The closing of MIA Photo Fair 2026 has revealed the winner of the Superstudio Photo Award, dedicated to the memory of Oliviero Toscani. Emerging from the ranks of the best European schools, Giulia Sidoli, a student at Atelier Smedsby in Paris, stood out and has now been awarded the significant technical and professional recognition offered by the initiative's partners.

The success of MIA Photo Fair 2026 is measured not only by its 10,000 total visitors or the presence of 111 exhibitors, but also by its ability to bet on the future. It is in this context that the Superstudio Photo Award—aimed at students under 28 and dedicated this year to the memory of Oliviero Toscani—commits to identifying and supporting new contemporary visual languages.

Yesterday morning, in the Conference Hall of Palazzo Reale in Milan, the elite of the creative world gathered to discover the plans for Superstudio Design 2026, a key event of Design Week. Among the approximately 350 guests crowding the room, from journalists to artists, the atmosphere was not the usual institutional one, but rather that typical energy of the Fuorisalone.

During the conference, it immediately emerged how art would hold a special place within the project, with artworks and design objects exhibited side by side and in dialogue with one another. 

Milan Fashion Week is in the full of its ferment and Superstudio Più has returned to be the main home of White Milano, from where it debuted in 2002. Inaugurated with the participation of the assessor Alessia Cappello, the event is transforming as always the Tortona Fashion District into a unique meeting point for anyone who seeks the future of fashion.

This year the conducting thread is “Tabula Rasa”. It is not only a title, but a true and proper manifesto: to zero out to reconstruct.

​​​​​​​An award designed to discover the future protagonists of auteur photography while they are still in school—just as happened to Oliviero Toscani, when Flavio Lucchini first spotted his talent at the Kunsthaus in Zurich. Together, MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas and Superstudio have created an award unlike any other, in collaboration with Europe’s leading photography schools, which submitted projects by their most promising students. Dedicated in its first edition to Oliviero Toscani, the Superstudio Photo Award will be a must-see event this March at MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas, in Via Tortona.

Ten distinct perspectives, capable of breaking free from citationism and rejecting imitation of the great masters in order to pursue an original path.