Contestants are invited to interpret the topic of the IV edition “Common Roots: Places,” by proposing photographic projects that reflect on one or more of the following aspects:

• Everyday Places: Spaces that we live on a daily basis , which belong to our individual or collective history, that we want to document, celebrate, and crystallize, or that we have taken for granted, only to suddendly rediscover them.

• Popular Places: Locations that embody images that everyone knows and are expected to be seen constantly the same (e.g., the gondola in Venice, the sunflower field in Tuscany, the snowy village at Christmas). How can we narrate them in a different way?

• Imaginary Places: spaces that exist only in the imagination of those who create them but resonate ideas and widespread visions.The aim of this edition of the festival is to encourage participants to reflect on how Common Roots not only connect us to places, but also define the way we live them and how we narrate them. How do the invisible roots of a place that lay in the past, in our imagination and in our culture, influence our perception of it? How can we bring out these roots, making the invisible visible, and telling the stories of places in a new and authentic way?