Rome, Sept. 23 - the tenth edition of the International Photography Festival of Rome, an event promoted by the contemporary photography of Cultural Affairs and Historical Center - Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, the Department of Culture Capital of Rome and the Chamber of Commerce of Rome. The Festival runs for the second consecutive year in the exhibition spaces of MACRO Testaccio, between now and October 23, and can now be considered a fixture for the capital.



This tenth edition of the Festival is dedicated to the theme of Motherland, mother earth, and addresses the relationship between photography and territory, between authors and belonging to a place between land and identity, with particular attention to Italy, which this year celebrates its first 150 years of unity.



Each author responds to his own way, explores lands belonging to it, old or brand new, large or small, real or virtual, with a very personal document, the fruit of their lives and the need to go back or move away. "Motherland" is a theme explored and widespread in photography and this exhibition takes on a deeper meaning, always in relation to the creation of new identities in a world completely explored and technologized, where, however, returns a very strong need to seek their own land .



"Land and Identity. These are the values ​​of this edition of the festival - said the Councillor for Culture and Historic Center of Rome capital, Dino Gasperini - Motherland, this mother land to explore, explain, and why not, partly invented, combining nature and artifice, sensibility and genius, but also built to recognize the beauty and his feeling. To learn how to watch and contemplate the horizon, following the different stimuli, between aesthetics and screening, material and extraction. To learn how to read the well-known, lesser-known aspects of grasping and studied. Throughout the world, following the routes of the artists and their sentimental authorial priorities, but then always back to "base" of Rome, the center of a special project, for nine years, every year, the task entrusted to a photographer to tell the city in a completely spontaneous and free. "



"Declining the word earth in its myriad meanings - said the Superintendent of Cultural Capital of Rome, Umberto Broccoli - This is the goal. Indeed Mother Earth, ancestral concept that each artist interprets it with his own key. Mother Earth are the flowers, but also the tombstones in the cemetery setting, are the lands of David Hope Spiritual, land of the spirit and soul that takes the form of a hut in a green eco-friendly in England. They are barefoot in the dust of a smoker and the look of an old lost dur-featured. It is Central Park in New York or condominiums in Johannesburg is the Mississippi or the nearby Naples. "



The exhibition sees the contribution of Roma Capitale Banks Treasurer: BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas, Unicredit, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the Culture Project Zètema production and artistic direction by Marco Delogu.




The 23 and 24 September will be organized meetings, lectures & workshops, presentations and projections of photographs to enable the meeting of fans and curious with the whole community photo international, national and Roman present in Rome in those days.



The spaces of MACRO Testaccio host several exhibitions that tell the relationship between photographers and their land of adoption.



Eight personal and non-Italian artists Stefano Graziani (ed. Francis Zanot), Alessandro Imbriaco (edited by Renata Ferri), Lorenzo Maccotta (by Joan Calvenzi), Francesco Millefiori (edited by Stephen Ruffa), Valentina Vannicola (edited by Benedetta Guidi baskets), Rodolfo Fiorenza (by Francesca Bonetti), Francesco Fossa (by Valentina Bonomo), Giorgio de Finis (ed. Silvia Litardi).



Finally, two important changes this year: the projection of 15 projects selected among the participants in the 2011 Call for entries, organized by the artistic director of the Festival to promote the visibility of emerging young photographers from around the world, and the competition in Wine Wievs collaboration with the Gambero Rosso and Art Tribune: the search for new images to develop an increasingly close relationship between the worlds of art and wine.



Other venues participating in the festival with several projects, including the most prestigious International Academy, presenting some projects specifically for the festival.