Oriented

The 4th edition of the review, organized by the Comune di Roma, dedicated to the East.

India, in viaggio dal 1970 al 2005
Raghu Rai
Curated by Enrica Scalfari

This is the most famous Indian photographer's first large personal exhibition in Italy. This is how he described a lifetime devoted to photography: "The photographs I have taken during all these years are a sort of instinctive answer to the stimuli I receive from my country, sometimes I feel as if I am taking photographs with my eyes closed, allowing myself to be guided by an inner energy that is also the bearer of a millenary culture and identity that still pervades this country today. This is what is magical about taking photographs of India, with its complex, multicultural and multi-layered society and this is what my work speaks of".
Raghu Rai, a maestro of Indian photography, was born in December 1942. In addition to winning numerous national and international awards, Rai has exhibited his work in London, Paris, New York, Hamburg and Prague and at the Bunkamura Museum in Tokyo, as well as in Zurich and Sidney. He lives in New Delhi with his family and is a member of the Magnum Photos Agency.

Roma, a diary 2005
Anders Petersen
Curated by Marco Delogu

Rome as it has never been seen before, an exclusive for FotoGrafia. Following Josef Koudelka's work in 2003 and Olivo Barbieri's in 2004, the festival has asked the Swedish photographer Anders Petersen to create new photographs with Rome and the Romans as subjects.
Petersen's perspective is profound, not stopping at the appearances of a city with an extraordinary history, but investigating the reasons, the satisfactions and the troubles of daily life today.
Petersen shows how it is possible, even in a city with an endless iconography, to discover new points of view, those of a city with many identities, extending towards a future marked by cohabitation.
The metropolitan context is investigated through the presence of the human element, its relationships, and the objects through which it expresses its own personality.
Hence a Rome both sorrowful and proud is revealed, capable of expressing her soul even disregarding the marks of her history.

Anders Petersen was born in Stockholm in 1944. He achieved undisputed fame from the very beginning of his career thanks to a long study devoted to the patrons of a café on Hamburg during the Seventies. Published in 1978, "Café Lehmitz" became a cult book for the international public. He has won many awards, such as the Photographer of the Year Award for 2003 at the Arles Festival.