From October 19, 2024 to January 5, 2025, the Biscozzi | Rimbaud Foundation presents the exhibition Puglia as seen by the photographers of Magnum Photos Agency, curated by Walter Guadagnini, photography historian and Director of CAMERA - Italian Center for Photography in Turin.

This is the seventh exhibition event since 2022 of the institution founded in 2018 by the spouses Luigi Biscozzi and Dominique Rimbaud with the aim of promoting modern and contemporary art through a program of exhibitions that have so far featured Angelo Savelli (The artist of white, 2021), Salvatore Sava (The other sculpture, 2022), Grazia Varisco (Perceptive sensitivities, 2022-2023), Mirco Marchelli (Voices in chapter, 2022-2023), Yuval Avital (Lucus, 2023-2024), Vittorio Matino (Color blaze, 2024).

35 shots by 12 photographers - Ian Berry, Bruno Barbey, Stuart Franklin, Burt Glinn, Harry Gruyaert, David Hurn, Guy Le Querrec, Herbert List, Martin Parr, David Seymour, Ferdinando Scianna, Patrick Zachmann - tell the story of Puglia, its territory, and its inhabitants, through the lens and the perspective of some of the greatest figures of the world-renowned photographic agency, Magnum Photos.

The exhibition is a true journey through time and space: from the immediate post-war period to the present day and from Gargano to Lecce, an itinerary unfolds made of history, people, landscapes, and architectures.

It ranges from the black and white of David Seymour (Warsaw 1911 - El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya 1956), one of the historic founders of Magnum in 1947 along with Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, of Herbert List (Hamburg 1903 - Munich 1975), the great German photographer particularly linked to the Mediterranean, and David Hurn (Redhill, 1934), who narrate the post-war difficulties and the rebirth of the Fifties and Sixties, to the color of Ian Berry (Huddersfield 1934) and Burt Glinn (Pittsburgh 1925 - Southampton, New York 2008), fascinated by the nature and architectural singularities of the region, to return to the black and white of Bruno Barbey (Morocco, 1941 - Orbais-l'Abbaye 2020), Stuart Franklin (London 1956), Guy Le Querrec (Paris, 1941), who tell in different times the trades related to the sea and the land. The present days, with the rampant mass tourism, are immortalized with irony by Martin Parr (Epsom 1952), while contemporary daily life is captured with poetic nostalgia by Patrick Zachmann (Choisy-le-Roi 1955) and Harry Gruyaert (Antwerp 1941).

To ideally accompany all these authors, the gaze of Ferdinando Scianna (Bagheria 1943), who for over thirty years has captured the cities and countryside of Puglia, narrating the persistences, architectural and ideal, and the changes of one of the most fascinating regions of our country.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated, trilingual catalog (in Italian, French, and English), published by Dario Cimorelli Editore, with an introduction by the curator Walter Guadagnini, containing the reproduction of all the exhibited works and essential biographical notes of the authors.