The PhotoVogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography festival that focuses on the common ground between ethics and aesthetics, returns for its eighth edition. From March 6th to 9th, 2025, BASE Milano will host a series of exhibitions and talks analysing the interrelation between humans and Nature, and the relations of kinship we can create with animals, complemented by satellite events at the city s finest galleries.
The exhibitions at the PhotoVogue Festival include: “The Tree of Life: A Love Letter to Nature”, “Latin America Panorama", “In Vogue with Nature”, “Seeds of Knowledge", “The Tree of Change”.
Check 2025 and past exhibitions here.
SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE
A pivotal, structuring aim of PhotoVogue is the deep dedication to visual literacy, to promote and cherish the talents of emerging visual artists. As the world goes more and more divided into factions unable to create dialogue and spark meaningful conversations, we believe that building a conceptual framework around the visual narration is fundamental to understanding the complex and layered themes that every year we choose to analyse during the Festival.
This year the Festival will be dedicated to the relationship between humans and Nature. We want to re-think and re-imagine our relationship with the ecosystems and the other species inhabiting the Planet. The Library works as a conceptual space where different stories intertwine forming a coherent mosaic, analysing the consequences of climate change, and the reconfigurations we must face to resist and live on a “troubled planet,” as Donna Haraway writes, the future we can imagine through community and solidarity.
The publications selected for the Library span from eco-fiction to academic essays to magazines focusing on sustainable practices. They all face climate change and the normative way we conceive our place in the world - a pyramidal structure where humans are at the top - through an intersectional approach: class, racial, environmental, and gender studies are the tools to interpret reality and find a new form to inhabit the Earth. Accompanying the powerful works of the artists selected through the open calls, these books and magazines want to set a new path, distant from the Apocalyptical, divisive narrations that often are used to create awareness around environmental matters. Instead, the collection proposes the kinship between different species and a kind but radical approach as the starting point for an urgent discussion on our Planet.
- Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway (Duke University Press, 2016)
- Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis (Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2017)
- Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes (Verso Books, 2019)
- White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism by The Zetkin Collective and Andreas Malm (Verso Books, 2021)
- Feminism or Death: How the Women’s Movement Can Save the Planet by Françoise d’Eaubonne (Verso Books, 2022)
- Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice by Ted Benton (Verso Books, 1993)
- The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (Princeton University Press, 2015)
- This changes everything by Naomi Klein (Penguin, 2014)
- Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer (Center for Humans and Nature, 2021)
- The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare (Catapult, 2024)
- Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup (Quercus Publishing, 2021)
- The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas (Voracious, 2022)
- Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us by Keggie Carew (Canongate Books, 2023)
- Chernobyl Herbarium by Michael Marder and Anaïs Tondeur (Open Humanities Press, 2016). Check out Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium, available online, an experimental book by a collective of researchers, students and technologists from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
- Knowing Cotton Otherwise by the Fashion for Good Museum
- Monos by Alessio Keilty
- Atmos Magazine
- Nautilus
- Sirene Journal
- It’s freezing in LA!
- Icarus Complex
- Migrant Journal
- Broccoli
- Catnip
- See all This
- The Plant
- Parklife
- Arxipelag
For more about the PhotoVogue Festival 2025, check out: All you need to know about the PhotoVogue Festival 2025
PhotoVogue Festival is a project directed by Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue) and co-curated by Caterina De Biasio (Visual Editor, PhotoVogue) and Daniel Rodríguez Gordillo (Senior Manager, Education Community Initiatives Condé Nast).
