This panel brings together intimate photographic projects that explore care as a lived, daily practice within relationships between mothers, daughters, and grandmothers. Through long-term and deeply personal work, the artists reflect on how love, responsibility, illness, aging, devotion, and loss shape bonds across generations.
Photography becomes a gesture of proximity and attention. An act of staying, accompanying, and witnessing rather than observing from a distance. These works consider care not as an abstract value, but as something that structures memory, identity, and the transmission of experience over time.
Aletheia is an Australian photographic artist based in London, exploring environmental issues, post-colonial legacy, and personal themes of family and cultural identity. In 2024, she won the Open category of the World Press Award (SE Asia Oceania), Dehinden Environmental Award, the Documentary category of the Australian Photography Awards , and was a finalist for the Sony and Bowness Awards.
Jip Schalkx is a photographer and visual artist with a background in visual communication and graphic design. Her practice explores the ambiguity between girlhood and adolescence, belonging, and how connection forms or breaks in contemporary life. She investigates how young people communicate emotionally and socially. Her poetic yet accessible work takes form in photography and immersive installations with video, sound, or performance, often collaborating with other artists. Schalkx invites reflection on connection, memory, and emotion in today’s world.
Magdalena Wosinska’s photography is shaped by her outsider perspective—as an Eastern European immigrant and a woman in male-dominated skateboarding and metal scenes—and her experiences of personal challenge. The camera allows her to build connections through communication, empathy, and trust, creating spaces of vulnerability and openness. Her work balances a bold visual style with warmth and sensitivity, capturing personal narratives and shared humanity while exploring the passion, complexity, and richness of human experience.
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Alessia Glaviano is Head of Global PhotoVogue and Director of the PhotoVogue Festival. She joined Vogue Italia in 2001 and played a key role in shaping its visual identity, later becoming Visual Director. Since the global relaunch of PhotoVogue in 2022, she has led the platform worldwide, collaborating with all Vogue editions and expanding its mission to champion ethical, inclusive, and forward-looking image-making across photography, video, and emerging media.
Under her leadership, PhotoVogue has become an industry-leading platform supporting emerging and established talent through global open calls, mentorships, and curatorial projects. In 2016, she launched the PhotoVogue Festival, the first fashion photography festival tied to a major fashion publication, dedicated to exploring the intersection of ethics and aesthetics in contemporary image culture.
Alessia regularly lectures internationally and serves on juries for major photography awards and festivals, contributing actively to global conversations on visual culture, representation, and authorship.
