Orchard, 2022 From the series Flowers Drink the River © Pia-Paulina Guilmoth

The international photography festival Cortona On The Move has been held since 2011 in the Tuscan town of Cortona, in the province of Arezzo. A protagonist of photographic production at the international level, the festival is a point of reference for photographers, curators, authors, critics, as well as the public.

The theme of the 15th edition of Cortona On The Move is “Come Together.”

Artistic Director, Paolo Woods says: “This 15th anniversary edition doesn’t seek to offer easy answers. Instead, it studies the spaces between ruptures and repair, between conflict and unity, exploring what it means to find common ground when the ground itself often feels like it’s falling away. We come to realize that reconciliation is not solely a compromise but requires us to embrace paradigm shifts and affirm new ways of being.

“Come Together” will be beautiful but also raw, messy and rough-edged. It is about the force and courage that keeps us trying to mend fractured relationships, whether it’s within families, across borders, or in the quiet, desperate attempt to reconcile with the self. By looking at stories where healing is possible, even if incomplete and imperfect, “Come Together” offers not just a view of the world as it is but as it might be.”

Each year, Cortona On The Move carries out research on the evolution of photographic language and increasingly privileges the production and realization of original and unpublished content.

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