Sustainable Events: Yeast Photo festival
Yeast Photo Festival
and Everything is Connected
towards a sustainable festival
For the 2023 edition, with Yeast Photo Festival, we have embarked on a journey that takes steps towards a responsible and sustainable festival, from an environmental and social point of view.
Yeast Photo Festival becomes the bearer of small actions that aim to make noise among the cultural events that spread stories through photography.
Everything is Connected mapped the public fountains of Matino (Italy), inviting people to use filling bottles for water; asked locals and visitors to help us be more sustainable creating a survey spread around town; helped conceiving the exhibitions, thinking of reducing what we produce, as much as possible, applying a circular thinking, and using waste materials from Officine Tamborrino; undertook an action to offset CO2 production through planting activities.
Make yourself uncomfortable
With the support of Officine Tamborrino
Are we 8 billion individuals, or are we one large connected community?
The theme underlying the environmental crisis is precisely the lack of collective consciousness, the idea that there are many of us, the justification of the consumption and waste of resources with the large number of people on Earth, feeling like small individuals compared to great epochal events.
A broken room, just as the Earth is broken. An Earth that makes noise.
An invitation to make ourselves uncomfortable because it is precisely the exasperated search for comfort that has distanced us from ourselves and from nature, regardless of the impact that comfort has on the Earth. But perhaps, there is really no escaping from this; these noises and the moaning of the Earth belong to us – and return to us – as we are nature.
An installation made only of waste, of burnt olive tree trunks – symbol of the desertification of Salento – and a scientific narrative, contextualized to the territory and proposing concrete actions. That’s how we have told the initiatives that, together with Yeast Photo Festival, we have undertaken.
It’s not all we could have done, but it’s a series of important steps towards a jagged and complex journey, and at the same time full of care and love for the Earth, hopeful that if the noise gets louder and louder, we could truly become a single family of 8 billion people.
Do we live on or are we part of a planet? - Frederic Hanusch
Education – Science
Planetary Health and Visual Culture - David Cross
Education – Science – Visual Art
The need for a Xenourbanism - Rossella Ferorelli
Education – Public Space – Science
Secret Sarayaku - Misha Vallejo
Education – Social Innovation – Visual Art
Photography and the climate emergency - Symposium III
Education – Science – Visual Art
Empathy and Connection in Environmental Storytelling
Education – Science – Visual Art
Contemporary Photography and Public Engagement
Education – Public Space – Science – Social Innovation – Visual Art
Beyond photographic limits - L. Fritz Magazine
Mass Media – Visual Art
Alternative Aesthetics in Environmental Storytelling
Education – Science – Visual Art
How to make the invisible, visible? AIR by Marina Vitaglione
Science – Visual Art
Towards Trans-disciplinarity
Education – Public Space – Science – Visual Art
How photography can address climate crisis as a social justice issue
Education – Mass Media – Visual Art
Visualizing the Climate Crisis:
Ocean Acidification
Science – Visual Art
Taranthon reloaded:
co-design edition
Education – Social innovation
Visualizing the Climate Crisis:
Virtual Water
Education – Science – Visual Art
Visualizing the Climate Crisis:
the Fashion System
Education – Mass Media – Visual Art