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.
“Square Mile” by The VII Foundation is part of The Tree of Change, a series of slideshows, videos, and contributions from organisations dedicated to environmental advocacy. The series includes also: “Vital Impacts – The Nature of Hope”, “The Ghost Rainforest” by Earthrise Studio, “Metaphysics of Mixture” by Institute for Postnatural Studies, “The Essence of Prix Pictet”, “Human Visions” by PHmuseum, “End Time Project” by Charlie Hamilton James ,“CondéFuture”, “Wild Summon”, “Latin American Fashion Awards”, “Nautilus Presents: Biodiversity: Though the Lens”.
Square Mile is an initiative by VII Community, a program of The VII Foundation in partnership with PhotoWings. The initiative presents diverse photographic explorations by members of VII Community, a worldwide network of The VII Foundation alumni and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop participants.
Square Mile is a geographic framework, signifying a local focus on spaces where personal, local, and global influences intersect. The projects presented explore how themes such as climate change, identity, history, legacy, migration, gender, and environment appear within a local perspective. The initiative aims to inspire conversations on the significance of local stories in a global context and to engage the general public in discussions about social issues and the transformative power of photography.
This edition of Square Mile, curated especially for the PhotoVogue festival, offers an insight into the work of twelve photographers. They show humanity’s multifaceted connection to the natural world, explore the resilience of communities deeply rooted in their land, and pay respect to ancestral traditions. They tell a story about nature’s guardians, who are protecting the environment and creatures that populate it, and examine the intricate relations between humans and all living.
Featured photographers: Doug Barrett (US), Tatsiana Chypsanava (NZ/BY), Sara Escobar (MX), Jordan Gale (US), Amina Kadous (EG), Oyewole Lawal (NG), Alejandra Orosco (PE), Ranita Roy (IN), Chinky Shukla (IN), Mitar Simikić (BA), Pablo Vergara (CL), Ela Zdešar (SI)
Curated by: Ron Haviv, Suzie Katz, Nika Perne
Webpage: https://theviifoundation.org/educate/community/square-mile/
The VII Foundation is committed to in-depth journalism covering the crucial issues of our time. In a world where beliefs and actions are increasingly out-of-sync with facts and realities, our response is to ensure the truth is documented to enable communities worldwide to make evidence-based choices about the challenges impacting their lives.
The foundation does this by empowering new voices through education, especially from under-resourced regions where press freedom is limited and journalists are vulnerable. We train practitioners to cover their local communities and global problems, and we produce large-scale and long-term documentary projects that advocate change and detail solutions. We bring new and neglected perspectives to the public agenda and host conversations that campaign for a diverse, safe and viable profession, especially for freelancers worldwide.
VII Community provides ongoing education and support to a network of The VII Foundation’s alumni and Foundry Photojournalism Workshop participants, numbering more than 1,200 professionals from 138 countries to date.
Through VII Community, we provide continuing education and support to visual journalists as they develop sustainable careers. VII Community members are connected to the profession through online discussions, presentations, reviews, in-person global meet-ups, and a Discord platform for regular exchanges.
VII Community is a program of The VII Foundation in partnership with PhotoWings.
PhotoWings’ mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. PhotoWings is a nonprofit organization dedicated to utilizing the power of photography to further deep thinking, communication, and action. In addition to our educational partnerships, we have a free archive of hundreds of hours of original interviews, presentations, and curricula.
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)
