Cortona on The Move 2025: Bringing People Together

Explore How Relationships Influence the World at Cortona on the Move 2025

Each year a town in Tuscany comes alive for a photography festival. Bringing together photographers, curators and art aficionados for an experience like no other. Cortona On The Move celebrated their fifteenth edition with a series of opening events from July 17th to 21st. Marking the start of the three month festival, visitors were able to enjoy workshops, talks and exhibition openings designed to spark conversations.

Collaborating With Community

Many of the 23 exhibitions at Cortona On The Move 2025 are printed on Innova Art papers. Working in collaboration with the festival organisers and fine art print partner Center Chrome, every exhibition has been paired with an Innova surface that compliments the visual style. From 100% cotton papers to baryta type surfaces, a wide spectrum of substrates have been utilised to present these diverse stories.

The Innova Art team attended the opening days of the festival and were present in Spazio Off, at Teatro Signorelli, alongside Center Chrome. The team had the opportunity to interact with a broad spectrum of creative professionals, connecting on many levels. Including meeting many photographers who, in some cases, were seeing their work on Innova paper for the first time.

Experience the Exhibitions

United under the theme of Come Together, Cortona on The Move 2025 celebrates reconciliation in a world driven by division. Exploring what it means to find common ground and heal from inflicted wounds. Each exhibition has been curated to expose the many ways it is possible to reunite, whether that is politically, socially or personally.

Cortona On The Move 2025 faces challenges head on, asking how to reconcile after genocide in Blood Bonds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Jan Banning. Illustrating unimaginable suffering as a result of the 1994 genocide, but also the transformative power of forgiveness when survivors and perpetrators can gradually rebuild their sense of safety and connection together.

I Have Done Nothing Wrong by Mika Sperling creates a complex dialogue between vulnerability and determination in response to the question: how does one break a family and social taboo? Told in three parts, this is a story investigating the dynamics of family abuse, silence and memory.

Seeing the world through another person’s eyes can give a unique perspective, for the protagonists featured in Supersosia by Ray Banhoff, becoming someone else has lead them to themselves. These lookalikes from across Italy have stepped into the shoes of their idols, experiencing the obsession with fame and interpreting the charisma of their namesakes to carve out their place in the world.

Of course being together is not always an abstract term. This is demonstrated in Echoes of Uncertain Silence by Yael Martinez. Working in association with Medecins Sans Frontieres along the migration route in Mexico. Martinez documents the informal camps resulting from recent measures adopted by the US government. Exposed to the elements, without access to basic services and at risk of violence and extortion, these people have been forced together to live in limbo. MSF works to combat this by helping to build an inclusive community, providing heathcare, psychological assistance and connecting migrants with the local population.

These exhibitions combined with many others come together to form Cortona On The Move 2025. The festival runs until November 2nd in Cortona, Italy, click here for opening times and ticket information.