The manifestation is a congregation point for the most innovative and interesting proposals of the international panorama, and by now is an unforgettable meeting  and exchange point for the entire system of photography, from artists to artistic insiders, passing through to the simply passionate.
"See normality. Photography recounts the daily": this is the title and the central theme of Fotografia 2008.
"The aim...-says Director Delogu-is to recount daily life, beginning with the presupposition that photography is the best, most efficient and contemporary fascinating instrument with which to recount every day life, the world which circles us, the normality in contrast to the extraordinary."
The heart of the manifestation is the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, seat of the most important works, beginning with the retrospective on the Tevere by Gabriele Basilico, which shows images of the capital River  with bizarre viewpoints and lighting, "normal and daily" image snatches  a long way away from the pictures on tourist postcards.
The principal location of the event has been confirmed as the Museum of Rome in Trastevere and the National Gallery of Modern Art. An important new location is the Macello IV al Mattatatoio, already seat of experimentation situations with Enzimi, who hosted the event The Pics of Tomorrow, which was dedicated to new extreme and spiritual forms of contemporary photography.

FotoGrafia declares itself to be a festival dedicated to young emerging photographic art, which offers a panorama of international artistic expression, which is more current, interesting and innovative.
Three young artists, Paolo Woods, Leonie Purchase and Lucia Nimcva all born in the 70's, are the protagonists in some exhibitions at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
A choral representation narrating the experimental normality along the path of their journeys.
Paolo Woods with "The far west Chinese" recounts his journey/research into the industrial neo-colonialism of the rampant Asian tiger in African lands. It's the courageous testimony of an event, which is not spoken about, and is instead, profited from.
Leonie Purchase's "In the shadow of things" completes her artistic project, which after having travelled all around the world, from Cuba to London, now sees her turning back to the middle of the domestic scene, immortalising private scenes within her own family. The images are all unfocused, because the context is eluding, as often relationships can be, even family ones.
Lucia Nimcova, Slovakian winner of the new Premio Internazionale fotografia Baume & Mercier, presents his work, realised thanks to the prize, which describes the utopistic communist system across the history of his birth city, Humennem, illustrated by original images and archive photos.
The programme of the festival this time, reserves a space for Italian reality. A collection dedicated to the "normality" of Italy, with the title "Only in Italy", and hosted at the Rome Museum at Trastevere.
The creators Daniele Dainelli, Francesco Cocco, Lorenzo Cicconi Massi and Massimo Siracusa, lead us, with their images, through an involving journey  across four seasons in Italy, metaphors for the seasons of life. From the winter of the suburbs where new ethnic communities are housed, to the spring of the symbolic piazzas of Italy in the countryside, to the summer of vacations set against the desert of empty industrial spaces, to the autumn of the Mediterranean, made up of beaches and a nature which needs retrieving and saving.