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Following a careful selection process, we are delighted to announce the winners of Mythography VI, Exhibit Around’s annual editorial project curated by Professor Enrico Medda, lecturer in Greek Literature at the University of Pisa. This year’s call was dedicated to two of the most powerful and contrasting deities of the classical pantheon: Jupiter (Zeus) and Bacchus (Dionysus): one the embodiment of order and sovereign authority, the other the god of transgression, ecstasy, and the dissolution of boundaries.
Daniela Silvestri wins with her long-term documentary project Seto Generation.
In south-eastern Estonia, bordering Russia and overlooking Lake Peipsi, lies Setomaa, a culturally distinct and politically unrecognised region, home to the Seto people, of Finno-Ugric origin. In 1994, the Seto proclaimed themselves the “Kingdom of Setomaa” in a collective act of cultural resistance against centuries of geopolitical pressure. Today, the community numbers between 10,000 and 13,000 worldwide, divided between Estonia and Russia, roughly half of what it was a century ago. Seto identity is built on language, Orthodox religion, folklore, and a tradition experienced as a collective mission. Festivals and rituals, suspended between the sacred and the profane, are the crucial moments through which shared memory is passed down, and it is precisely these moments that Silvestri documented across a decade of fieldwork, from 2015 to 2024, on the Estonian side of Setomaa. Her photographs offer an intimate and unrhetorical portrait of a community whose survival depends, above all, on its young people.
Daniela Silvestri is a co-founder and vice-president of WSP Photography, where she oversees communications and events. She has produced documentary work across Italy and Eastern Europe, and co-founded Itinerari Metropolitani, a photography workshop initiative dedicated to Rome and its evolving urban landscape.
Bienyl Huelgas – In Death There is Beauty (and yet I still dream of love)
Hal Gage – American Bacchanal
TeamGeir – Nature and the Raw Creation of Life
Remarkable Rewards
Alain Schroeder – Chains of Madness
Rudy Gadeyne – Peel Carnival
Peter Wach – Night Life
We are honoured to welcome Christopher Morris as Mythography VI special guest: a photographer whose work, across four decades, has left an indelible mark on the history of international photojournalism.
For Mythography VI, Morris developed Power Structures: a triptych traversing conflict, beauty, and politics through a visual approach that is both radical and consistent. Three spheres, one question: who holds authority over human life, and what does it look like up close? These are images that do not announce themselves. They wait. And it is precisely that patience that makes them unforgettable. The signature of a photographer who has learnt that restraint is its own kind of power.
The Mythography VI volume will be presented at the Trieste Photo Days 2026 alongside the collective exhibition at Magazzino 26, where audiences will be able to discover Christopher Morris’s Power Structures. This edition promises to be extraordinary, and we look forward to sharing it with you.
Congratulations to Daniela Silvestri and to all those who received an award!
