Author name: Giorgia Padovani

ARTISTS 2026

Joachim Schmid

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Joachim Schmid is an artist who has been working with found photographs and texts since the early eighties. His research questions, with a skeptical approach, the role of authorship and artistic intention in relation to the final outcome. A systematic collection of photographs without scientific or cataloguing purposes, but driven solely by the desire to reveal the vast hidden potential carried by images produced outside the artistic sphere.He published numerous artist books. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in numerous collections. He lives in a populated place in Brandenburg, Germany.

BIOGRAPHIES 2026

Giorgia Padovani

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Giorgia Padovani is the co-founder and co-artistic director of GU.PHO., as well as president of GU.PHO. – Center for Vernacular Photography. She works in the field of cultural project development, with a particular focus on photography and participatory practices through independent projects and with the Modena-based collective Mo’Better Football, with which she develops exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

In the editorial field she has various collaborations including La Biennale di Venezia where she coordinates the catalogue of the Biennale Musica and the Biennale Teatro, as well as the project Scrivere in residenza.

ARTISTS 2026

Manuela Nebuloni

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With a practice that embraces both research and the active use of archives, Manuela Nebuloni structures her investigation of Ghana as a process of learning and inquiry. Since 2020, she has been working on the construction of a physical archive of postcards and ephemera from the sixties as a tool for critically reflecting on the present, with a particular interest in amateur artistic production as a space for experimentation. She is the founder and a member of Postbox Ghana, a project exploring collective memory through material culture.

BIOGRAPHIES 2026

Gian Marco Magnani

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Gian Marco Magnani works in cultural project design in the fields of photography and cinema. Since 2010 he has been collaborating with the Fototeca Manfrediana in Faenza, where he is dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of local photographic archives, exploring the relationship between visual heritage and territorial identity. He is president of the Cineclub Il Raggio Verde and organisational director of the NOAM Faenza Film Festival.

The Fototeca Manfrediana is a non-profit cultural institution active in Faenza since the seventies. In 2010 it was relaunched under new management, which expanded its activities and photographic archive, now among the most organised and frequently consulted in the Faenza area. It preserves and promotes over one hundred and fifty years of local visual memory, promoting photography as a language and a tool of collective identity through exhibitions, publications, events, and research projects.

ARTISTS 2026

Marco Lanza

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Marco Lanza, born in Florence, where he currently lives and works, developed an interest in photography at a very young age, immediately embarking on an artistic research path that would lead him to exhibit both in Italy and internationally. His works have been published in international magazines including “The Sunday Times”, “Le Monde”, “Die Zeit”, “Creative Review”. He is the author of the volumes The Living Dead, Velatura, and Depositi. In 2005, together with his brother Saverio, he founded Pastis, a video art project that combines video, photography, and music.

BIOGRAPHIES 2026

Elisa Giovannetti

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Elisa Giovannetti is an archivist and cultural project designer. Her work focuses on the processes of building and activating archives as tools for creating connections between heritage and communities, and she is president of the cooperative Ebla.

BIOGRAPHIES 2026

Fondazione Home Movies

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Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia in Bologna is the first Italian archive dedicated to the preservation, digitisation, and promotion of private and amateur cinema. Founded in 2002, it preserves more than forty thousand small-format films from across Italy. Through digital projects, educational activities, and the festival Archivio Aperto, it promotes and makes accessible private audiovisual memory as a historical, social, and creative heritage, encouraging both research and contemporary reuse.

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