Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024, 4 PM

Location: Cultural Center, Rovinj

There is rarely an opportunity to meet the artist whose work we just saw at his/her exhibition. The path from an idea to its realization is often strewn with riddles/mysteries and questioning.

Dakar Fashion Week
The Dakar Fashion Week has reached its twenty-first edition. This event, launched in 2002 by Adama Paris, upon its debut saw the participation of very few stylists who gathered in dilapidated hotels, but over time it has become one of the main fashion events in Africa, where dozens of stylists from all over the world participate.

Alessio Paduano
Born and currently based in Naples, Italy. I studied at the “Université Paris VII – Denis Diderot” in Paris thanks to a one-year scholarship. In 2007 I started working as a contributor and a photographer for several Italian newspapers. In 2009 I graduated in Sociology at the “Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II” with a dissertation in journalism, in which I analyzed the different slant between two newspapers: Le Monde (Paris) and Corriere della Sera (Milan). In 2010 I started the MA in photojournalism at the “Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli”, where I got my degree with honors.
Some of my works have been exhibited in the PAN-Palazzo Arti Napoli (Italy), Castel dell’ Ovo (Italy), Biennal of Bibbiena (Italy), Visa pour l’image (France), Dong Gang Museum of Photography (South Corea), Museum of Socialist art (Bulgaria) and Palm Spring Photo Festival (California).
I regularly publish in the National and International magazines, including Time, CNN, BBC, Spiegel, Stern, National Geographic, El Pais, Vanity Fair, Internazionale, La Stampa and others.
Among the recognitions obtained for my work there are the POY (Picture of the Year), the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award, the Krzysztofa Miller Prize, the Siena International Photo Awards and many others.