Fotografia di famiglie (Families portraits) is the subject and title for the Fotografia Calabria Festival 2024 edition. A topic not chosen randomly, where singular and plural have not only a grammatical meaning, but even a social one. We return also this year to investigate photography as language of the contemporary, this time revolving around the subject of the family and its representations. Photography as a device giving us the chance to meditate on the present and on the deep rooted and sometimes complex relationships that arise within, but that are even able to exist - and to resist - beyond the biological ties. Photography as a language that many families from all over the world use to freeze moments, to keep emotions and feelings alive, to preserve tiny stories.

Photography as a medium to rediscover and re-take possession of all those moments that stay often crystallized in an album left in some fornitures but able to reactivate our memory as soon as we turn its pages.  Fotografia di famiglie has the purpose to analyze this universe made out of emotions and memories-not only digital - dealing with topics like illness, relationships between relatives - even through the use of A.I, unavoidable mirror of our time - and stories of all those families that deviate from the traditional models and that exist beyond any blood ties.