On Monday October, 18th in Padua “Photo Open Up”, an international festival of photography, will close its doors after this successful third edition whose theme was “Hell, Hells”. 

Italy, Alexandra Boulat, Photo Open Up festival, photography

2021 marks the seventh centenary of Dante Alighieri’s death and there will be manifestations and events that will be related to this important anniversary. 

Italy, Letizia Battaglia, Photo Open Up Festival, photography

This festival tried to reflect on the themes outlined by the Italian poet in his “Inferno” (Hell), the first cantica of The Divine Comedy. The photographs - exhibited in some places of the city, such as Museo Eremitani, Cattedrale ex Macello, Palazzo Zuckermann - fill the temporal gap between the work of Dante Alighieri (13th century), his catholic moral and its redemption’s path described within its pages, and the contemporaneity. 

Italy, William Lakin, Photo Open Up festival, photography