Foto-grafando. Encounters and tales in regards to the historical past of pictures.

On April 2nd, on the Municipal Library, the final assembly of the collection organized by the Officina Fotografica Riccione affiliation and curated by Sara Polidori: a free journey from the pioneers of the Nineteenth century to pictures as a social investigation.

In an age dominated by a relentless move of digital photos, stopping to grasp the origins and evolution of visible language turns into an act of cultural duty. With this objective, the Officina Fotografica Riccione affiliation promotes “Foto-grafando. Encounters and stories about the history of photography.“, a collection of 4 occasions curated by Sarah Polidori to discover pictures not solely as a method, however as a software for thought, reminiscence, and narration, scheduled from January eighth to April 2nd 2026 within the convention room of the Municipal Library (Viale Lazio, 10).

The mission was born to counter the superficiality of the up to date gaze and restore depth to a common language, providing a discussion board for photographers, lovers, and people interested by visible tradition. The collection of conferences is an invite to pause, observe, and replicate, rediscovering pictures as an artwork type, a doc, and a mirror of society: from Nineteenth-century experimentation to social reportage, every period has left its mark that speaks to the evolution of our sensibility. Understanding these transformations means not solely higher decoding photos from the previous, however above all growing a vital and knowledgeable perspective on the current, studying to see the world with new eyes.

The route will begin onJanuary 8, 2026 with a gathering devoted to “Invention and pioneers of pictures”, an introduction to the origins of pictures that retraces the primary nineteenth-century experiments and the visions of Niépce, Daguerre and Talbot, together with technical discoveries, curiosities and intuitions that perpetually modified the way in which we signify the world.

The second appointment, scheduled for the 5 February, will tackle the subject “Nineteenth-century pictorialism vs. pictures”, a comparability between pictorialist aesthetics and the seek for an autonomous photographic language, a narrative on the border between inventive and realist pictures that affected the late nineteenth century.

Thursday 5 March, Sara Polidori will discuss “Eugène Atget: Between Surrealism and Everyday Life”, introducing one of the poetic figures of the early twentieth century, able to reworking the on a regular basis into visible reminiscence via his silent gaze on a fading Paris, anticipating Surrealism. The occasion will lead us via the alleys of a Paris of instances passed by, demonstrating how Atget managed to search out magnificence even within the easiest issues, like an outdated store window or a abandoned courtyard. It will likely be a journey of discovery of a photographer who noticed the world with such calm and poetry that each small scene of on a regular basis life appears magical.

The journey will finish on 2th April with the assembly “Photography and Society: Gisèle Freund”, the place pictures will likely be explored as a software for social and cultural investigation, from artwork portraiture to the documentary energy of the picture in trendy society.

All occasions, freed from cost, will happen within the convention room of the Municipal Library, from 20:45 PM to 23:00 PM.