PHOTOLUX is the Biennial International Festival of Photography that takes place in Lucca, Tuscany.
As a symbol of the project, we have chosen Light, the essence of Photography. In today’s world, where we are constantly bombarded by a plethora of images, PHOTOLUX, like a camera obscura of old times, aims to display a clear and well-defined selection of work from the international photographic scene.
Every two years, for three weeks Lucca offers a unique opportunity for cultural exchange and enrichment. The Tuscan town provides the perfect setting for the festival. The ancient and exquisite sites of the city centre are filled with exhibitions, workshops and talks.
With its energetic and innovative outlook, PHOTOLUX aspires to be a crossroads of exchange for renowned masters, experts and photography lovers, while also shedding light on new and emerging talents, as well as cutting edge artistic practices.
The next edition (2015) of Photolux will be dedicated to the eternal dualism between sacred and profane, good and evil, truth and lie, beauty and misery.
On the one hand, through photography we could make a journey that is at the same time an outer journey all around the world as well as an inner one, discovering the sacred placed and experiencing each time a different but always fascinating aspiration to the divine.
On the other side, we could explore less high territories, often considered marginal, morbid or in some way unseemly, facing the worldliest feelings and instincts of mankind.
Without forgetting what stay in the middle, in the nuances of that colour contrasts which can’t be sharp.
Photography as the privileged language to reveal this duality and analyse its possible declinations and interpretations.
