A Study on Waitressing
Eleonora Agostini
168 Pages
23x28 cm
Soft cover
Editing Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Massimiliano Pace
Text by Joanna Walsh
Published in November 2026
Second edition
ISBN 979-12-80177-79-7
Witty Books #124
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Eleonora Agostini's A Study on Waitressing is a multi-layered investigation on waitressing used as a metaphor to explore ideas of gender behaviours, societal expectations, and performing in and for the public.
The work scrutinizes the fictionalized image of the ‘waitressing woman’, by exploring the stage, the backstage, and the performative aspects of this role.
Agostini looks at mundane gestures and postures, commonplace objects and materials, strategies and visual codes of the service industry context to reflect upon power and gender dynamics, labour, representation, and the gaze.
Central to the project is the figure of Agostini’s mother, whose postures, movements, and behaviours serve as a focal point. This figure becomes a vehicle to explore the visible and hidden aspects of identity, emphasizing the social roles performed in daily interactions. The restaurant setting acts as a microcosm where the body mediates between observer and observed, highlighting the theatricality inherent in everyday life.
A Study on Waitressing delves into the relationship between labour and personal life, between vulnerability and strength, between the public and private, between the observer and the observed, and between a mother and daughter.
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Aperture - Paris Photo book award 2025 - Winner
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Murk
Nico Krijno
24x30 cm
184pages
Soft cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in October 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-76-6
Witty #123
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Nico Krijno is losing his sight.
This book came out of that fact, but it is not a document of loss, nor an elegy for vision. It is an
examination of looking itself, and what happens when seeing can no longer be taken for granted.
Krijno has never treated photography as a reliable window onto the world. His images are built, painted, cut, copied, obscured, rearranged and photographed again. A photograph becomes
an object. An object becomes an image. Something familiar becomes strange, then strangely familiar again.
We are living through a period of constant uncertainty and upheaval. Both nature and culture seem to be showing signs of disruption. Have we perhaps over-adapted to a world that cannot give us what we are looking for?
There is a growing need for images and symbols that remind us of the beauty and connections that still exist, however fractured things might appear.
MURK comes out of this uncertainty.
There is no straight line through the book, no single narrative. Images echo one another, return in altered forms and contradict themselves. The process is intuitive and physical. Krijno builds,
destroys and rebuilds, allowing things to go wrong. An image is pushed until it begins to lose its certainty.
A photograph has always carried the promise of evidence. But it can only ever give us a fragment. The rest is filled in by memory, imagination and expectation.
Krijno is interested in that gap between seeing something and knowing what it is. He describes image-making as a private, physical practice, closer to prayer than production. A way of paying attention, of trying to make sense of a world that cannot always be made sense of. There are no answers here. Only questions about photography, perception, the times we are living through, and what might still be possible.
The images are not trying to explain the world. They are trying to open it up.
Moroccan Fossil Trade
Max Miechowski
24x30 cm
56 pages
Soft cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in October 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-78-0
Witty #122
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Photographs by Max Miechowski, captured in 2025 across the Tafilalt and Anti-Atlas regions of southeastern Morocco, document a remarkable intersection of ancient history and contemporary livelihood. In these remote desert landscapes, remnants of an ancient seabed are painstakingly excavated by hand, transforming prehistoric marine life into globally traded commodities. This visual essay explores the intricate journey of fossils, from raw geological extraction by local miners to their preparation by artisans for markets around the world.
Ana M. El Tesoro
Raquel Bravo Iglesias
24x31 cm
176 pages
Soft cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in October 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-72-8
Witty #121
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Ana M. El Tesoro begins with a domestic archive found in the attic of Ana M., a resident of Llaranes, a workers’ settlement built in the 1950s around the state-owned steel company ENSIDESA in Avilés, Asturias, on the northern coast of Spain. Conceived under Francoism as a model of industrial and social order, the neighbourhood embodied an ideal of progress that extended beyond the factory into everyday life. Rooted in the artist’s personal relationship with both Ana M. and the territory, the project explores what remains outside this official representation. Bringing photographs, objects and domestic traces into dialogue with institutional and industrial records, the research constructs a counter-archive whose associative logic is shaped by Ana M.’s experience of schizophrenia, with ambivalence sustaining the coexistence of contradictory meanings. As the industrial landscape undergoes demolition and transformation, other histories emerge: the documented but unmarked mass graves of Francoist repression, the domestic labour that sustained industrial production, and the violence exerted on women’s bodies.
Light Exercises for the Spirit
Krisztián Éder
24x30 cm
112 pages
Hard cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in September 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-70-4
Witty #120
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Light Exercises for the Spirit brings together photographs made between 2016 and 2025.
Rather than being conceived as a single project, the work developed gradually through a number of distinct sequences made over nearly a decade.
Moving between family photographs, portraits, landscapes and everyday observations, the book unfolds through association rather than chronology. Images echo across sequences, places, years and emotional states: domestic interiors sit alongside quiet landscapes, moments of intimacy dissolve into absence, and ordinary gestures acquire new significance through their proximity to one another.
The book grew out of a need to process the events that shaped these years, and the ways they altered my understanding of time, intimacy and home. Approached with quiet curiosity, the photographs became a way of remaining with these experiences without reducing them to a single meaning.
Neither memoir nor documentary, Light Exercises for the Spirit unfolds through the fragmented logic of memory, where sorrow and hope, closeness and distance, coexist rather than resolve.
