CLOSER brings together the images of 40 photographers from around the world selected by the festival's open call. All the works focus on stories of proximity, responding to this edition's theme of the same name. Starting from the idea that observation itself can change reality and that every story is contamination, the images on show do not seek neutrality, but accept the partiality of the close-up gaze, making intimacy their strength. Closer is also an invitation to share and to observe the world carefully, beyond prejudices and stereotypes.
Christian Badach, Murray Ballard, Riccardo Banfi, Máté Bartha, Chiara Benzi, Jesper Boot, Jingwen Cao, Benedetta Casagrande, Guglielmo Cherchi, Eddie Clybouw, Ludovica de Santis, Joseph Desler Costa, Martín Estol, Raisan Hameed, Mohamed Hassan, Maazin Kamal, Tomasz Kawecki, Henri Kisielewski, Ina Königs, Joseph Ladrón De Guevara, lom-of-LaMa, Roo Lewis, Balaji Maheshwar, Jens Masmann, Jackson Mount, Alvin Ng, Eugenio Pancaldi, Liesl Pfeffer, Peter Pflügler, Alexandra Riba, Anton Röntz, Ana Maria Sales Prado, Aaryan Sinha, Caleb Stein, David Steinberg, Hiro Tanaka, Greta Valente, Alex Valentina, Su Yang, Kamil Zihnioglu.