Good news greets the fourth edition of the IILA-Photography Prize: the best photographers of 2011 will exhibit their works at Rome’s Contemporary Art Museum, the MACRO, as part of the tenth edition of the Rome International Festival of Photography (22 September – 24 October). The 5,000-square-metre space gives the Festival and the Prize a qualitatively high profile in the context of Rome cultural events.
The International prize, conceived by the Italo-Latin American Institute’s cultural secretary, Patricia Rivadeneira, and the festival’s artistic director, Marco Delogu, is the result of a long collaboration between IILA and FotoGrafia, which has opened a new space for Latin American photographic art, offering new talent the opportunity to participate in the festival alongside the discipline’s consecrated names.
Realized in collaboration with Zètema and the Cultural Centre of the Interamerican Development Bank (IBD-Washington), the IILA Photography Prize is aimed at young Latin American photographers and consists of a one month residency in Rome, during which the winner will realize a photographic work on the Eternal City, which will then be exhibited at the MACRO during the festival’s 2012 edition.
Participation in the prize is through a competition, whose theme this year is “Mother Earth”, seen as a point of departure for analyzing the relationship between earth and identity, a personal relationship established between the photographer and the place where he/she lives, by birth or choice, an investigation into its microcosm, its social relationships or simply an analysis of the habitat where the photographer has decided to spend his/her life, or some part of it.
The final winner’s work and a selection of the best projects submitted for the 2011 edition will be exhibited at the MACRO, and subsequently at the IDB Cultural Centre in Washington.
The deadline for participation is 19 June 2011.
The terms of the competition can be found on the IILA web site www.iila.org.