To be a first edition, it has already been able to achieve surprising results in terms of membership. Involving over 160 participants, mostly young and very young arriving from schools in the capital and its territory, and collecting more than 800 images, many sent to bear witness to and share the face of the changing metropolis. These are the excellent numbers of "3 shots x 100 years - Milan, then, yesterday and today", a photographic contest that asked the city to tell its story "from below", that is, through the gaze of those who live there and cross it every day. And which has now come to the final act: the announcement of the winners, with the awarding of the prizes, and the display of the shots deemed most deserving in the setting of the Piccolo Teatro Grassi (Chiostro Nina Vinchi, via Rovello 2). The names of the winning photographers will be revealed on Monday 14 March from 18:00, in conjunction with the inauguration of the exhibition where the winning shots will be exhibited until 26 March together with historic photos from the early 900s and 70s.
The project was born in the name of Pigi Rabolini, an enthusiastic amateur photographer who took images of some iconic places in Milan in the XNUMXs, recreating the identical shots that appear in a series of photographs from the turn of the century kept in the Alinari archive. The competition starts from this research work, taking a further step: documenting how the urban fabric and landscape have changed again in the last forty years. Compared to the points of interest identified at the time by Rabolini, the spontaneous census carried out by the participants added new points on the map of the most loved and lived-in Milan: with the great attention reserved for the renovated Porta Nuova – Varesine district and the complex under construction of City Life.
Three sections in competition. Reportage, reserved for high school, university and photography school students, invited them to retrace the entire itinerary of twenty of the places chosen by Rabolini at the time. Sguardi, open to all, asked to present a single image of one of the twenty places immortalized at the time by Rabolini, focusing specifically on the artistic quality and creative value; Visioni, also open to all, admitted up to a maximum of three shots, dedicated to any of the points that symbolize the Milan that looks to the future. The winning project of the first section will receive the largest prize, set at 5.000 euros; each of the winners in the other categories will receive a prize of 2.000 euros.
The jury called upon to define the winning projects in the three different sections is composed of the photographer Aurelio Amendola, the president of the Pasquinelli Foundation Giuseppina Antognini, the president of the Order of Architects of the Province of Milan Valeria Bottelli, the director of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Theater of Europe Sergio Escobar, by the president of the Associazione Chiamale Storie Alberto Maggi, by the Milanese lawyer Antonio Lodovico Magnocavallo, by the President of the Foundation of the Turin International Book Fair Giovanna Milella and by the head of digital archives and special projects of the Fratelli photographic archive Alinari Rita Scartoni.
The competition 3 shots x 100 years - Milan, then, yesterday and today is conceived by the Chiamale Storie Association, promoter of the memoMI project, the website that tells the story of Milan; the contest was organized with the collaboration of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d'Europa and the Fratelli Alinari photographic archive and the patronage of the Metropolitan City of Milan and the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservationists of the Province of Milan.
Milan, from 15 to 26 March 2016
Piccolo Teatro Grassi, Nina Vinchi Cloister – via Rovello, 2
Timetable: 9: 00 - 22: 00
Free admission
