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.
In this presentation, storyteller and sustainability activist Aditi Mayer explores how fashion can be a medium for social and environmental justice—examining the intersections of craft, climate, and culture through both personal stories and historical frameworks.
How can fashion allow us to honour discredited ways of knowing? How can we become archivists of living traditions? Can craft serve as a climate solution?
Join Aditi Mayer, founder of The Artisan Archive, as she unpacks these questions through a decade of work in the sustainability realm, engaging with garment workers, artisans, farmers, and designers across the world. Through a lens of resilience, heritage, and cultural preservation, she explores how fashion is not just an industry, but a language of resistance.
Aditi Mayer is a sustainability thought leader working at the intersection of social and environmental justice in fashion. As a writer, photographer, creative director, and public speaker, her work examines inequities in global supply chains—particularly within the fashion industry—while amplifying narratives of resilience, heritage, and cultural preservation.
She is the founder of The Artisan Archive, a platform and agency dedicated to weaving narratives of craft, climate, and culture. Her advocacy began in 2014, organising within Los Angeles’ garment industry after the 2013 Rana Plaza Factory Collapse in Bangladesh. In 2020, she was named a National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow, documenting India’s farming and artisanal fashion industry. Mayer has collaborated with institutions such as the United Nations, Global Fashion Agenda, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, and State of Fashion to advance critical conversations and train the next generation of advocates. From Vogue to National Geographic, her work bridges the worlds of art, industry, and education—all with a socially conscious slant.
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).
