永恒之城 雷纳托·圣蒂基亚Citta eterna by Renato Sarticchia

11月15日至19日举行的2017丽水摄影节上，一个名为ITALY TASTE OF BEAUTY的展览，以30位意大利优秀摄影师的300幅精选摄影作品，呈现出意大利人眼中独有的审美，吸引了众多摄影人和普通观众的目光。

展览的策划组织者，是意大利职业摄影师协会秘书长克劳迪奥·布鲁福勒，他是丽水摄影节的国际“忠粉”。早在1999年，他就到过丽水。那年，正是丽水摄影开启新纪元的时候，承办第四届中国摄影艺术节，被中国摄影家协会授予首个“中国摄影之乡”。此后，克劳迪奥·布鲁福勒又多次到丽水，先后带领上百个意大利摄影家参加丽水摄影节的展览和采风活动，还促成了丽水摄影节与意大利奥尔维耶托摄影节的长期友好合作。

这么多年丽水的发展变化，克劳迪奥·布鲁福勒看在眼里：“城市各项基础设施建设水平很高。我曾经在上海看到过一个标语——‘城市，让生活更美好’，这和现在的丽水非常符合。”而2017丽水摄影节，共有1050个展览，汇集50多个国家和地区的摄影作品，在15个展区内展出，数量和规模均创下历史之最，这更让克劳迪奥·布鲁福勒感叹：“我从没见过这么大规模的摄影活动，我们没有能力在一个城市举办这么大的摄影节。”他认为，只有在丽水，只有在中国，才能办得到。

作为意大利EBlu图片机构创始人，又曾在国际摄影基金会任职，克劳迪奥·布鲁福勒去过很多国家。他坦言：“中国是唯一一个在政策上非常促进摄影发展的国家。”他说：“我去过湖南、河南、深圳等很多地方，看到当地政府都很支持摄影，特别是在资金上。但是在其他很多国家，他们的摄影活动大都是自己办的，很少能得到政府的支持”。

在丽水摄影节观展时，克劳迪奥·布鲁福勒发现，一些中国摄影师更喜欢实验性的摄影，而不是传统的摄影。他说，从意大利的文化历史来看，包括文艺复兴时期的很多艺术名家的创造来看，很多当时觉得是实验性的艺术，现在看来并不是真正好的艺术，而只是一种混杂的、让人比较迷惑的东西。所以，实验性的和传统的相比，不见得实验性的一定就更好。

克劳迪奥·布鲁福勒还发现了中西方摄影人在展示照片时的一些不同之处。他说，在欧洲，在Facebook上，照片都是大量地铺上去，没有筛选，好照片和坏照片没有一个界定，“没有人告诉你什么是好的什么是坏的，你必须得有一定知识上、技术上的基础和专业背景才能辨识。但是在中国，也许是因为没有传播广的照片类的网站，所以摄影师会先告诉你什么是好的照片，展示的也是挑选过的好的照片，不用你从大量照片中自己去识别，这是一个耐人寻味的现象”。

“我所在的意大利职业摄影师协会，在离罗马一个小时路程的一个很古老的小镇上。我很早就来中国，请中国摄影师在那里办展。”克劳迪奥·布鲁福勒表示，摄影是文化的桥梁，给当地人说中文，他们看不懂，但是给他们看图片，就很容易懂。克劳迪奥·布鲁福勒还特别提到，中国的“一带一路”倡议，其中一项重要内容就是民心相通，摄影这种跨越语言障碍的艺术正好能在这方面发挥更好的作用。

An exhibition with the name ITALY TASTE OF BEAUTY, displaying 300 pieces of selected artworks of 30 fine Italian photographers while showcasing the unique aesthetics of Italian people, has drawn attention from many photographers and common viewers during the 2017 Lishui Exhibition Festival on 15-19, November.

Claudio Brufola, Secretary-general of Italy Expo Photo, is the event organizer, a Diehard Fan of the Lishui Exhibition Festival. He has been to the city as early as 1999, during which the festival has started a new era, undertaking the fourth Chinese Photography Festival with an laurel of "home of Chinese photography" by the Chinese Photographers Association for the first time. Since then, Claudio Brufola has visited Lishui for many times, bringing over a hundred photographers from Italy to participate into the Lishui Photography Festival exhibition and other photo-taking activities and contributing to the long-term friendly cooperation between the Lishui Photography Festival and the Orvieto Photography Festival in Italy.

To Claudio Brufola, all the development and changes of Lishui in the past few years are in his eyes: the infrastructure construction level of the city is very high. I have seen a slogan in Shanghai - a city, making a better life, which is in line with the present Lishui. For the 2017 Lishui Exhibition Festival, some 1,050 minor exhibitions, convening photos from over 50 countries and regions in 15 separate exhibiting areas, have created the highest level in both amount and scale in history, for which Claudio Brufola exclaimed: I've never seen such a large scale of photography event, and we don't have the ability to hold such a large photo festival in a city. Only in Lishui, in China, in his opinion, can this happen accordingly.

Claudio Brufola, founder of EBlu, an institution of photos in Italy and once held a position in Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, has been to a number of countries, however, he confessed: China is the only country that promotes photography in terms of policy.He said: I have been to Hunan, Henan, Shenzhen and other cities in China, and local governments all support photography very much, especial in fund. But in many other countries, the photography events are mostly sponsored by private sectors, rarely receiving support of government.

He found, during his tour in the festival, that some Chinese photographers prefer experimental photography, not the traditional. According to Claudio Brufola, from the cultural history of Italy and artworks of many famous artists in the Renaissance,many experimental arts at that time are not truly good art, but just confusion. Hence,compared with the tradition, experimental may not be the better choice.

It is also discovered by Claudio Brufola that the way of displaying the photos by Chinese and western photographers was quite different. He said, in Europe, photos are uploaded to facebook in a large number without screening, there is no definition between good and bad photos. Nobody tells you what is right or wrong, you can only identify with a certain amount of knowledge, technical basis and professional background. But in China,perhaps there is no website focusing on photos with much influence, so photographers will tell you about the good photo first, and all the exhibits are also selected photos, you don’t have to identify by yourself, which is an intriguing phenomenon.

The Expo Photo, where I work, is in a very old small town, an-hour drive from Rome. I have been to China very early, and introduced Chinese photographers to hold exhibition in that town. According to Claudio Brufola, photography is a bridge of culture, locals don’t under if you speak in Chinese, but much easy if you show them the photos. And he mentioned in particular that one of the most important contents is people-to-people bond in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, photography, an art crossing the barrier of language, just plays a better role in this area.

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