Director of CRAF – Photography Research and Archiving Center;
Teacher a.c. at the University of Udine
Head of the European Triennial of Engraving organization;
Responsible for the organization IRPAC_Regional Institute of Cultural Promotion and Animation.
Journalist Publicist.

Award-winning photographer and filmmaker, he publishes for major international newspapers including
National Geographic, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Newsweek, Days Japan International.
His documentaries have been broadcast by: Amazon Prime Video, Al Jazeera, Discovery Channel, RSI TV Switzerland.
He is a speaker at numerous conferences in Italy, Europe, the United States and Japan. He received more of 50 international awards including 6 “Pictures of the Year International”, 2 “Days Japan international
Photojournalism Awards” was also a finalist at the “Eugene Smith Grant”, “Alexia
Foundation Grant”, ”Leica Oskar Barnack Awards”, World Report Awards, Sony World
Photography Awards.

From Spilimbergo, Italy. Born in 1984 Documentary filmmaker. Photographer, director and producer.
Thanks to his work she traveled and documented in Africa, Asia, America and a large part of Europe.
Graduated in Multimedia Sciences and Technologies, specialized in photography and cinema. Professional journalist since 2008.
He began his career collaborating with the Pressphoto Lancia agency for Gazzettino and A.n.s.a. For eight years he worked on the stages and backstage of the biggest Italian music events, publishing with sector publications including Jam and XL and numerous national Webzines.
He collaborates with the most important Italian event production agencies including Azalea Promotion, ZedLive, VirusConcerti and LiveNation Italia.
He has worked on photographic and video, editorial and advertising documentation projects for Fondazione Eni, Adria Mobil, Malossi Italia, StylMartin, Aku footwear, PM2 Agency, Emporio ADV, Oj & i production, Fondazione Cariplo, A.r.p.a. Unesco, Masai Italia, Disquared2, Mondadori, Heineken Italia, Gruppo Danieli, Paseo 206, Nikon Italia, International School of Havana and many others.
Editor and professor of multimedia technologies, he writes about photography for Witness Journal and Nphotography. Contributor of Nikon School Travel and Nikon for Parks.
Finalist and Winner of several national competitions and international events including FIOF award, Lens Culture Award, Cortona On the Move, Photographic Museum of Humanity, International
Photography Award.

Architect, PhD and Post PhD on architecture and the rationalist city, he has taught in national and international universities with research activities on urban functioning and socio-spatial issues, publishing articles and monographs. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the States General of Women and past National President of AIDIA, Honorary Inspector of MIBACT, President of IN / Arch Triveneto section. You have been a councilor in the Order of Architects of Trieste and a member of numerous building, large area and landscape commissions; you are currently a member of the Operational Group for Ecological Transition, City and Urban Regeneration at CNAPPC. Consultant for public administrations and national and international research centers, he received the Medal and the Diploma of Merit from the Minister of the Interior for post-earthquake technical support in the Umbria-Marche region, and the Medal from the President of the Republic for the conception and organization of the series of conferences Image of the city. You believe in the maieutic role of Architecture as an instrument of positive contamination and as a prerequisite for building a synergistic (synergistic and active) society capable of implementing the true path towards Urban Regeneration which cannot be separated from the Human one. You think that the collective challenge is to act in the anterior future, with an immanent gaze, implementing a project of shared territorial and human growth, through collective imagination and creativity, innovation and the courage to experiment with good practices.

Roberto Pastrovicchio (Trieste, 1975) is an advertising and industrial photographer, a specialist in the field of still life and food. He has been collaborating for years with important national and international brands – including Conad, Hilton, Italesse, Illycaffè, Fincantieri – taking care of the creative process from the initial shot to the post-production of the image. Essential and minimalist, he has always sought his “aesthetic silence”.

Enrico Scaglia was born in Vittorio Veneto (TV) in 1965.
He meets photography in 1974 when he is given his first camera. Since then he has never separated from it.
In 1982, still a minor, he obtained from his parents the permission to move to Turin to pursue the ambition of becoming a photographer by entering the Istituto G.B. Bodoni where in 1985 he obtained a diploma in photographic arts.
In 1991 he began his professional activity and joined Tau Visual, the National Association of Professional Photographers, where he subsequently became a member of the board, a position still maintained.
He specializes in fashion photography and in particular becomes a point of reference in children’s photography.
He signs many advertising campaigns and publishes constantly in many magazines: from Vogue for children to the most popular women’s.
He photographs children all over the world, from the coldest latitudes of Iceland and Scandinavia to the deserts of South Africa, pausing with greater interest and longer in Florida to Miami where he was able to deal with many photographers from all over the world.
In 2005 he published the book CIELI born from the encounter with the Francesca Rava Foundation of Milan, active in assisting underprivileged children in Central and South America.
In 2012 he became interested in aerial photography using drones as an extension of his arm and taking the camera in search of new points of view even in fashion shots.
From 2018 he moved to Trieste in love with the city and opened a photographic studio and an academy dedicated to the training of young people, creating a creative laboratory where photography is the undisputed queen. He researches the essence of photography by teaching the original systems of analog photography going as far as the use of the darkroom and enlarger printing. He organizes exhibitions of photographic art in the Accademia Gallery, workshops and conferences both on site and with third parties.
In 2022 he signs the television broadcast PHOTO CHI SCATTA in which he seeks, through illustrious guests, to restore cultural value to photography, lost in the oblivion of massification.
“Photography is my life. I grew up with a camera in hand. When you go through all the stages of falling in love, even the most difficult ones, and overcome them, growing old together becomes poetic. I am aging together with photography. Whatever happens, even if I stop taking pictures, I could never stop loving her. “

He has been photographing for over 40 years and, at the same time, he is dedicated to the culture of the image. You have given countless seminars and conferences. In the FIAF you have held the role of Departmental Director and you have been Meritorious of Italian Photography since 2000.
In the last 15 years you have deepened the themes of the photographic portfolio by directing studies on the semiology of discourse, paying particular attention to the theory of the image in the postmodern era and the new media.
He deals with knowledge management and has taught for several years at the University of Trieste.

Rebeka Legović was born in Rijeka (Croatia). She works as a journalist and editor at RTV Slovenia, but she is also an artist and photographer specializing in fashion, architecture and conceptual photography. In her work, the abstract minimalism of a setting out of time, yet full of references, is enveloping and silent at the same time. Her world is rigorous, attentive to forms, in which beauty and introspection dialogue with an environmental metaphysics where human figures are themselves organic components of the visual fabric. A production of dreamlike and contemplative images that cross the observer’s mind to stimulate a multiplicity of suggestions to compose a sort of visual library. Her works have been awarded at the most famous international photographic competitions, including the Fine Art Photography Awards, PX3 Paris Photo Prize, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Moscow Foto Awards, Pollux Awards, and many more. In 2019 and 2020 in New York she was proclaimed “Advertising Photographer of the Year” during the prestigious IPA International Photography Awards. You collaborate with magazines and journals of the sector. Her works are part of public and private collections, and have been exhibited all over the world.

When it comes to photography in Sacile, his name inevitably always pops up. Domenico Florio, Campania “naturalized” Sacilese, in over forty years of profession especially as a photographer and graphic designer, was the protagonist in the city on the Livenza of a trade that is also an art, collecting the legacy of masters and making his time as “shop manager” to new local photographic talent.
After various work experiences he discovered his true passion and in 1973 he opened his photography shop in Sacile.
After an initial journey related to prints, passport photos and weddings, he tries his hand at the first advertising jobs on behalf of some local companies.
This was the main field of activity in the following years which led him to open a photography and advertising graphics studio in 1980 with which he contributed in terms of image, to the growth of companies such as Fazioli, Mcz, Imet, Birex and many other.
In 1992, he gave birth to Fotomercato, an exchange exhibition of photographic material that has grown over time to become a traveling event that takes place in various fairs around Italy.
Founder of the Imaginario cultural association, he directed the Imaginario Gallery in via Dante in Sacile, a certainty, a point of reference at a regional, but also national level, for all professionals and lovers of photography, offering courses, meetings but above all author exhibitions.

Photography critic, editor and curator, she deals with exhibition and publishing projects within visual culture.
Benedetta is the Director of the Romano Cagnoni Award – International Photojournalism Award and she is a member of the Romano Cagnoni Foundation Board of Directors.
In 2010 she has been included in the list of Expert Consultants of the ICCD – Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione del MiC – Ministero della Cultura (Central Institute for the Catalogue and Documentation of the Italian Ministry of Culture).
Since the same year she is president of pianoBI. Since 2012 she has been a member of Progetto Donne e Futuro (Women and Future Project), for which she represents the Women and Art section.
Among the different organizations and entities with she collaborated: the production company Giart for the Fotografia Italiana documentary film series, distributed by Contrasto; Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Treccani for which she worked on the Contemporary Japanese Photography section, included in the publication Enciclopedia dell’Arte Contemporanea, 2021 (Enciclopedia of Contemporary Art); Nikon Italia and Corriere della Sera newspaper for the series “Accademia di Fotografia”, 2022 – 2023.
She has also curated several exhibitions and edited many photographic publications, including: Maurizio Galimberti Paesaggio Italia, Portraits, Francesco Faraci Malacarne, Angelo Ferrillo 258MINUTES, Giuseppe Mastromatteo Humanscape, Nicola Tanzini TokyoTsukiji, AA.VV. #18Esplorazioni Palermo Italian Capital of Culture, Alberto Gandolfo Quello che resta (What remains), Romano Cagnoni La Rivelazione Umana (The Human Revelation), Adriano Nicoletti Approdo, Iole Carollo, Out of Africa, Nicolò Filippo Rosso Exodus, AA.VV. A Soft Gaze At Intimacy and many other.
In 2021 she won RESET Call for Papers, promoted by Sistema Festival Fotografia, launched as part of the 2020 competition notice Strategia Fotografia of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC).
Portfolio reviewer, member of the jury in international events, she is among LOBA – Leica Oskar Barnack Award nominators.
Since 2015 she is contributing editor at IL FOTOGRAFO Magazine.

Born in Bari, he studied photography and developing and printing in the darkroom as an autodidact. Graduated in Architecture, he deepens the study of photographic technique and language. Currently he deals with documentary photography and architecture, producing personal research and also collaborating with the MAXXI museum in Rome.