Registration is officially open for the BìFoto 2026 Award, the biennial competition that will select three photographic projects to be exhibited during the sixteenth edition of the International Photography Festival in Sardinia, scheduled to take place in Mogoro from October 10, 2026.
The award offers photographers and authors the opportunity to present their work within an international context , alongside the works of important contemporary photographers, in the exhibition path that every year transforms the historic center of the town into a large open-air photographic museum.
As per the Festival's tradition, the 2026 edition will also take inspiration from a song. After featuring artists such as Fabrizio De André, Eddie Vedder, Vinicio Capossela, Subsonica, Brunori Sas, and Johnny Cash over the years, the underlying theme of the sixteenth edition will be "Dio è morto," written by Francesco Guccini in 1965 and recorded in 1967 by the Nomadi.
"One of the most important songs in Italian music of the second half of the twentieth century," the organizers emphasize, "which traverses disenchantment and loss, denouncing a world that seems to have lost its way, but which also leaves room for the possibility of rebirth, fragile and necessary: 'God is dead, with the myths of the race God is dead / In the world we will make God is risen.'"
Participants, the competition states, are invited to freely engage with these suggestions, developing projects capable of interpreting the present through a personal and contemporary perspective. Applications may be submitted exclusively through Picter, the competition's official registration platform. The deadline for participation in the 2026 BìFoto Award is July 19, 2026.
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