Verzasca Foto Festival promotes emerging international photographers and champions visual arts in rural and peripheral areas, forging connections and dialogues with the landscape and providing access to various forms of expression and visual storytelling.

During festival days, we offer a series of exhibitions outdoors and indoors, artists presentations, guided visits, meetings with artists, portfolio reviews, project screenings, and live music.

Over the years, our curation has focused on different themes which share a profound interest in humanity with its feelings, its positions, and its surroundings. Our exhibitions examine local, national, and international realities and narratives with an emphasis on diversity, inclusivity, and conservation.

The festival takes place in an Alpine valley made up of small villages of stone houses and surrounded by dense and lush nature. We aim to provide an intimate and informal arts’ place where participants may share ideas and points of view.

Artists with narrative, documentary, and conceptual works are invited to interact with the local territory and establish a material relationship with the land. Their works, often exhibited in woodlands and rural Verzasca villages, merge with the natural surroundings.