This edition of the GU.PHO Festival offers a reflection on the ethics and legitimacy of using other people's visual materials and invites us to critically interrogate the gaze, particularly the Western and Eurocentric one. This year's program features works that focus on the process of re-appropriation and re-signification of material, as in The Fold, by Hoda Hafshar, or on archives of images found and re-ordered according to ironic and critical taxonomie

Following the wonderful presentation of Calpestami, the latest release from Leporello Books—a sort of vending machine featuring trampled hearts or hearts waiting to be trampled, photographed by Francesca Crisafulli—we are delighted to welcome her back to the bookshop to take another look at the ground with her new book, published by Topipittori. Guarda dove metti i piedi, by Francesca Crisafulli and Giusi Quarenghi, is a photobook that invites readers to walk t

We're happy to take part to the festival's first edition with our bookshop on the road! Here's the program: Exhibition: “ Community” - asking questions about how we live together, how can we still share projects and where communal thinking and practices can lead us. With photographs by Gabriele Basilico, Jan Dirk van der Burg, Sara Abbaspour, Gaia Credentino, Lewis Hine, Ilaria di Biagio, Janet Delaney, John Sturrock, and contributing i

KAMERA SERIES is a program of screenings and exhibitions dedicated to moving images, in dialogue with the artist’s book, organized by AVARIE and Labor Neunzehn. The series, hosted in a former GDR building in Berlin, serves as a space for reflection and critical exchange on the contemporary image. Each event is accompanied by the KAMERA CAHIERS, limited-edition publications printed in letterpress, which expand a missing image or an unpublished film clip across

Altera Italia is a photographic and anthropological project that explores the ritual imagery of Southern Italy, reinterpreting its visual history and reworking the stereotypes inherited from the neorealism of the last century. Altera Italia is the result of a five-year research project, launched in 2019 and developed as a multidisciplinary initiative that intertwines photography, archival materials, video, and animation. This work reexamines the cultural identity of Southern Italy by critically re-evaluating the visual