JURORS

Olmo Amato

Artistic Director

Olmo Amato graduated in Neurobiology at “La Sapienza” University of Rome. In addition to his studies he dedicated himself to photography and to the experimentation with digital manipulation techniques. As a photographer and filmmaker, Olmo creates fine art prints, works in post-production and teaches. In his works, mostly rendered in black and white, he integrates historical photographs with shots taken during his travels. His works have been selected and presented in festivals, galleries and contemporary art fairs. He has won the Setup 2018 prize as Best Artist under 35, the MalamegiLab 2018 prize and Tiziano Campolmi 2019 prize.
In 2015, together with Samuele Sestieri, he wrote and directed the film “I Racconti dell’Orso” (The Bear Tales), which was selected to compete at the 33rd Torino Film Festival, at Rotterdam International Film Festival 2016 and numerous other Italian and international festivals.

Roberta Fuorvia

Curator

Independent photography Curator. She was the Italian coordinator of the first edition of European Tour organized by Photo Workshop New York. She collaborated with Tribunali138 photojournalists’ studio by Luciano Ferrara (Napoli, Italy), curated “The Phone Book,” a solo exhibition by Robert Herman for the LO.FT gallery in Lecce (Italy) while collaborating there as a curator (2015-2016). In the last years, she has worked with internationally renowned professionals such as Richard Tuschman, Amber Terranova, Peter Funch, Elisabeth Biondi, Sylvia Plachy. She curated a series of exhibitions for the Naples International Airport. She also teaches editing and curating at Centro di Fotografia Indipendente and was for three years the house curator of Magazzini Fotografici. In 2017 she curated her first exhibition abroad (São Paulo, Brazil) with the support of the Italian Institute of Culture. In 2018 she was a part of Body Island Project where photography, dance and video are the narrating voices protagonists. In 2019 she founded Photo Words Lab: a course talks about the relationship between photographic image and text.

Francesca Anfosso

GALLERIST

The owner of Gallery 28 Piazza di Pietra. Born in Genoa, she has been living in Rome since 1987 where she graduated in Literature and Philosophy at Sapienza University. After studying and working in the publishing field, in 2012 she opened the 28 Piazza di Pietra gallery in the centre of Rome where she creates and, on several occasions, curates contemporary art exhibitions. In the artistic choices, she favours figurative painting and photography, devoting particular attention to the research and promotion of young Italian and international artists.

Parisa Aminolahi

PHOTOGRAPHER

Parisa Aminolahi (Tehran, Iran) based in the Netherlands since 2008, is a freelance filmmaker, photographer and painter. She studied theatre stage design (BA) and animation (MA) at University of Art in Tehran and documentary filmmaking (MA) at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work covers a spectrum of themes such as displacement, exile, homeland, family and childhood memories, utilizing childhood and old family photographs, self‐portraits and her own family members as her subjects. Her mediums range from photography, documentary filmmaking, animation, painting and mixed media.
She is grant recipient of The Firecracker Photographic Grant, The Netherlands Film Fund, GUP New Dutch Photography Talent of the year and One World Media Student Film Bursary. Her dummy book, Tehran Diary, was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award 2021, BUP Book Award 2020 and PHmuseum 2019 Women Photographers Grant. She had screenings and exhibitions locally and internationally.
Parisa Aminolahi is represented by Ag Galerie and is a member of Women Photograph.

Marco Spatuzza

POST PRODUCER/ FINE ART PRINTER

Marco Spatuzza (1980), graduated in Languages, Cultures and Institutions of the Mediterranean Countries at L’Orientale University Institute of Naples (Italy) with a thesis on “Photography as Historical Source.” In addition to his studies he dedicated himself to analog photography and development and printing techniques in the darkroom.
He combines his interest in contemporary history studies and photography at the Istituto Campano per la Storia della Resistenza where he reorganized the photographic archives following specialized training on the treatment of the photographic records in the archives and collaborated in the organization of documentary exhibitions.
In 2014 he opens a fine art printing studio, FUORI GAMUT – Officina di Stampa Fine Art, in Naples. A studio offers high quality digital printing services and provides support to artists and photographers with his expertise in the field of Giclée printing, color management and post-production.
Since 2016 he teaches “Advanced Digital Postproduction” at the Centro di Fotografia Indipendente in Naples.