Franco Fontana’s “Retrospective” photo exhibit at Rome’s Ara Pacis Museum, January 5th, 2025

Franco Fontana is one of the deans of Italian photojournalism.  His “Retrospective” photo exhibit is currently on until August 31^st, 2025 at Rome’s central Ara Pacis Museum (it had been visited 80+ years ago by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler during the German leader’s official visit to Rome).

Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena, Italy.  He began photographing in 1961 and since then has published over 50 books on the world of photography.  His work has encompassed landscape photography as well as fashion (“Vogue”), technology and also a wide array of colourful street photography. 

 
Fontana’s work can be seen in over 50 museums worldwide, including Rochester’s International Museum of Photography, New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Moscow’s Puskin Museum of Fine Art.