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?

Matthieu Gafsou – Human+. The divorce of form and matter

A compelling, in-depth photographic investigation about Transhumanism, a movement that aims to improve man’s mental and physical performance through the use of science and technology.

Alec Soth – I know how furiously your heart is beating

With rare wisdom and sensitivity, the author makes us perceive that he has shared his own loneliness with that of the subjects portrayed, in a union of hearts that beat furiously and together.

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.

Giulia Mangione – Halfway Mountain: a journey across the happiest country in the world

As it often happens when travelling, you start looking for something and end up finding something else. And in my case at some point it became unimportant to answer the initial question, to know if the Danes were really the happiest population in the world.

Silvia Camporesi and the “Circular View” project – Authorial practices and business challenges

A project that makes waste a revolution and that, through an artistic story, has been able to trace the line of such an important challenge: benefit – in terms of energy, environment and society – from what is destined to be wasted.

Robin Hammond – “Where love is illegal”. Fighting against discrimination

It is not just a photographic project, but the demonstration that change starts from the will of each individual, that sharing is a very powerful weapon. To fight prejudice against “unconventional love”, which is still considered illegal in many countries.

Singaporean artists – The control of Man on Plants

Woong Soak Teng and Ang Song Nian have dealt, through photography and installations, with the relationship between man and plants, considering how mankind tries to control the vegetable kingdom. An urgent issue for a sustainable future.

Giovanni Chiaramonte and the fate of western cities

The cities of northern Europe – states the photographer – are distinguished by the ability to combine technological progress and environmental protection, for having adopted, as a unit of measurement, the well-being of man.

“Oh what will you do now my darling young one?” – Satellite imagery and sustainable goals

Photography for a better world: the tireless work of raising awareness, through exhibitions and publications, carried out by organizations such as the British “Hard Rain Project”. And the contribution of technology and satellite imagery.

MC2.8 – Marine plastic pollution: “Opera nostra”

Tons of plastic poured into the waters, a disaster that the two artists wanted to tell in an itinerary composed of allegorical conceptual constructions in order to generate new and necessary responsibilities.

Nature and politics. Struth’s question

A complex and fascinating work, in which the images transcend the content to search for the symbolic form which they evoke, leading the reader towards the experience of a deep and original reflection on the relationship between mankind, technology and nature.