Italian Photography Festival - 1st Edition - “Scatti di libertà” by Eda Urbani

As part of the first Festival of Italian Photography, FIAF celebrated the Italian photojournalist who challenged the social and professional conventions of her time

Castello dei Conti Guidi di Poppi

“Scatti di libertà” by Eda Urbani

"Scatti di libertà" dedicated to Eda Urbani, a revolutionary figure in the photographic panorama of the 20th century and one of the first and most influential women Italian photojournalists.

Eda Urbani (Livorno, 1908 – Turin, 2001) marked the photographic panorama with her extraordinary sensitivity and innovation, exerting a lasting influence on contemporary photography. Her career, which began in the 1930s, represents an artistic and personal journey in which she challenged the social and professional conventions of her time. Her photographs offer a visual symphony focused on the change of the soul, a journey full of swerves and revelations, capable of opening and closing entire chapters following the rapid rhythm of the camera click, where every moral or professional choice is made in favor of one's own feelings.

The exhibition "Scatti di libertà" is a tribute to the varied experience of this extraordinary woman and a rare opportunity to admire her original photographs.

Eda Urbani's images range across different subjects and styles. Children immortalized in the years of innocence and glossy frames obtained from the innate aesthetic taste are crowded together in a frame with a bohemian flavor. And again, we find plastic landscapes captured with the same delicacy that is reserved for the study of the body, histrionic portraits that mix with careful self-identity investigations, and the animal world that, accompanied by a consistent monochromatic effect, releases all its evocative vigor.

Exhibition curator: Denis Curti.