The activities of the Verzasca Foto Association are not just a series of cultural events: they are human encounters that take place each year among ancient stones, larch and chestnut forests, new faces, and cherished memories. They are born and grow from a simple yet radical idea: culture is a common good, to be experienced in an accessible, shared, and deeply rooted way in its surroundings.

Every project, every exhibition, every exchange between an artist and a local inhabitant is the result of an ethic of care: care for the landscape, for relationships, for time. An ethic that rejects the fast consumption of culture and instead chooses slowness, permanence, and attentive listening. These activities promote a kind of photography that observes, that tells stories, that brings people closer. That does not impose, but invites.

The impact we seek cannot be measured only in numbers, but in the glances that meet, in children taking their first photograph, in an elderly person recognizing their father in an archival image. It is an impact that lasts over time, settles, and builds living memory.

Our sustainability is made up of daily choices: local materials, collaboration with valley artisans, respect for natural rhythms, authentic hospitality. It is a pact of trust with the territory, with those who support us, with those who return each year or stumble upon us by chance and leave touched.

The activities of Verzasca Foto are a promise kept: that art can exist outside major cities, within the forests, among the people—and do so with beauty, humility, and depth.

Contact
Associazione Verzasca Foto
CH-6634 Brione (Verzasca)
Switzerland

info[at]verzascafoto.ch
+41 91 689 68 09

Festival Team

Alfio Tommasini director/curator
Mattia Bisi vice-director
Frieder Licht visitor relations and concerts coordinator
Gregory Tiani assistant director
Beatrice Gorelli media coordinator
Matilde Beretta curating assistant, interior designer

Associazione Verzasca Foto
Committee

Luca Langensand president
Violetta Monaco
Cecilia Beretta
Jaldara Gianettoni
Manolo Piazza

Festival days team e support

Duska Beretta kitchen team manager
Andrea Graf, Mauro Beretta, Nico Lorenzetti exhibitions set-up
+ Nathalie Vigini, Camilla Bernardasci, Violetta Monaco, Marcel Bisi, Noè Zardi, Giovanni Soldati, Manolo Piazza, Martino Lepori, Alessia Maestrini, Cristina Marocco, Daïen Gobbi, Federico Moro, Hugo Perret, Xavier Daniel, Gea Lombardi, Cecilia Beretta, Giacomina De Bolla, Stefania Bisi, Jaldara Gianettoni, Lorenzo De Neri
+ Fondazione il Gabbiano -Progetto Macondo.

Casa Azul Coordinator
Mattia Bisi

Verzasca Foto founders (est. 2013)
Alfio Tommasini, Rico Baumann, Matilde Beretta

FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL

CULTURAL
Progetto Macondo, Fondazione il Gabbiano
Grotto Efra, Sonogno
Museo di Val Verzasca, Sonogno
La Rada, Locarno
Teatro Paravento, Locarno
Babel Festival, Bellinzona
San Jose Foto Festival, Uruguay
PHMuseum (Photographic Museum of Humanity)
Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
Odesa Photo Days, Ukraine
near. swiss association for 
contemporary photography

INSTITUTIONAL
Comune di Verzasca
Ente Regionale per lo Sviluppo Locarnese e Vallemaggia
Progettiamo.ch - crowdfunding platform

LOGISTICAL
SES Società Elettrica Sopracenerina
Fratelli Matasci SA, Tenero
Lokalino, Brione (Verzasca)
Ristorante Alpino, Sonogno
Bocciofila Monte Zucchero, Sonogno
La Goccia SA, Bellinzona
Centri OCST per l'infanzia
Circolo Carlo Vanza
Ristorante Sportivi, Gordola

MEDIA
RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana
mag72.com
fotoagenda.ch

Contributo finanziario del Cantone Ticino derivante dall'Aiuto federale per la salvaguardia e la promozione della cultura e della lingua italiana.