For the seventh year, the Portfolio Reviews return to Trieste Photo Days: a direct exchange with the photographers and professionals joining the festival, and a rare chance to get advice on your own work.
From 23 to 25 October 2026, emerging and professional photographers will be able to submit their portfolios to the critical eye of an outstanding panel of reviewers, in one-to-one sessions of twenty minutes devoted to the edit of the images and to the possible next steps for the work. A close encounter that over the years has opened the way to new projects and new collaborations.
WHEN AND WHERE
23-24-25 October
Sala Xenia
Riva Tre Novembre - Trieste -> MAPS
REGISTRATION
Registration open until Wednesday 21 October 2026, 11.59 pm
Log in and choose your reviews at my.dotlogic.net, EVENTS section → Portfolio Reviews 2026 – Trieste Photo Days
- Free for Exhibit Around APS members and DOTLOGIC subscribers
- An additional contribution of €15 applies to sessions with Christopher Morris only
- Each session lasts 20 minutes
- You may select TWO sessions with two different reviewers, subject to availability
- Each author may present one printed project only, consisting of a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 30 photographs, with no size restrictions
- Should you be unable to attend, the fee will not be refunded, but you may transfer your registration to another person by notifying us.
Full rules at my.dotlogic.net → EVENTS → Portfolio Reviews 2026 – Trieste Photo Days
PRIZES
The winning portfolio will be exhibited at the 14th edition of Trieste Photo Days (2027) and will receive the prestigious Stele created by the artist Giorgio Celiberti.
President of the Portfolio Reviews is Andrea Rossato, a photographer awarded and selected by the World Photography Organisation in three consecutive editions of the Sony World Photography Awards.
REVIEWERS
Christopher Morris – English
One of the most celebrated photojournalists of the past forty years. A founding member of VII Photo Agency, he worked for TIME Magazine from 1990 to 2020, covering almost 30 international conflicts and following the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama as part of the White House press pool.
His photographs have captured the essence of power, politics and cultural change in our time: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the wars in Yugoslavia, Colombia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Yemen and Panama, the first Gulf War, the American invasion of Iraq and the Arab Spring in Libya.
Morris has received many major awards, among them the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the Olivier Rebbot Award, the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Photojournalism and several World Press Photo prizes. He has published two books with Steidl: My America in 2006 and Americans in 2012. Alongside TIME Magazine, he has worked with a great many international titles around the world.
In 2009, when TIME Magazine gave up its White House coverage, Morris was approached by the Italian fashion magazine AMICA for a shoot in New York, after its editor had been struck by his monograph My America. This began a four-year collaboration in which Morris brought his unmistakable reportage approach to Milan and Paris, where he remained until 2017, photographing fashion, political leaders and celebrities for European clients.
In 2022 he began a long-term project on environmental change in Florida, his home state.
In recent years he has also been reorganising his archives, which gather forty years of images into what he likes to call a "Living Archive".
Barbara Silbe – Italian, English and French
Journalist and curator, she is the director of EyesOpen! Magazine, which she founded in 2014. She writes on art, photography, technology, culture and travel for the newspaper Il Giornale, for the magazine Il Fotografo and for other national and international titles.
An expert in editorial editing, she has sat on numerous juries for national and international photography awards and curates a wide range of photographic events, as well as books and solo and group exhibitions. She works with museums, companies and publishers as an independent curator, teaches visual storytelling at various training institutes and editorial photography at Panorama Academy / eCampus University.
She conceived the charity auction La fotografia diventa nobile, bringing together 178 artists in an exceptional fundraising initiative entirely devoted to the Fondazione per la Ricerca sulla Fibrosi Cistica. She curates the Italian edition of the exhibition dedicated to the Sony World Photography Awards, one of the largest and most prestigious photography competitions in the world, hosted at the Museo Diocesano in Milan. For the same museum she produced and curated the solo exhibition dedicated to the British portraitist Lee Jeffries, as well as the exhibition celebrating the work of the Italian photojournalist Livio Senigalliesi.
Claudia Colecchia – Italian and English
Head of the Photographic Archive and Library of the Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte of the City of Trieste, where she works on the conservation and promotion of the collections. She curates exhibitions and publications on historical and contemporary photography.
She has pursued studies in archival science, photography and librarianship, and has worked at Ca' Foscari University and IUAV in Venice, at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati in Trieste and at the Soprintendenza for the artistic heritage of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
At the Civici Musei her work on the collections goes hand in hand with guided tours and classes for students. She organises and takes part in conferences, symposia and seminars, and sits on the board of the Rete Fotografia association.
Federica Berzioli – Italian
Editorial coordinator of IL FOTOGRAFO (Gruppo Sprea Editori), she handles media partnerships with leading festivals and institutions and develops editorial projects for a range of brands. She works regularly as a portfolio reviewer and sits on the juries of national photography awards.
A visual communication professional, she built her experience across design and publishing at Kartell and the Contrasto agency, curating exhibitions, campaigns and corporate projects. She also chairs discussions on photography.
Loredana De Pace – Italian, English and Spanish
Curator, teacher and journalist. She runs Studio CAOS, a curatorial and editing practice based in Monza, Italy. She is a portfolio reviewer at Les Rencontres d'Arles and at Descubrimientos PHE (PHotoESPAÑA).
She is the author of the essay TUTTO PER UNA RAGIONE. Dieci riflessioni sulla fotografia (emuse, 2027) and of LE FANZINE NON SERVONO A NIENTE (e per questo sono indispensabili), Corsiero Editore, 2026.
As a curator she follows the work of a number of photographers and a range of publishing and exhibition projects, across books, fanzines and exhibitions, in Italy and abroad. Recent projects include Human Nature (Galleria Still, Milan, 2026), Sounds Good! (Les Rencontres d'Arles, 2026), Vivian Maier's The Self-Portrait and its Double (co-curator, Museo Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, 2022) and Volare!, with photographs by Massimo Sestini and by students of the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia (PhotoSquare Malpensa, 2024).
She has served on national and international juries and works with associations and festivals through talks and workshops on the fanzine, the self-portrait and the design and production of the portfolio. She is text editor for the Yeast Photo festival and a member of the scientific committee of ColornoPhotoLife. In 2023 she was artistic director of the FCF Gallery.
As a teacher she works with the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. She is also the director of NAKED fotografia messa a nudo, a new series published by Ventura Edizioni.
Stefano Mirabella – Italian
Italian photographer working in documentary and street photography. He teaches at Officine Fotografiche in Rome and is a member of the teaching staff of the prestigious Leica Akademie. He has been working consistently in street photography since 2012, and in 2014 he was one of the winners of the Leica Talent.
He came to photography in 2003, training at the leading schools in Rome and immediately setting out on a personal path oriented towards social reportage. His photographic travels have taken him to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, India, Syria and the occupied Palestinian territories, places that lie at the heart of his exhibitions and publications, shown in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
He was a member of the Italian collective Spontanea. In 2021 he curated the exhibition Caio Mario Garrubba – FREELANCE SULLA STRADA for Istituto Luce, contributing to the rediscovery of a key figure in twentieth-century Italian photography.
His photography, always poised between representing the real and the desire to go beyond it, is driven by a sincere and passionate approach, which he shares through his teaching and his daily practice.
Umberto Verdoliva – Italian
Umberto Verdoliva is an Italian photographer whose work is rooted in the tradition of humanist photography. He is also a portfolio reviewer and was named FIAF Author of the Year in Caorle in 2023. He collaborates with FOTO IT magazine, contributing reviews of photographers and photographic projects.
"I immediately fell in love with humanist photography. Over time, this awareness has led me to explore my “everyday life” in depth, in a constant search for poetry and beauty as essential qualities to be highlighted in human beings.
Photography is a parallel dimension to my professional and personal life, a tool I use to enter a world of my own, where I can tell stories, dream, recharge, feel good about myself and connect with others. Through images, I tell the story of everything I experience day after day: from the streets around my home to my workplace, from my family to the places where I live. I explore my own experience with an attentive eye and, I hope, with sensitivity, leaving traces and memories that may also belong to others.
In recent years, I have created numerous photographic projects which, although distinct from one another, represent a single, ongoing project: my story as a man, my memories, and my thoughts on life.
Alongside photography, I enjoy sharing my passion by leading workshops, exhibitions, portfolio reviews and presentations, as well as writing articles and in-depth pieces on photography.
Many of my photographs and photographic projects have been published in major Italian and international photography magazines."
Vincenzo Labellarte – Italian and English
Curator and photographer, he works with and publishes in the weekly l'Espresso and AR Magazine – the magazine of the Rome Order of Architects, and publishes in Int/Ar Journal of the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2024 he received the Friuli Venezia Giulia Fotografia prize from CRAF, the Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione Fotografica.
In 2014 he moved to Friuli, where he began a series of personal investigations into the region. He promotes and takes part in collective projects, and in 2017 he published Limine, curated by Massimo Siragusa.
He currently works in museum and architectural photography and in teaching, through workshops on photographic technique and language, and continues his personal research on landscape and territory, focusing on long-term projects.
