“Mazu,”
Lin Wei-Lun
10x15 cm
46 pages
Hand made binding
Design by Louis Montes
Published in Novemebr 2025
Winner of Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2024
ISBN 979-12-80177-49-0
Witty #106
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Mazu, the sea goddess who arrived in Taiwan from the Chinese mainland three centuries ago, is seen today not only as the protector of the island’s fishermen and sailors, but as the guardian deity of Taiwan as a whole. Over a period of geopolitical
instability in the region, heightened by U.S. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei in 2022, Wei-Lun made this series ofpostcards to ask for Mazu’s protection.
The photographs printed on the postcards document Wei-Lun’s personal journey and his investigation into the impact of Pelosi’svisit on himself and other Taiwanese people around him. In line with the Taoist tradition of burning offerings to gods, Wei-Lun attached stamps made of gold joss paper to the postcards and set themalight, thus delivering them to Mazu.
As Mazu is an important religious figure in both China and Taiwan, Chinese state media has been using this shared connection as an opportunity for propaganda since the late 1990s, emphasising common cultural roots in order to promote the idea of unity between China and the Taiwanese people.
The Grey Catalogue
Barbara Rossi
16x23 cm
48 pages
Leporello on hard cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Ilaria Miotto
Text by Costanza Nizzi
Published in Novemebr 2025
ISBN 979-12-80177-53-7
Witty #105
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The Grey Catalogue is a photographic project by Barbara Rossi that explores the architecture of Shanghai's neighborhoods in the process of demolition, focusing on the old Lilong residential areas and traditional Shikumen architecture. Through a visual investigation of the grey shades that characterize these spaces, Rossi documents the erosion of collective memory and the rapid urbanization that is wiping out vital traces of the city's history.
The project unfolds as an act of archiving, an attempt to freeze time and preserve the identity of these areas before they are erased by the unchecked growth of the metropolis. Grey, chosen as the central color, becomes a symbol of melancholy, absence, and indifference toward historical memory. The photographs are accompanied by descriptive notes that tell the story and architectural features of the buildings, turning archiving into an act of remembrance and reflection on contemporary life.
With The Grey Catalogue, Rossi does more than just document; she raises broader questions about the meaning of preservation, loss, and the relationship between the past and future of modern cities.
Something Was Missing Within
Elliott Kreyenberg
23x28 cm
104 pages
Soft cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Ilaria Miotto
Text by Dirk Gieselmann
Published in Novemebr 2025
ISBN 979-12-80177-60-5
Witty #104
Winner of the APhF:24 Dummy Award feat. Witty Books within the Athens Photo Festival Book Program curated by Sylvia Sachini and with the support of Future Format.
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“Patriarch demands of men to become and remain emotional cripples.“
- bell hooks
Something Was Missing Within explores the emotional detachment at the heart of traditional stereotypes of masculinity. From an early age, boys are taught to be strong - to suppress vulnerability and sensitivity. Over time, this denial of emotional depth becomes a missing part within. It seems that the test of manhood lies in the willingness to accept this loss and remain silent about it. The work reflects on how this absence shapes identity, intimacy, and connection of men.
Are you nobody, Too?
Silvia Bigi
13x18 cm
320 pages
Soft cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Ilaria Miotto
Texts by Elio Grazioli and Adam Broomberg
Published in Novemebr 2025
ISBN 979-12-80177-61-2
Witty #103
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Are you nobody, too? originates from a found photograph — a blurred, elusive portrait in imperfect grain. It is the only existing image of Irma, the artist’s great-aunt, who throughout her life was kept away — due to her mental condition — from public view as well as from any official family genealogy. Starting from this denied identity, Are you nobody, too? sheds light on the taboos that have long surrounded mental distress, particularly in relation to women, who throughout history have often been the target of practices of domestication and subjugation against which the mind has rebelled. Through one of the first deepfake apps, Irma finally finds her voice. The stills taken from the video, presented as a conceptual flipbook — whose frames reveal, through Irma’s lips, a phrase by Zelda Fitzgerald — in their fixedness, consecrate the act by fulfilling their primary function as testimony, revealing artistic practice as a political and radical act of constructing and redefining the real. The hypertext is composed of verses and fragments from poems and novels by female writers and poets affected by psychic disorders — words that unravel from their original narratives to reweave themselves into a new fabric, processed by an
algorithm that randomly reshuffles the sentences. Irma’s body thus becomes a site of redemption, an anti-body that hosts a multitude, defying all forms of normativity, regulation, management, and control.
Are you nobody, too? breaks the boundary between historical and speculative reconstruction, proposing new possibilities of meaning and immanence. It invites the reader to take part in this process, disrupting every attempt to normalize what is elusive, complex, and diverse, enacting a dispersion of the self that becomes a generative force
through its alliance with technology.
She could see herself in the darkness
Phoebe Kiely
17x23 cm
168 pages
Soft cover with dusk jacket
Design by Ilaria Miotto
Art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Published in Novemebr 2025
ISBN 979-12-80177-57-5
Witty #102
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She could see herself in the darkness is a book holding a compilation of prints made between 2020 - 2024.
The project began as an exploration of queer intimacy between two people. It soon evolved into something beyond a single story. The photographs of people still remain, however they are interlaced with tight, close up images, which break up the human bodies and allow the sequence to not be dominated by skin alone.This book marks the completion of the project, a constellation of fragments held together in the dark.
