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Beautiful Country: Cortona international photography festival – in pictures

Cortona on the Move 2026, an international photography festival, has opened with the theme Beautiful Country. More than 30 exhibitions explore Italy in all its complexity, blending the spirit of the aristocratic grand...

Beautiful Country: Cortona international photography festival – in pictures
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Cortona on the Move 2026, an international photography festival, has opened with the theme Beautiful Country. More than 30 exhibitions explore Italy in all its complexity, blending the spirit of the aristocratic grand tour with the depth of contemporary documentaries

The Queen, traditional costume, Venice

L’allongée, from the Skin of Lava series, 2022

Pisa, Piazza dei Miracoli

Agata, from the Battle Royale project, 2019

New Year’s Eve in Aprilia, 2005

Crespina quarry, Fivizzano

Punta Licosa, Campania, 2026

Roma, 2014, from When the Night Falls

Agip service station, 1959, Cerignola

Sophia Loren at the Venice film festival, 1955

Anita Ekberg and Federico Fellini on the set of La Dolce Vita, Rome, 1959

The photographer Rino Barillari with the actor Audrey Hepburn in Rome in the 1960s

Via Nervesa, Via Longanesi, 1979

View from the Schifa building, Atena Lucana, Salerno, 2026

An activist protests in Lützerath, Germany, in 2023 against the construction of a coal mine

The Arganil fire brigade tackles a wildfire in the Coimbra district of Portugal in August 2025

Picking angel’s trumpets behind a convent in Rome, 1990

03 Vesuvio I, 2025

View from Vesuvio III, 2025

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