the view
from lucania

The view from Lucania is a photographic project developing its cultural offer from the privileged surroundings of Lucania. Our aim is to produce culture and support territorial development through the implementation of audiovisual concepts, overseen by internationally recognised photographers and professionals.

The likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Arturo Zavattini, Ando Gilardi, Mario Carbone, Franco Pinna, Antonio Pagnotta e Mario Cresci have travelled across Lucania, inspired by the emotional tales of Carlo Levi's Christ stopped at Eboli, giving birth to world renowed imagery, capturing a land out of time, immersed in its archaic essence. We promote a territory that has kept much of its rural character, but yet wants to be seen as contemporary, looked through the eye of a camera in a totally different light.

We hope to shape a new vision, one that can leave a sign and following this approach TVFL becomes a project for the territory. We believe that we have inherited from the past a huge responsibility and that is to give the future a better chance - by gaining access to original sources, historic documents, traces of cities, villages, professions, faces, cultures and networks: the past does not belong to us. It belongs to those who can bring it back to life, generating new time.

We believe that the secrets of a land lay in the places, in the people, in the space in which their lives take place, in human interaction. TVFL is a project that encourages innovative actions of confrontation and international exchange, promoting connection and network processes. All activities will take place in the local surroundings, activating a physical and local knowledge, for an immersive and intensive experience, where photography and territory will become one. Our message is specifically tailored for professionals and amateurs, students of disciplines in which audiovisual are constantly applied and of specific interest.