Giugno 2020
Nicolò Degiorgis, photographer and visual artist
The Long 19th Century Digested Vol. I and II
Focused on Art, photography, publishing, the main objects of his research are social phenomena at large, boarder regions, minority comminities, migrational movements, racial intollerance, islamophobia, nationalism, institutional critique, among others. Long term projects stemming out of personal experiences are a constant in his work. He doesn’t know about Aby Warburg's work until this call.
The Long 19th Century Digested
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Giugno 2020
Massimiliano Tommaso Rezza, artist
Un certo Salvatore M., published by Pneumatica, 2019
Massimiliano Tommaso Rezza objects of research are visual language in photography and social photographic practice.
The book Un certo Salvatore M. presents a collection of portraits of an Italian State employee. Over the years and many times a year, Salvatore M. asked his wife to take his portrait, and, as it appears, the purpose of this portraiture is to allow t
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Giugno 2020
Janine Sack, publisher and designer
Chinese Weave, by Regine Steenbock, e-published by Eeclectic, printed version published by Textem Verlag, Hamburg, 2020
Chinese Weave is a photography book by Regine Steenbock, an artist and fashion designer who travels and engages in research. We follow her gaze on a country that in the so-called West is permanently present as a myth, a politically dubious player, and an economic threat. At the same time, China seems unfamiliar and difficult
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Giugno 2020
Valentina Vannicola, photographer
Eravamo terraferma, 2018
Eravamo terraferma revolves around a small community of people living on an Adriatic Sea island, which belonged to the former Yugoslavia, and is today part of Croatia. The island is part of a now-dismissed area owned by Star Oil, a company flourished during Tito’s rule which was abandoned soon after his death and at the outbreak of war in the Balkans in the 1990s. The Star Oil’ s worker
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Giugno 2020
Origini edizioni, publisher
Valentino Barachini, SEMI, photobook published by Origini edizioni, 2019
Origini edizioni is focused on photography, poetry/literature and painting. Each book from Origini is an organic work: every element has a reason to exist in its own ecosystem. They consider their works like living organisms: each is made of organs, tissues, memories, bits of emotions, members and this complexity is the character of the object-organism, as a person. They are not afraid
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Giugno 2020
Maria Kapajeva, artist
You can call him another man, published by Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2018
Maria Kapajeva work is focused on photography, video, print making, installations, textile. Focusing on the politics of images projected on all of us without our consent, she often looks at those in movies, advertising, media and she questions how they form our identities and what is left unspoken about it. Kapajeva uses a multidisciplinary approach in her practice
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