June 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

June 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

June 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

June 2020

Federico Clavarino, artist

Medusa (working title) This is an ongoing research project, and one that just started, hence its rather chaotic structure. Broadly speaking, it is looking at the gesture of photography as embodied vision. It is about photography as an entanglement of subjects, objects and apparatuses as mutually defining entities. Its core is the specific subject-object gap opened by the gesture of machine-aided observation. It is about mechanisms of recognition and mis-recognition inaugurat

June 2020

Emanuele Trevi, writer

My project is my own home My project is very personal, since it is my own home. Here I experiment an on-going project inspired by Warburg’s Library and Mnemosyne BilderAtlas: I keep a well-thought-out collection of art catalogues and books, ethnological and history of religions texts and very many art reproductions (postcards) and maps. I began my home image’s display in 2013 when I moved into an apartment with wooden doors; on

June 2020

Joachim Schmid, artist

Other People’s Photographs, 96 print-on-demand books, self-published, 2008-2011 Other People’s Photographs  is a series of 96 different books that explore patterns and themes in what amateur photographers are posting every day to sites such as Flickr. On which fields of knowledge are you focused? Visual culture. Could you identify some constants in your work? Pattern recognition. How did you find out about