Boldrini opens 'innovative' FPC photo exhibit
Rome -- Laura Boldrini, the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, opened on Thursday the photo exhibition "Room with a view, a Foreign Press look at the true Italy”, curated by Christopher Warde-Jones at the headquarters of the Foreign Press Association, in Rome.
Inaugurating the exhibit, crowded with journalists and their guests, after a presentation by the President of the Press Club, Tobias Piller, Ms Boldrini said she appreciated the exhibition, featuring such well known photographers as Gerald Bruneau, and Eric Vandeville as well as Mr Warde-Jones, calling it "a targeted choice, which gave precedence to Italy of culture, art, creativity, through images reminiscent of a long process of Italians from the end of the war.”
She underlined also “the important role of correspondents and photographers and of anyone who recounts a country and may choose to give priority to a news story, to a narrative rather than to another, giving a real image of this country, a country that is definitely rooted to its culture, and to all that made it go ahead and that today, in some areas, is struggling to overcome the crisis -- A country where there is so much innovation, although often it is not seen, and innovative creativity that is important to witness and report.”
The over 100-year old overseas Press Club not only plays host to many photojournalists whose shots since 1912 witness Italian life and society around the world, but its headquarters is also a recognized place where the image of Italy is created and spread in its various facets on TV and in radio reports, articles on printed media and on the internet, or in the depth in the weeklies, magazines and tabloids. The 360 journalists from 50 countries, members of the Association in Rome, as well as the 90 in Milan, represent now 116 newspapers, 30 magazines, 30 news agencies, 68 radios and 70 television stations as well as numerous publications on the web. This diverse and varied ' foreign legion’ follows and analyzes the events of Italy through the eyes of its viewers, listeners or readers.
A photo can capture a moment, the moment when it happens can document a fact and its emotions. But many times photos are a symbol that goes far beyond what the shot shows. So it is with photos on Italy sent around the world by many photojournalists who over the years have belonged to the Association in Rome and Milan. There are unique fleeting moments documenting the Italian society and its contradictions, poverty and wealth, genius and recklessness, imagination and cleverness, unique places and emotions ....
The exhibition is held in the headquarters of the press club a few steps from the Trevi Fountain; on April 25 and May 2 from 10 am to 6pm is open to the public who can see with own eye the direct result of the visual work of many professionals all united by affection and interest in the country which plays host to them.
Foreign Press Association in ltaly
Via dell’Umiltà 83 c (Trevi fountain), 00187 Rome
View from April 23 to May 2 (for the public on April 25 and May 2)
