Enrico Stefanelli (b.1962, Lucca, Italy) is the founder and artistic director of Photolux Festival, the biennial of photography in Lucca, Italy. From 2010 to 2017, he worked as curator for the European Photo Exhibition Award (epea), a project sponsoring young photo talent, which developed as a collaboration between four European foundations, including the Körber Foundation in Germany.
He has been appointed as an expert for portfolio reviews at Les Rencontres d'Arles, CENTER, Santa Fe - Colorado, and Kaunas Festival in Lithuania. He has sat on the selection committee of the World Press Photo Foundation's Joop Swart Masterclass, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Prix Piclet. As well as the international jury for Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film.
He has also published various texts on photography in the international specialised press, and has curated exhibitions of renowned photographers such as Gianni Berengo Gardin and Stanley Greene. In addition to Tim Hetherington, Jan Saudek, Horst P. Horst, VII Agency, Nobuyoshy Araki, Boris Mikhailov and David Douglas Duncan.
Visit the official website of the Photolux Festival: https://www.photoluxfestival.it/en/
You can follow both the Photolux Festival - https://www.instagram.com/photoluxfest/ - and Enrico Stefanelli - https://www.instagram.com/enricostefanelli/ - on Instagram.
Michael Dooney: https://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 23. January 2025 between Perth (AU) and Lucca (IT).
Portrait of Enrico Stefanelli taken by Michael Dooney on 10. July 2024 in Lucca, Italy.
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