The Shape of Our Eyes, Other Things I Wouldn’t Know
Davide Sartori
23x29 cm
144 pages
Soft cover with dusk jacket
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Text by Sophie Leyendecker
Published in July 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-68-1
Witty #113
Pre-order here︎︎
Shipment expected in second end of July
Davide Sartori’s research in ‘The shape of our eyes, other things
I wouldn‘t know’ explores the relationship between the photographer and his father. Set between their respective workplaces, the photography studio and the airport, the project unfolds through a series of collaborative attempts to build a connection.
Combining constructed images with documentary observations, the publication traces this process, presenting photographs as both evidence of a relationship and tools through which that relationship is renegotiated.
Through themes of labour, masculinity, vulnerability, and intergenerational trauma, Sartori reflects on inherited roles and societal expectations. At once personal and universal, the work offers a moving meditation on presence, absence, and the possibility of rewriting familial narratives.
Where Deer Fly and Stones Cry
Erli Grünzweil
23x30 cm
154 pages
Soft cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Text by Ines Frieda Försterling, Erli Grünzweil
Published in July 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-67-4
Witty #112
36€
Order here︎︎
In a realm of layered temporalities, WHERE DEER FLY AND STONES CRY weaves an autofictional journey. Through reinterpretation and transformation, it confronts rigid binary, religious, and patriarchal structures, drawing from a legend of a shape-shifting stone and a place called ‘Paradise’, where surface beauty masks deeper tensions.
Through photographs oscillating between staging and documentation, drawings by Erli Grünzweil’s grandfather and a collaborative text written together with Ines Frieda Försterling, a world emerges in which nothing can be taken for granted. From a queer perspective, the project challenges the normative values, truths, and inherited narratives that have been passed down through generations.
Der Sturm
Paolo Ventura
24x32 cm
32 pages
Soft cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in June 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-68-1
Witty #111
18€
Order here︎︎
Der Sturm stages the theatrical and enigmatic tale of an avant-garde painter in 1920s Berlin, caught in a love triangle with two women.
For the first time in his career, Paolo Ventura creates an entire story completely in black and white, evoking the atmosphere of vintage cinema from the Weimar Republic. The works come to life through the artist’s unique method: meticulously crafted miniature sets and handmade marionettes, which are photographed and then enhanced with touches of paint. A unique microcosm where photographic fiction meets the materiality of sculpture and drawing.
The Crack
Li Hui
24x32 cm
80 pages
Hard cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in May 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-65-0
Witty #110
36€
Order here︎︎
Shipping expected on middle May
The Crack into Sleep Is the Crack into Dreaming explores the fragile boundary between waking life and the dream world. Through minimalist imagery, I place subjects within the everyday, focusing on subtle details and quiet emotions that suggest something hidden beneath the surface.
These cracks act as portals to the subconscious, where intimacy and distance exist in tension.
Some images unfold through double exposure, layering fragments of memory and time, like brief flashes surfacing from within. The work
traces a visual journey through the in-between, where past and present softly blur.
The Dice Man
Máté Bartha
20x30 cm
52 pages
Unbound with elastic
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in April 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-64-3
Witty #109
The publication was produced in limited edition of 100 copies on the occasion of the exhibition “Metamorphosis” by FUTURES at EXPOSED, Torino Foto Festival, as a working fragment of the ongoing project titled The Dice Man.
11€
Order here︎︎
The Dice Man is not simply an urban inquiry, but an act of existential reclamation. At the heart of Máté Bartha’s research lies the desire to return to the abandoned family home in the center of Budapest, to look once more through the large windows overlooking the Danube. That view—a silent city swallowed by a blinding light—is the fixed point in a life marked by early and absolute loss.
At the age of seven, Bartha lost his father; a year later, his mother died in a car accident while carrying his birthday presents. Since then, Budapest ceased to be just a city and became a "mythology" of interrupted paths, a labyrinth of "what ifs" haunting the artist's dreams.
After years spent searching for a sacred order behind the chaos or a divine explanation for the injustice of fate, Bartha chose to embrace uncertainty. In 2023, he embarked on a pilgrimage through Budapest’s 23 districts, entrusting his path to an algorithm of chance:
A pair of eight-sided dice determined direction and distance, transforming the metropolis into an oracle.
Guided by recorded dreams, old photographs, and his own nightmares, the artist walked to shake "the curse of loss" from his shoulders. In this game of passages, wandering becomes a way to inhabit the present—searching among empty alleys and spiral staircases not just for the ghosts of his parents, but for a new form of security to offer the future.
