PENELOPE UMBRICO
Umbrico will talk about her recent photo-based work which utilizes an archive of roughly 28,000 photographs of used objects for sale that she has collected over the past 10 years from consumer-to-consumer web platforms such as eBay, Alibaba, Craigslist and office liquidation warehouses. As an archive of this moment, the sheer volume of images render visible the monumentality of our Post-Internet consumer habits, and their effects on our environment.

WALEAD BESHTY
Walead Beshty’s work reflects on the history of industrial media and its deep entrenchment in our daily lives, investigating its effects on our social and political world. Through not only his art, but his writing and curatorial practice, Beshty has made significant contributions both artistically and academically to the field of technical media.

JOEL MEYEROWITZ
Joel Meyerowitz is one of the most important master photographers of our time, among the first to understand the communicative power of colour. In this talk the artist, an essential reference figure for street photography and portraits, will retrace his life and career with historian and photographer Lorenzo Braca.

ROGER BALLEN
One of the most influential and important photographic artists of the 21st century, Roger Ballen’s photographs span over forty years.  His strange and extreme works confront the viewers and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own. Ballen describes his works as existential psychodramas that touch the subconscious mind and evoke the underbelly of the human condition.

GIULIANO SCABIA, MARCO ANTONIO BAZZOCCHI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA MARTINI
DIALOGUE ON THE WORK OF LISETTA CARMI
Giovanni Battista Martini, curator of the Lisetta Carmi exhibition at Foto/Industria, Giuliano Scabia writer and playwright, author of the texts of Luigi Nono's composition La fabbrica illuminata (1964) that accompanies the exhibition at the Oratory of Santa Maria della Vita and Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, (University of Bologna) discuss the work of Lisetta Carmi(1924), one of the most important photographers of the Italian twentieth century. 
As part of Foto/Industria at Santa Maria della Vita, two works by Lisetta Carmi, both made in 1964, are on display. The first is a project on the port of Genoa, where she portrays with the same intensity the majestic and terrifying forms and the toil of men. The second is a series on the Italsider, also made in Genoa, still largely unpublished and characterised by an evident experimental impulse, where abstraction and work are combined in an indissoluble and powerful amalgam.
The exhibition is accompanied by the music of Luigi Nono, who visited the Italsider plant with Lisetta Carmi in 1964, recorded the noises and used them as the basis for "La fabbrica illuminata", a composition for voice and four-track magnetic tape on texts by Giuliano Scabia and a fragment by Cesare Pavese, dedicated to the workers of Italsider in Genoa-Corniglian.

GEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN
PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL FOR THINKING: FROM THE ARCHIVE TO THE ATLAS
Introduction by Marco Antonio Bazzocchi
Any philosopher or art historian with an interest in images must also do justice to them in practical terms: one cannot think about images without also making images and experimenting with framing them, mounting them, placing them into an archive or — something quite different — an atlas. In what way do images make us think?

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JIM GOLDBERG
I SMELL SMOKE
Jim Goldberg’s work, developed over a career spanning more than forty years, appears ever more relevant, dealing with the contradictions of contemporary society and their impact on people on the margins. Outcasts in every country and culture are generally considered to be disturbing factors and reflect our fears. Through his camera, the American photographer gives a face to these men and women and represents them with great empathy, respecting them in their individuality and, at the same time, revealing something about ourselves.

PIETER HUGO
STAGED REALITIES
The research of South African photographer Pieter Hugo investigates specific social realities of countries such as South Africa and Rwanda, portraits of outsiders and outcasts who represent a fundamental part of Africa's history. Pieter Hugo was a guest at MAST in 2017 for a conference and, in the same year, he was among the protagonists of Work in Motion, the first exhibition project of Fondazione MAST entirely dedicated to the moving image.

PAUL GRAHAM
THE WHITENESS OF THE WHALE
A major figure in contemporary photography, with his work Paul Graham contribuited to the renewal of the documentary style. On the occasion of a Talk at MAST in 2018, he described his 40-year photographic projects produced in Great Britain and the United States.

JOAN FONTCUBERTA
PROJECT X.B. / DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF VIVIAN MAIER
If journalism, politics, and science are sometimes the object of mystification or distraction, why should the art world be different? When it comes to photography, the mysterious discovery of gardener photographer Charles Jones or of nanny photographer Vivian Maier question us about the building of authorship, artistic authority and acknowledgement that are at the basis of the art market. The Catalan artist, guest at MAST on the occasion of Foto/Industria 2017, shows us how the credulity machine works.

MARTIN PARR
The famous photographer, curator and collector Martin Parr was a guest at MAST on the occasion of the exhibition "From albums to photobooks. Italian industry in 120 volumes. Savina Palmieri Collection" which took place in 2015 as part of Foto/Industria, the Biennial of Photography on Industry and Work. In a conversation with François Hébel, artistic director of the second edition of the biennial, and Urs Stahel, curator of the exhibition, he talked about the importance of the photographic book in the history of photography and his passion for photographic books, which led him to collect about 12,000 of them.

JEFF WALL
Key figure in contemporary photography and one of the most successful international artists, at the MAST Jeff Wall retraces his entire career and illustrates the relationship between his photographic works and painting, cinema and literature.

EDWARD BURTYNSKY AND THE MAST FOUNDATION
The collaboration between Edward Burtynsky and the MAST Foundation began in 2015 with the exhibition MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES, one of 14 exhibitions of FOTO/INDUSTRIA that documented the effects of industrialization on the environment and anticipated the ANTHROPOCENE project whose exhibition was hosted at MAST in 2019.

> THE EXHIBITION
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES – FOTO/INDUSTRIA Biennial of photography on industry and work
03.10- 21.11. 2015

> MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
EDWARD BURTYNSKY DIALOGUES WITH FRANÇOIS HÉBEL
On the occasion of the screening at MAST of the film “Manufactured Landscapes” (watch the trailer), the first chapter of the trilogy that includes "Watermark" (2013) and "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch" (2018), the Canadian artist describes the genesis of his work focused on the relationship between man and nature in dialogue with François Hébel, Artistic Director of Foto/Industria 2015.

> EXHIBITION
ANTHROPOCENE 
Edward Burtynsky – Jennifer Baichwal - Nicholas De Pencier
16.05.2019 – 05.01.2020

> EDWARD BURTYNSKY, JENNIFER BAICHWAL E NICHOLAS DE PENCIER 
DIALOGUE WITH URS STAHEL
In the European premiere at MAST, the three artists present the ANTHROPOCENE project, the result of a four-year collaboration combining art, cinema, augmented reality and scientific research. It documents the changes that humankind has imprinted on the Earth and testifies the effects of human footprint on natural processes.

> GABRIELE SALVATORES MEETS EDWARD BURTYNSKY, JENNIFER BAICHWAL AND NICHOLAS DE PENCIER
PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS ON THE TRACKS OF OUR PASSAGE ON THIS PLANET. TECHNIQUES, VIEWS, ART AND TECHNOLOGY. A journey to discover the inspiring motives and artistic research that brought to the creation of the multidisciplinary project Anthropocene, accompanied by Italian Academy Award winning film director Gabriele Salvatores.

INDUSTRY, NOW
CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM MAST COLLECTION
The 2015 exhibition at MAST presents images of contemporary industry as captured in the photos of twenty-four artists and photographers, offering a reflection on the representation of the industrial landscape. The exhibition features work by artists who represent the production processes and their links with society, exploring the balance of power and the influence of industry on human beings and on nature.

> EXHIBITION
INDUSTRY, NOW - CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM MAST COLLECTION
Curated by Urs Stahel  |  MAST 14.05-6.09.2015

> VERA LUTTER
INVERTED WORLDS LIGHTS
One of the protagonists of the Industry, Now exhibition describes her photographic research on industrial structures and presents her impressive “Battersea Power Station, II: July 3, 2004” work on show at the MAST.

> ROUND TABLE
ITALIAN VIEW: CONTEMPORARY INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Round table discussion with the photographers Olivo Barbieri, Francesco Jodice, Paola De Pietri and Carlo Valsecchi, among the protagonists of the exhibition Industry, Now, moderated by Denis Curti.

EMIL OTTO HOPPÉ: UNVEILING A SECRET
INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, 1912 - 1937
The 2015 exhibition at MAST brings to the attention of the public one of the most important photographers of the 20th century whose work had remained hidden in a London photo archive for a long time. His incredible story is told by Graham Howe, owner of the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection, and Phillip Prodger, curator and art historian.

> EXHIBITION
EMIL OTTO HOPPÉ: UNVEILING A SECRET. INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, 1912 - 1937
Curated by Urs Stahel  |  MAST 21.01-03.05.2015

> GRAHAM HOWE
RETRIEVING LOST HISTORY: THE E. O. HOPPÉ CONNECTIONS

> PHILLIP PRODGER
LIFE AND WORKS OF E. O. HOPPÉ

DAYANITA SINGH
The Indian artist explains her “Museum of Machine” exhibited at MAST in 2016.