Cortona on the move 2025 - COME TOGETHER
Photography as Reconciliation
From July 17 to November 2, 2025, the Tuscan town of Cortona becomes the global stage for the 15th edition of Cortona On The Move, one of Europe’s most compelling photography festivals.
The theme this year, “Come Together”, curated by Director Veronica Nicolardi and Artistic Director Paolo Woods in collaboration with the Kublaiklan collective, explores the space between fracture and healing, personal, political and social, using photography as a powerful lens for reconciliation.
In a fragmented world shaped by war, displacement, political division and cultural trauma, the festival proposes an artistic inquiry into reconciliation.
“Come Together” is an urgent call to imagine healing processes, both internal and collective. The photographs exhibited navigate themes such as family, identity, trauma, memory, coexistence, post-conflict societies and ecological awareness, demonstrating the power of photography to unite people, ideas and realities.
This year’s edition unfolds across 23 exhibitions located in historical and contemporary venues such as the Fortezza del Girifalco, Palazzo Baldelli, the MAEC Museum and the streets of Cortona’s old town. More than 76 international photographers contribute to this introspective and socially relevant edition.
This is the official list of the artists:
Alfredo Jaar – Inferno & Paradiso (co-produced with Photo Elysée)
Christopher Anderson & Marion Durand – Family Trilogy
Taysir Batniji – Distance & Belonging
Pia-Paulin Guilmoth – Flowers Drink the River
Jan Banning – Blood Bonds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Lech Wilczek – Simona Kossak: Born to Be Wild
W. M. Hunt / Collection Blind Pirate – Order/Chaos – Photographs of American Groups 1865–1965
Patrick Waterhouse – Restricted Images (in collaboration with the Warlpiri community of Central Australia)
Federico Vespignani – Short-term, but Long-term
Parisa Azadi – Ordinary Grief
Mika Sperling – I Have Done Nothing Wrong
Vic Bakin – Epitome
Ray Banhoff – Supersosia
Cosimo Calabrese, Valeria Cherchi, Eleonora D’Angelo, Giulia Parlato, Roselena Ramistella – Cronache d’acqua – Images from Southern Italy
Edoardo Delille & Giulia Piermartiri – Atlas of the New World
Yael Martínez – Echoes of Uncertain Silence
Maria Abranches – Maria
15 Years Together (Various Artists) – 15 Years Together
Maya Valencia – Ca Sa Padrina — Letter to My Grandmother’s House
Laura Pannack – Valdichiana On The Move
Eleonora Agostini – Revolve
Sosta Palmizi – Il Cortile 1985–2025
Edoardo Borri Giannelli - Cloyster
Chiara Archilei - Le forme del silenzio
Anna Tascone - Between wild souls