TThe many things we need to understand how the world goes, photography now has a place of detection. Despite the deluge of images on our screens, we are never satisfiedlet’s see, we shake, we are looking for an update or another platform on which to expand the vision.
All this imprisons us in a constant and excited present, We are crazy who run with their eyes on the planet, alternating the drama and hungry for uncertain and confused informationthe. We don’t really know what happens, we don’t take the time to check, let alone to learn more. You look, you put a heart and if we like it, you share. Minimum effort.
Festival of ethical photography, the world as we would not like it
Photography, the absolute protagonist of this fragmented era, finds its evocative power in museums and galleries, while in the festivals, more and more numerous, recovers the narrative vocation. Exhibitions and debates offer the space of the eyes and the mind to recapitulate the past and observe this disturbing present with greater calm. The Festival of Ethical Photography of Lodi It has reached the sixteenth edition. An important milestone that can only please.
In this appointment, photography has always been understood as a tool of knowledge capable of showing the wrongdoings of men against themselves and their habitat.
A stubborn and persevering festival that clings to a photographic language – photojournalism – which, as we have known it, is dying or perhaps has already died. It remains alive in the historiography of the 1900s, precious and admirable lighthouse in the darkness of a terrible century with two world wars and as many nuclear catastrophes, many dictatorships, many tortures and civil wars. Photography taught us to know. And therefore even if today, photojournalism and reportage are no longer unique witnesses of the present, we must still recognize a residual popularist force.
In Lodi they know it or maybe they believe it so much so this year too Until 26 October, there will be over 20 exhibitions, about 150 photographers involved by 40 different countries and 5 continenti for almost a thousand images on display.
Gaza and Ukraine, contemporary tragedies so close, so absurd and avoidable in front of which we can and have to rebel. And then the Moldova, the diaspora of the women of Cinzia Canneri (of which we talked in this newspaper), the diasporas of migrants in every corner of the world that chase salvation and find death on assassin borders, the south of the world that seek redemption and the history reread through the exhibition Srebrenica. Thirty years after the genocide, together with the VII Foundationthe opportunity to remember the extermination of the Bosnian people and the shameful weakness of the international community. So as now.
Regarding the images of these sixteen years of the Festival, it becomes inevitable to make bitter considerations on the state of the world and, equally unavoidable is the question about what photography is today and what it is for.
These appointments offer the collective rite of knowledge, perhaps replace media that we have lost, the newspapers, the in -depth television, or perhaps they are simply occasions in which to watch, however distracted and fleeting, it cannot exempt itself from seeing. While we ask you, she, The photograph, regardless of our doubts, of the language that we speak, immediate and synthetic, explorer of every corner of the planet, dramatically and simply narrative, observes us from the walls of the exhibitions of Lodi by telling us what is there beyond our lives and showing the children and children of the schools the invisible victims of this world in agony.
For a few hours, we can stop scrolling, observing and let us move from the pìetas that deserves this defeated humanity.
Festival of Ethical Photography of Lodi 2025
XVI edition
Praise, various locations
Until 26 October 2025