemporary society has taken on. This tradition, over the course of the last twenty years has brought some of the most prestigious interpreters of photography and of Italian photo-journalism to Mantua: from Mario Dondero and Uliano Lucas, to Francesco Dodice and Letizia Battaglia.

From the 6th to the 10th September 2017, there will be four guest photographers from the event. To prepare for these events which will involve these authors, on Wednesday 19th July at 9 pm at the Loggia del Grano in Mantua, Festivaletteratura will organise an event in collaboration with Frammenti di Fotografia, conducted by Ruggero Ughetti and Marco Brioni, during which the most significant images of the four photographers will be on display, given the opportunity to understand their style and approach, before meeting them in person at the Festival.

The guest photographers at Festivaletteratura 2017 are:

Burhan Ozbilici: a Turkish photographic reporter from the Associated Press, winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2017, with the photos of the murder of the Russian ambassador to Ankara, Andrei Karlov, by Mevlut Mert Altintas: one of the most important instances of contemporary photo-journalism.

Ferdinando Scianna: one of the fathers of modern Italian photography, the first Italian to join the prestigious photographic agency, Magnum. He alternates moments of very powerful photography with moments of important literary experiences.

Monika Bulaj: photographer, reporter and documentarist, she conducts her research on the boundaries of faith, ethnic and religious minorities, nomadic people, migrants, untouchables, and the unprivileged. She has received several prizes for her photography and literary reportage. In 2014 she won the "Nonviolence" National Award, the first time it has been awarded to a woman.

Giulio Piscitelli: Neapolitan photographer born in 1981, he received a scholarship from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund for his project "From There to Here" (2012), which was dedicated to migration flows of the Mediterranean. With Harraga, his latest report, published by Contrasto, Piscitelli won the thirteenth edition of the Amilcare G. Ponchielli Award, established by the National Iconographic Editors.

The event is free and open to all.

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