Josef Koudelka, Radici, 2021

An elegant selection of some of Josef Koudelka’s most significant panoramic photographs in search of the roots of our history among the most representative and important archaeological sites in the Mediterranean.

The black-and-white shots were taken by the Czech photographer among Syria, Greece Turkey, Lebanon, Cyprus (North and South), Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Albania, Croatia and of course Italy.

The timeless, soulful and fascinating panoramas, characterized by unstable, unexpected and ambivalent perspectives, well represent Koudelka’s own visual vocabulary and stylistic signature, who, eschewing the simple illustration and documentation of ruins, chooses to give breath to what remains of the vestiges of ancient Mediterranean civilizations, representing them in an eternal tension between what is visible and what remains hidden, between enigma and evidence.