The Rights of Children by UNICEF
The new exhibition The Rights of Children, inspired by the book bearing the same title, is the detailed testimony of photographer Giacomo Pirozzi on the condition of children and the work of UNICEF in developing nations. The book narrates the rights of children through photographs taken by the author during his 19 years of work around the world. Exquisite images that are fragments of lives lived on the edge, of denied and exploited childhoods, but that also allow for a glimmer of hope, because they show that it is possible to realize children’s rights by carrying out programs for their education, protection, health. The goal is to celebrate The Convention on the Rights of the Child on its twentieth anniversary (1989–2009) and to strengthen the awareness of UNICEF’s work on the field.
Stories of Gold and Mud. April 2009 – Reportage from the L’Aquila Camps photographs by Alessandro Di Maio, Valeria Gentile, Ali Jabbar
One year after the earthquake that devastated the Italian town of L’Aquila, the collective exhibition Stories of Gold and Mud aims to retrace the large and small wounds left hidden on the streets, in the homes, and on the faces of those that, since April 6 2009, have lost everything. In the images of the three freelance reporters one can feel the weight of the event that hit the heart of Italy: an event made up of unjust deaths, tears and cracks, broken objects, wrinkles of suffering, terror; but that at the same time became a chance for the rise of austerity and courage, solidarity, smiles and vitality of a people that surprised everyone with their strength. Stories of gold and mud is an exhibition that wants to be an encounter with one’s own conscience, an impact with the most violent natural phenomenon of the year, a cultural bet that wants to shed light also on man’s responsibility in all of this. To reflect and to act, not only to remember. Alessandro (26 years old, from Sicily), Valeria (25 years old, from Sardinia) and Alì (26 years old, from the UAE) were festival volunteers in 2009.
Front Page Moon by the Italian Senate Library
The exhibition Front page moon, images of history from the Italian Parliament Library Emeroteca, was created to narrate the transformation of the Italian press on the  occasion of an epic event, the moon landing in 1969. The exhibition is made up of a series of panels that reproduce about 100 pages of newspapers of that era, selected among the most representative of the time with the intention of showing the graphical and conceptual evolution of the press which then followed. The pages, taken from dailies and periodicals, retrace the events, illustrate the scientific data, present the protagonists through an articulated iconographic structure, the revolutionary use of the print characters, the prevalence of color, the inspired comments of the paper editors and of the great intellectuals of that time.

Sala Cerp – Rocca Paolina, historical center of Perugia
Free entry