Since the year 2000, a quarter of a century has already passed. Twenty-five years with which there is now an initial need to come to terms. For this reason, Carmelo Cipriani e Isabella Battista, approached this necessity with the intention of carrying out an initial survey of photography in Puglia.
The idea is to invite mid-career artists, born between 1970 and 1995—those who have been consistently active during the first twenty-five years of the 2000s, achieving important milestones and consolidating their careers. Neither masters nor emerging talents, these are the artists who currently form the backbone of photographic research in Puglia.
This is the generation born and active after *Viaggio in Italia*, the historic 1984 exhibition in Bari led by Luigi Ghirri, with whose imagery they have inevitably had to engage—through adoption, reinterpretation, or transformation of its themes and methods.
A twenty-five-year span (1970–1995) reflected in another twenty-five-year span (2000–2025), to take stock of the current state of a form of expression that has now become essential in contemporary culture.
The selected artists were all born and/or are active in Puglia, and work exclusively with photography (they do not use the medium alongside others). They practice photography as a form of pure artistic expression, not aimed at any other type of output.

The artists:
Gabriele Albergo, Cosimo Calabrese, Alice Caracciolo, Corrado Catania, Michele Cera, Francesco Colella, Daniele Coricciati, Giammario Corsi, Gabriele Fanelli, Costantino Forte, Claudia Fuggetti, Maria Lauriola, Francesco Lucera, Luca Marianaccio, Rosaria Lucia Marrone, Marcello Moscara, Adriano Nicoletti, Lorenzo Papadia, Federico Patrocinio, Irene Pucci, Marco Zeno Rizzo, Alessia Rollo, Francesca Speranza, Samuele Vincenti, Ulderico Tramacere.