From 29 April to 12 June 2022 the awaited appointment with EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY returns in Reggio Emilia , an international photography festival promoted and produced by the Palazzo Magnani Foundation together with the Municipality of Reggio Emilia and with the contribution of the Emilia-Romagna Region.

As always, the halls of the monumental Cloisters of San Pietro will be the focus of the festival, hosting ten exhibitions . The historical exhibition of this edition will be hosted in the frescoed rooms on the ground floor of the Cloisters of San Pietro and will be dedicated to Mary Ellen Mark , documentary photographer who from 1964 until her death in 2015, creates intensely vivid and revolutionary photographic essays that explore reality of people, especially women, in a variety of complex and often difficult, painful, sometimes almost impossible situations. Mary Ellen Mark: The Lives of Women, edited by Anne Morin, embraces the humanity of these women and shares it with a wider audience, providing her subjects with a meaningful, often extremely powerful voice.

On the first floor, in order of itinerary, we find Nicola Lo Calzo with the project entitled Binidittu , a reflection on the condition of migrant people in the Mediterranean through the figure of San Benedetto il Moro, the first black saint in modern history considered an allegory of our times . In the next room, Hoda Afshar, through the shots of the complex Speak The Wind project, reveals the extraordinary landscapes of Iran, its people and their rituals, photographing the wind and the intertwining of traditions.

The American photographer Carmen Winant, on the other hand, in the series of images of Fire on World weaves more narratives through hundreds of slides found, of protest, of birth and of small worlds. The Japanese Seiichi Furuya with the exhibition First trip to Bologna 1978 / Last trip to Venice 1985 tells of the first and last journey he made with his wife Christine Gössler, through intimate portraits and still images, which allowed him to reconstruct the memory of those moments, up to Christine's suicide. Ken Grant, English photographer, proposes the exhibition Benny Profane , a long-term project on a port district near Liverpool, which becomes in his shots an immersion in a space and in those who depend on it, an account of kinship and challenge in a difficult land. With the photographs of Temporarily Censored Home , the young Guanyu Xu transforms the domestic and conservative space of his childhood, into a scene of revelation, protest and queer reclamation, through a mosaic of collected images. Photographer Chloé Jafé with I give you my life tells the often unknown story of the women of the Yakuza.

Jonas Bendiksen, on the other hand, spreads chaos in the photojournalism community with The Book of Veles, a project that brings together the fake news generated in the small and unknown Macedonian town of Veles. Finally, the French Alexis Cordesse with Talashi , (a word that in Arabic means fragmentation, disappearance) explains what the Syrian civil war is through personal photographs taken by those living in exile.