Forma – Centro Internazionale di Fotografia in Milan proposes a special sale of photographs for the earthquake victims in Abruzzo.
The photographs on sale have the common aim to represent the Italian Landscape: a further way of thinking at this beautiful country even if frail. A damaged landscape not only by natural calamity but first of all by carelessness and neglicence.
Each photographer joined the auction giving a photograph of his own and their prints will be exhibited previous to the auction at Forma from April 28 untill May 3, 11 am to 9 pm.
The auction is scheduled on the next Monday, May 4, at 6 p.m. at Forma and its income will be completely devolved to the charity Onlus Save the Children that has been supporting the Abruzzi earthquake victims – especially children - since the beginning.
02.58118067 - 02.89075420
info@formafoto.it
Alessia Paladini: printroom@formafoto.it
http://www.savethechildren.it/2003/index.asp

The photographers for Abruzzo:
Marco ANELLI – Gabriele BASILICO - Gianni BERENGO GARDIN – Antonio BIASIUCCI - Piergiorgio BRANZI – Luca CAMPIGOTTO - Henri CARTIER-BRESSON – Lorenzo CICCONI MASSI – Mario CRESCI – Daniele DAINELLI – Franco FONTANA - Maurizio GALIMBERTI – Mario GIACOMELLI – Francesco JODICE - Mimmo JODICE - Irene KUNG – Giorgio LOTTI – Raffaela MARINIELLO - Nino MIGLIORI - Davide MONTELEONE –Cristina OMENETTO – Francesco RADINO - Sebastião SALGADO - Ferdinando SCIANNA – Massimo SIRAGUSA - Massimo VITALI – Marco ZANTA

Forma offers various methods of buying at the auction if you cannot attend it:
• via fax (+39) 02 89075418 or through the Internet printroom@formafoto.it
• via phone, previously calling (+39) 02 89075420, faxing (+39) 02 89075418 or mailing
printroom@formafoto.it, specifying sale title and number and a phone to be reached during the bidding.

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Meeting at Fabrica (Treviso, Italy) in June 2008, the jury was chaired by photographer Reza Deghati and included Elisabeth Biondi (Visuals Editor of The New Yorker), Enrico Bossan (Editorial Director of Colors magazine), Giovanna Calvenzi (Photo Editor of Sportweek, Milan), Julien Frydman (Director of Magnum Photos Bureau, Paris), Roberto Koch (Director of Contrasto, Rome) and Roger Tooth (Director of Photography of The Guardian, London). They examined 143 entries from photographers in 40 countries for the F award and 15 entries for the F25 award.