Issue

Wim Wenders – Polaroid stories

Acclaimed director and also an internationally renowned photographer, between the Sixties and the Eighties, Wenders learned the art of cinema and found in the Polaroid a perfect complementary element to his research. With which he “plays” to describe places, spaces, encounters, obsessions.

Molecules. Hints of photography in Andrea Segre’s latest film

Woven with familiar and archival footage as well as images shot by the author in Venice, the film shows a sensitivity to the image close to photography. To photography as an introspective practice, as self-knowledge through the places that led the director to investigate both his father and the city.

Time and memory in Andrei Tarkovsky’s photography

Andrei A. Tarkovsky, son of the great Russian director, talks about his father’s intense relationship with Polaroid, which he used on set and in his private life. An irreplaceable travel companion, a visual notebook, a tool to freeze a fragment of reality, to stop time and project it into an infinite and absolute space.

Possible worlds

Now that virus containment restrictions are easing almost everywhere, much is said about the “world to come”. Can photography open our gaze to other worlds?

Joana Choumali – The threads of hope

The Ivorian photographer has tried not only to tell the wounds of her country but also to mend them, metaphorically, through a meticulous and careful embroidery work on the photos she has taken and then printed on canvas. “Ça va aller” is the project that won her the eight edition of the prestigious Prix Pictet.