Les Recontres d’Arles 2024, under the surface
Les Recontres d’Arles 2024, under the surface by Ilaria Abbiento
LORENZO CASTORE
Alla Spot Home Gallery di Napoli la mostra dal titolo “Turning Point” con fotografie di Michael Ackerman, Martin Bogren, Lorenzo Castore, Richard Park e Ander Petersen. Luca Sorbo ha intervistato Lorenzo Castore.
GU.PHO, vernacular photography, and a thousand other stories
Italy has its first international vernacular photofestival. GU.PHO will be held on 9, 10, and 11 September at the Castello di Guiglia, near Modena: a three-days of study, exhibitions, talk and publishing event on the theme of vernacular photography.
Paul Graham – Europe: America. I segni della storia
The brilliant and irreverent gaze of English photographer Paul Graham delivers to the new European and American generations a handbook of images of the themes they will face, outlining – through affinities and differences – the complex dividing line that runs along the two shores of the Western world.
Stefano De Luigi – With a smartphone on the trail of Ulysses
Twelve stops, from Troy to Ithaca, retracing the route of Ulysses: in 2012 Italian photographer Stefano De Luigi traveled for months following the wanderings by sea and land of the Homeric hero, retracing his journey through the use of the most contemporary of tools, a smartphone.
Antonio Rovaldi – Il suono del becco del picchio
Walking as an aesthetic practice: the artist gives an intimate and poetic description of a city that manifests its most secret nature, echoing ancient civilizations. Rovaldi’s photographs tell of trees and open spaces, of objects abandoned on the ground, of immense uncultivated lawns, of concrete showing the signs of time, of fragments of torn paper, tar, brick walls, metal nets, and again signs, signs everywhere.
Borders of War: what did you see that we couldn’t?
Cosa hanno visto che noi non potremmo vedere? Ogni scatto e singola parola di Caimi&Piccinni, Simone Cargnoni, Francesco Faraci, Francesco Malavolta e Alessandro Penso appare come tassello di un puzzle di inenarrabile geografia, in cui confini, limiti, barriere e distanze assumono un valore nuovo insieme a una distorsione generata da processi storici che si abbattono su milioni di persone inermi.
L’identità oltre i confini del corpo
Mari Katayama overcomes the boundary between human and post-human, that is the limit between the body we have and what happens outside of it. She uses her body as a field of experimentation.
The Archivio Parisio in Naples
The Studio Parisio, today Archivio Parisio – located in Piazza Plebiscito inside the arcade of San Francesco di Paola and in front of the Royal Palace – was the most important photographic studio in Naples in the interwar period and it still has the studio, some equipment and the space dedicated to the exhibitions.
The revolution inside the World Press Photo: the new rules of the most important international photojournalism award
The World Press Photo, the most prestigious photojournalism contest in the world, has significantly revisited their method of selecting and awarding the works they receive every year from all over the globe.
The many passions of Eric Ghysels, founder of 5 Continents Editions
A portrait of Eric Ghysels, founder and director of 5 Continents Editions, one of the most fascinating and peculiar characters of the contemporary Italian publishing scene.
The Photographic Archive of the Turin Museums Foundation – A heritage to discover
The photographic archive of the Turin Museums Foundation, which holds about four hundred thousand phototypes ranging from Nineteenth century to the present day.