Voice.com brings NFTs to the PhotoVogue Festival
The NFT marketplace for emerging artists and collectors initiates conversation about the benefits and challenges of Web3
MILAN, 31 October 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Voice, the leading NFT marketplace, is the official digital arts partner of PhotoVogue Festival 2022, a groundbreaking gathering in MilanItaly.
The event is a continuation of the partnership between the two organizations that share a common focus: to support the new voices that will shape our future. Their collaboration began this summer with an NFT Residency program, PhotoVogue’s first project in the Web3 space.
Voice and PhotoVogue will host a panel at the festival titled, NFTs: A photographer’s friend or foe? on Saturday 19 November on 19.00 CET, where some of the industry’s most powerful players will meet the NFT revolution head on. Panelists include the Head of Global PhotoVogue Alessia Glavianofamous photographer Roe Etheridgeand founder and director of the African Artists’ Foundation and founder of the Lagos Photo Festival, Azu Nwagbogu. Voice’s co-founder and CEO Salah Zalatimo will moderate the conversation.
Photographers are one of the groups most poised to benefit from the rise of NFTs, as their medium easily adapts to a digital space – but many remain skeptical.
“The PhotoVogue Festival is the epicenter of the photography community – so there’s no better place to have the conversation about how to shape Web3,” says Zalatimo. “Together we can ensure that photography leads the way into the future of art.”
The PhotoVogue Festival is open to the public in Milan from 17-20 November. The PhotoVogue NFT collection is available for purchase with a credit card Voice.com/photovoguewith new art dropping throughout the months of October and November.
About Voice
Voice is a digital art marketplace for emerging artists and collectors. The user-friendly platform is built on blockchain and allows digital art sales through environmentally sustainable practices.
For more information, visit www.voice.com.
About PhotoVogue
PhotoVogue curates a pool of incredible image creators from around the world to create an international database of the most interesting and diverse voices in contemporary photography. Our mission has always been and will continue to be to champion talent, reach into historically excluded communities, improve visual literacy and shape a more just, ethical and inclusive visual world. Drive past Alessia Glavianothe program connects artists, society and commerce through Condé Nast’s global creative network.
PhotoVogue runs an annual festival in Milan. The first conscious fashion photography festival dedicated to the common ground between ethics and aesthetics. The PhotoVogue Festival is a unique, one-of-a-kind event. Bringing our community together since 2016, it touches on meaningful contemporary issues and advances the conversation around promoting creativity and diversity in image making.
Learn more at www.vogue.com/photovogue.
SOURCE Voice
