The House of Photography of Rome, Cittaslow Int. and Dignity Non Profit People ETS are pleased to announce the winners and finalists of the EUROPE_WORLD International Photography Call.

First Prize “History” to Rosa Mariniello (Italy) with “The Resistant Peasants” “I Contadini Resistenti”

First Prize “Single photo” to Rosa Mariniello (Italy) with “Vincenzo Egizio” (Italia) con “Vincenzo Egizio”

Special Award “Local and Traditional Food” Cittaslow Intl. to Maria Paz Castellano (Spain) with “Tramandì”

Special “Dignity” Award Dignity Non Profit People ETS to Elena Petrone (Italy) with “Lucania, between memory, traditions and identity”

Special “Youth” Award from the House of Photography in Rome to Eliane Solene Oliveira (Mozambique).

40 photographs, winners and finalists, chosen from among the best taken by photographers who were inspired with sensitivity and aesthetic sense by the key words of the Call: IDENTITY, MEMORY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND INCLUSION, COMMUNITY AND ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP, FOOD SECURITY AND PROTECTION.

40 photographs are displayed in the exhibition, from 25 October to 30 November 2024, in the spaces of Europa Experience, EU headquarters in Italy, in Piazza Venezia, Rome, and are projected on LED panels always visible from Piazza Venezia and Via IV Novembre.

Together with the winning photographers, the finalist photographers and photographers will participate in the exhibition:

Anna Andreazza “India”, Daniele Bauco “Varanasi”, Claudia Caracausi “Scorci di lentezza”, Laura Carlodalatri “Sete”, Antonino Clemenza “Mar Piccolo”, Andrea D’Andria “Ragazzi e antichi mestieri, Sorrento”, Gabriele Friscia “Capitalism”, Bruno Gambacorta “L’île-de-Sein, Bretagna”,  Emma Graziani “Viaggia”, Valentina Finetti “Scanno-festa di Sant’Antonio”, Marcella Marsili “Castelluccio: tra fragilità e bellezza”,  Livia Pasqualini “Negombo’s Fish Market”, Edoardo Pizzicannella “Il Mercato degli Zebù in Madagascar: cuore di cultura e tradizione”, Francesco Toiati “Gli Invisibili”.

The EUROPE_WORLD International Photography Call asked amateur and professional photographers to imagine, interpret and represent the concept of necessary and widespread networks in Europe, and between Europe and the world, networks that are the basis of the organization of the EUROPA/ system EUROPE - WORLD, shared and concretely interpreted by CITTASLOW INTERNATIONAL: exchange relationships, participatory processes, common paths and objectives, positive structures. Not isolated and disconnected segments, but closely connected entities capable of spreading the culture of good living through research, experimentation and the application of solutions for the organization of the city.

The Jury of the International Call composed of Gilberto Maltinti, President of the House of Photography in Rome, Pier Giorgio Oliveti, General Secretary of Cittaslow International, the art historian Francesca Boschetti, the journalist Enza Emira Festa and the photographer Ivan Benedetto have selected, chosen and awarded the photographs that best represented the concept of necessary networks conceived, tested and implemented in Europe and between Europe and the world. All the photographs on display highlight the concept of networks and the importance of interactions in different contexts, from information technology to ecology, from society to physical and territorial infrastructures, from traditional professions to those linked to AI, from communication to neural networks , from the physical object to the non-physical. The representation of these networks, and the "reticularity" that derives from them, is the basis of the call and its photographic exhibition.

Gilberto Maltinti, Pier Giorgio Oliveti, and Emanuela Bonavolta thank Europa Experience – David Sassoli for hosting the photographic exhibition EUROPE_WORLD.