Trieste Photo Days and Exhibit Around APS present in Assisi the international photography exhibition The Canticle of the Creatures, created on the occasion of the eighth centenary of Saint Francis’s hymn.
Produced in collaboration with the Order of Friars Minor – OFM Fraternitas Foundation, the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical Antonianum University, GPIC Friars Minor of Italy and Albania, and co-organised by the Municipality of Assisi, the exhibition celebrates the beauty of creation through photography.
The official opening is scheduled for Sunday 31 August 2025 at 6:00 pm
Palazzo Monte Frumentario
Assisi, Via San Francesco, 5A
Programme:
- Introduction: Fr. Francesco Zecca, OFM – Project Coordinator
- Institutional Greetings: Valter Stoppini – Mayor of Assisi, Fr. Francesco Piloni, OFM – Provincial Minister
- Speakers: Fr. Antonino Clemenza, OFM – Pontifical Antonianum University, Stefano Ambroset and Mara Zanette – Exhibit Around APS / Trieste Photo Days, Dario De Dominicis – photojournalist and documentary photographer
- Musical Performance: Fr. Alessandro Brustenghi, OFM
Over 100 works will be on display, selected from more than 6,000 submissions from around the world. The photographers have interpreted the nine themes of Saint Francis’s celebrated hymn: from the light of Brother Sun to the mystery of Sister Moon and the Stars, from the power of the Wind to the humility of Water, from the energy of Fire to the fertility of the Earth, up to the encounter with Sister Death.
A special section of the exhibition is dedicated to photographs by renowned photojournalist Dario De Dominicis, taken from his project The Franciscan Soul of Brazil. This reportage, created between 2013 and 2017, documents the second most important pilgrimage in the world dedicated to Saint Francis, held in the Northeast of Brazil.
The exhibition will be open at Palazzo Monte Frumentario every day from 10am to 6pm, from 1 to 21 September 2025.
