• 14:00-14:30: Jacopo Benci, "For an iconology of Luigi Ghirri’s work"
• 14:30-15:00: Larisa Dryansky, “ Taking Up the Challenge of the Contemporary World and of the Present”: Luigi Ghirri and American Photography
• 15:00-15:30: Jonas Schnydrig, “Luigi Ghirri & The American Vision  - A proposed hand in hand reading of Luigi Ghirri’s photographic landscapes”
• Coffee break
• 16:00-16:40: round table with the speakers: moderator Tobia Bezzola
• 16:50-17:45: lectio by Giuliano Sergio, "Viaggi minimi. L' atlante immaginario di Luigi Ghirri"

Jacopo Benci is an artist and researcher based in Rome. He worked as Assistant Director of Fine Arts at the British School at Rome (BSR) from 1998 to 2013 and as a BSR Senior Research Fellow in Modern Studies & Contemporary Visual Culture from 2013 to 2018. Since 2003, he has focused on cultural and visual studies, presenting at conferences in the UK, Italy, and France, and publishing chapters and articles on Antonioni (2008, 2011, 2015), Pasolini (2011), and Luigi Ghirri (2017, 2018). From 2013 to 2017, he was a co-investigator on an AHRC-funded research project on Luigi Ghirri, organizing two conferences in Rome and Leicester and co-curating a study volume, Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place (2017). Since 2017, he has taught Contemporary Art History at the IED School of Design in Rome.

Jonas Schnydrig is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich, with a strong focus on the historiography and critical discourse of 20th-century Western photography. He is currently co-authoring a major monograph on the photographic work of Paul Strand. To support this research, he has recently conducted extensive archival investigations at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) in Tucson, Arizona, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As a research assistant, he shares his expertise by teaching courses on the history and theory of photography at the University of Zurich.

Larisa Dryansky is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Sorbonne Université. Her research focuses on the intersections of art, science, and technology in postwar and contemporary art, and on technical images (photography, film, video). She is currently completing a book on materiality in postwar and contemporary art. In addition to her first book, Cartophotographies: De l’art conceptuel au Land Art (2017), she has co-edited several volumes, including recently Repenser le médium: Art contemporain et cinéma (2022), and has published internationally in academic journals, edited volumes, and exhibition catalogs. From 2014 to 2016, she was Senior Fellow (“Conseillère scientifique”) in charge of contemporary art history programs at the French National Art History Institute (INHA).

Giuliano Sergio is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, a critic, and a curator. His publications include Information document oeuvre: parcours de la photographie en Italie dans les années soixante et soixante-dix (Paris 2015) and Blow-up. Piero Manzoni e l’esplosione dei nuovi media (Milan 2024). His exhibitions include Luigi Ghirri. Pensare per immagini (Rome, MAXXI; São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, IMS, 2013-2014), La montagne de Venise by Yona Friedman with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle (Venice, 2016), Julia Margaret Cameron, Florence Henri, Francesca Woodman. L’arte del femminile (Naples, Villa Pignatelli, 2017), and Renverser ses yeux. Autour de l’arte povera 1960-1975: photographie, film, vidéo (Paris, Jeu de Paume-Le Bal; Milan, Triennale, 2022-2023).