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

The exhibition to be touched from afar brings together a small selection of works from the project Geröll with a large-format image taken from the series Behind Time—displayed outside the bookstore on the black wall of the former L’Angolo di Franca bar.  Behind Time is also the new volume in the series Archiv Peter Piller– Materialien, subtitled On the potential of futile endeavours, published by Nieves in collaboration with Leporello Bo

We are delighted to be participating—as every year—to Fotografia Europea as part of the [Parentesi] Book Fair, alongside many other publishers and booksellers, from Friday, May 1st, through Sunday, May 3rd. In addition to our usual selection of books, on Saturday the 2nd, from 12 to 1 pm, we are pleased to host Giorgio Di Noto’s Hidden Collectionsbook signing, published by Quodlibet. At 4.30 pm, Chiara will be in conversation with Francesco Villaâ

On the occasion of his workshop on April 18 and 19 with Azahara Lozano Dorado, Roma: The Documentary Condition: Archival Practices and Contemporary Photography, curated by Door Academy, we are pleased to host Felipe Romero Beltrán on April 22 for a presentation of his projects Dialect and Bravo, which will focus on comparing exhibition and editorial strategies. If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please email doitoriginalorrenounce@gmail.com Felipe Ro

After fleeing from a city that tired his very soul out, it is in the heart of the woods that Guido can find himself again: there he deeply listens to the nearby creatures, and learns how to let go of the weight of his darkest years, marked by the shadowy spiral of the relationship with his father. While among the trees, shards of memories resurface from his childhood, when his father, lost in his il