photography-award

2025 Edition

The sixth edition of Tosetti Value Photography Award was assigned to Alterazioni video.

Alterazioni video investigates the relationship between images, power, communication devices, and global geopolitical issues. Since the early 2000s, the collective has developed a distinctive artistic practice centered on recurring themes that analyze network cultures and their hegemonic functions in shaping today’s political culture. Emerging from a generation that grew up embracing the subversive and transformative potential of the early internet, over the years Alterazioni video has built a discourse deeply aware of the disruption of the positivist political premises that underpinned the activism of the 1990s.

We are both donkeys is part of the recent series Dead writers smell like forgotten piss, and it powerfully, profoundly, and aptly explores the relationship between image and reality through traditional photography, its materialization via printing, its transformation through digital acquisition, and further elaboration using Artificial Intelligence. Confronted with this complex creative process, the work asks viewers: what is reality? How can we distinguish it from its construction through digital media? In what ways are images generated by networks connected to the world around us? How do they build it — crafting truths and credible fictions? Alterazioni video’s work does not provide an answer to these questions but invites deeper reflection on contemporary issues.

Jury

1. Chiara Agradi, curator Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Pars
2. Lucrezia Cippitelli, Co-Director contemporary art programme, Kunst Meran, Merano
3. Walter Guadagnini, Director, CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin

Photo courtesy: © Perottino-Piva-Peirone / Artissima