‘No poor person decides how they get photographed’

The town of Africo in southern Italy, photographed in 1948. The living conditions exposed by the reportage shocked the country. From the Il caso Africo exhibition.
Photograph: Archivio Publifoto Intesa Sanpaolo

The theme of this year’s Cortona on the Move festival, held annually in Tuscany, is More or Less, and the way in which those two categories can be used to understand ourselves and our world.

Across 26 exhibitions, documentary photographers explore the contrasts between wealth and poverty, abundance and scarcity, and the marginal and the mainstream.