UNEXPECTED GEOGRAPHIES: PLACES, MAPS, EXPLORATIONS

The American landscape as seen through the car’s rear-view mirror and windows. A visionary exploration beyond the already known, beyond the obvious, in a game of reflections and ironic references, in which each shot offers a new vision of the States.

London artist Jacqui Kenny has been suffering from agoraphobia for a long time but has found a way to travel the world without leaving her home, thanks to the internet, photography and a good deal of creativity. She also opened a successful Instagram account with thousands of followers.

The result of a long bicycle trip in two stages along Italian coasts, “Orizzonte in Italia” by Antonio Rovaldi is a complex image that has formed over time, through an accumulation of gazes; it is at the same time the trace of an experience, personal and circumscribed, and of an imaginary world, collective and boundless.

The story of the long, invisible border that for over 40 years divided Europe into two spheres of political influence. In 2008, Monteleone travelled 4000 km to document, with a descriptive and narrative look, a profound rift whose legacy can still be felt today.

A passionate photographer, the poet symbol of the Beat Generation captured moments taken of the vortex of existence. A diary in pictures, taken travelling “on the road” through many countries with the greatest “beautiful minds” of American counterculture.

“Il viaggiatore parallelo” collects images and words that the author gathered over many years, travelling by train across the Italian peninsula. A book that gives us a deep and parallel feeling of the journey, in which people and views, different spaces and times connect and are reflected in each other.

A great traveler, Plossu has photographed and lived in various parts of the world, but the desert is one of the recurring themes in his work. His emphatic gaze rests on landscapes, things and people, following with a spontaneous approach and without hierarchies, the unstable rhythm of life and the pace of the journey.

Photography as a device capable of activating a thought, through which re-reading the landscape and the territory: from the seminal approach of Luigi Ghirri to Andrea Abati’s work and the more recent project “Around the Walk”.

The artist subverts the usual relationship between photography and travel to create a completely new, anti-tourist, and anti-spectacular product and places the very act of traveling at the center of his reflection. The focus is on the journey, not the destination, in a deconstruction of traditional forms of representation.

According to the author, “the only way to photograph and observe the world is to walk”. And by walking, along ancient and modern mountain paths, he has written a book – not a travel guide, but one that contains a philosophy of life. Here we also show the photos that marked his travel when creating the book.

“Truth or Consequences” by Roberto Boccaccino is a story of love, infidelity and toponomy, where each sentence is a journey thousands of miles long, which travels the whole globe, looking at it from a screen, and explores it on Google maps.

Back to the origins of the postcard, which changed travel-related communication. A real publishing success that intertwined its destiny with photography, a beloved medium to which globetrotters entrusted their messages and thoughts, nowadays mainly a collector’s item.

A long journey through the US in search of the profound identity and frailties of the country. Thoughtful images revealing aspects of reality that are not immediately evident, thanks to the photographer’s ability to capture the seemingly insignificant and grasp its complexity.