The 12th Siena Awards Photo Festival is into its final weeks, with exhibitions across Siena and the surrounding area open until 29 November 2026. Headline shows include a major James Nachtwey retrospective and Pierpaolo Mittica’s project revisiting Chernobyl 40 years on.

This year’s festival draws on more than 40,000 submissions from 163 countries across its three international competitions, and the exhibitions range from conflict and politics to environmental change and the natural world. If you’re planning a late-autumn trip to Tuscany, it’s well worth building a day or two around it.

Solo exhibitions

James Nachtwey’s Witness to Our Time is a major retrospective of his work, at Centro Culturale La Tinaia in Sovicille. Pierpaolo Mittica presents Chernobyl: Memory of a Disaster, revisiting the nuclear disaster 40 years after the explosion of Reactor No. 4. Cinzia Canneri, winner of the 2025 World Press Photo Award in the Long-Term Projects Africa category, shows Women’s Bodies as Battlefields, documenting the consequences of the war in Tigray. Jasper Doest’s Meet Bob tells the story of a rescued Caribbean flamingo that became a symbol of wildlife conservation in Curaçao, and Uğur Gallenkuş’s Parallel Universes brings together 50 digital collages juxtaposing war and humanitarian crisis with everyday life in more privileged societies.

Power, war and a planet in transformation

Photojournalism projects include Andrew Harnik’s coverage of Trump’s first year of his second term, Carol Guzy’s ICE, and work from Gaza, Ukraine and Syria by Saher Alghorra, Paula Bronstein and Santi Palacios. On the environment, George Steinmetz’s China Goes Green documents China’s energy transition, Ozge Elif Kizil follows Waorani Indigenous defenders of the Amazon, and Lys Arango’s Until the Corn Grows Back explores the impact of climate change on Indigenous communities in Guatemala.

There are also exhibitions from the Drone Photo Awards (Above Us Only Sky) and Creative Photo Awards (I Wonder If You Can), plus the Siena International Photo Awards winners in People Sharing All the World.

Key details

Price and availability

A single ticket covers all exhibitions: €17, €14 for over-65s, €7 for students, and free for under-12s accompanied by a parent. Tickets are available from the festival ticket site, and full exhibition details are on the Siena Awards website.