La Teoria del Vuoto
Tommaso Bonaventura
Alessandro Imbriaco
Fabio Severo
208 Pages
24x32 cm
Soft cover
Design by Mauro Bubbico and Roberto Lenza
Texts by Alessandro Carrer, Clemente Miccichè, Valerio Aiuti, Rossana Gnasso and Rocco Sciarrone
With the support of Fondazione Garuzzo
Published in October 2024
ISBN 979-12-80177-36-0
35€
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With support of Ministero della Cultura – Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea. Winner of the public contest “Strategia Fotografia”.
La Teoria del Vuoto (The Void Theory) originates from a photograph depicting a scene of everyday life in Buccinasco, a suburb near Milan. Years ago, in that quiet rural setting, some weapons were found, hidden or abandoned by unknown people. This discovery gave rise to a web of episodes, places, and people that spread across Italy, reaching as far south as Platì, a small town near Reggio Calabria whose history has been intertwined with the one of Buccinasco for decades. The photograph stems from Corpi di Reato. Un’archeologia visiva dei fenomeni mafiosi nell’Italia contemporanea, a photographic project by Bonaventura, Imbriaco, and Severo, presented for the first time in 2012. Corpi di Reato explored the Italian landscape in search of the traces left by the mafia, grappling with the invisibility of this widespread and ever-changing presence, which has transitioned from violent massacres to silent infiltration. La Teoria del Vuoto picks up this investigation, taking it in new directions where the central question becomes how photography can continue to narrate and document today. The void serves as a metaphor for the expansion methods of organized crime: void can be understood as the permeability of territories unprepared for the criminal threat, the ease with which clans establish themselves; a void is also what they carve out in the social fabric, eroding legality. Lastly, the void also reflects the gap between the surface image and the deeper reality of places like Buccinasco
and Platì: the former appears to be an orderly town in Northern Italy, while the latter is a hidden stronghold in the Aspromonte mountains.
Acedia
Louise Desnos
112 pages
23x29 cm
Hard cover
Editing and design by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published October 2024
ISBN: 979-12-80177-44-5
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Acédia: a state of pain and affliction linked to a lack of motivation, weariness and disenchantment.
“Laziness has become a common thread in my practice. For me, it is first and foremost a means of production, since the time freed from responsibilities and remunerative work is the time I invest freely. So it’s by focusing on random elements that are both significant and insignificant, but which find no other link than a kind of everyday chance, that I’ve built up this collection of images. My mind wanders, gets lost, focuses on an element, gives it importance and then resumes its movement.”
Il Giardino
Fabrizio Albertini
128 pages
23x28 cm
Soft cover
Editing by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Federico Barbon
Text by Violetta Bellocchio
published in collaboration with Studio X-01
Published October 2024
ISBN: 979-12-80177-43-8
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“I went back to my garden.
I like to photograph it, I need it.
Something is changed,
A small movement, to the surface.
I haven’t moved too much after all.”
“Il Giardino” continues the journey that has started with “Radici”.
As in his previous chapter, the narrative is built by following the urgency of a “need to accumulate”: collecting images that surround and testify the author’s daily life.
If from one side the language remains faithful to the mechanics of Radici, on the other it introduces new themes. Themes that concern the landscape, the distance between the camera and the subject, and the horizons that derive from it. A new territory, not only intimate, but above all geographical.
Lastly: as for Radici, “Il Giardino” is a series that is born as self-analysis, as a moment for the Self, as a catharsis, and as for any other human analysis it is not a theorem and there are no solutions.
It’s just a story.
It’s just a story.
Der Engel
Iacopo Pasqui
96 pages
17x23 cm
Hard cover
Editing and design by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Bartłomiej Talaga
Text by Krzysztof Candrowicz
Coordination by Franek Ammer
Co-publishers by 19 Rivers, Fotofestiwal
Published June 2024
ISBN: 979-12-80177-39-1
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We can never fully know a person, a place, or a story, however, if I were an angel, then I could listen to every single person, I could get to know you – at long last – I could understand you all; understand everything. Perhaps though, it’s in the mystery of in-comprehension, and of not knowing, where the magnitude of life resides. That incom- prehension that renders both the world and humans unpredictable, illogical, and full of vital, and at times explosive, energy. Maybe we don’t need to know the true inten- tion and nature of a beautiful gesture when something is just beautiful and that’s it. In fact, often it would be better not to seek out answers or explanations because this is what life is: sometimes authentic, sometimes fake; sated or miserable, overf lowing or empty. Wenders’ angels knew this all too well, so well they decided to become human.
They wanted to touch life with their own hands, to savour every tiny detail of what, before, was just the product of a sight that was real but sterile, like their own vision in black and white. The first time that I arrived in Łódź, it felt like I was in East Berlin, and, like the angels, in almost four years of brief but intense travels, I have collected the traces of what touched me. I was seeking photographs that were words; light, sparse, evanescent, evocative. Snapshots that illustrated not only my Polish present but also the present – and in a certain sense the past – of a place that made me feel like an angel, a place that made me feel at home.
IRL Corps
Vincent Ferrané
60 pages
22x32 cm
Soft cover / Singer binding
Design by Tommaso Parrillo
Text by Jos Auzende
in collaboration with Cnap & Destin Sensible gallery
Published May 2024
ISBN: 979-12-80177-40-7
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In the era of social networks, insatiable kings of our connected lives, encouraging self-disclosure and selfie culture, Vincent Ferrané's photographic series "IRL Corps " presents the individualized and embodied body in everyday reality ("In Real Life") where it takes on a political dimension by challenging society through the dissemination of its image on digital media. Rather than a grand narrative, the image producer engages in conversation with nine people with vibrant sensitivities who bare themselves, revealing their openness to the world as much as an initiation into being: between universality and specificity, Aimé, David, Hosanna, Manouchka, Moon, Niamh, Nicky, Violette, and Zoé have turned their bodies into screens and their digital networks into modes of writing and exploration, sometimes serving as a Safe Place, an Icon, or a Trojan Horse. Their utopian seclusion celebrates differences, intimacy, non-conformity, and dreams of large-scale inclusion in a relationship of immediacy. By reversing the roles of the perceiving subject and the perceived world, the experience of "Corps IRL" invites us to see through them, according to them. Through a questionnaire echoing their images the interpreters of " IRL Corps " reveal certain aspects of their personality, their tastes and personal preferences to describe themselves succinctly.
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