At the heart of Foto/Industria 2021 is the food industry, a theme of fundamental importance due to its inextricable link to wider questions of philosophy and biology, history and science, politics and economics.

Our primary need for food overlaps here with that of images. It is a journey that develops as part of a timeless, yet highly topical subject, given the rapid developments in a sector currently responding to the most important global transformations: demographics, climate change and sustainability. Through the filter of photography, “the mirror with a memory”, food bears witness to an era and a civilization, capable of narrating its relationship with tradition, nature, technology, the past, the future and much more.

Featuring Hans Finsler, Ando Gilardi, Jan Groover, Mishka Henner, Takashi Homma, Herbert List, Maurizio Montagna, Bernard Plossu, Vivien Sansour, Lorenzo Vitturi, Henk Wildschut.