A book on living the countryside, starting from observation, from the desire to support, reinterpret and facilitate the natural processes of creating new ecosystems. The story of a research born from feeling, from the need to rediscover the possibility of a relationship between species in a man-made countryside devoted to production.Cosimo Terlizzi’s texts alternate with photographs of Lamia Santolina’s garden in the making and of the other spaces in whic

Roberto Boccaccino works with images and works on public space and the imaginary that surrounds it. He is often involved in photographic and editorial projects, and is in love with cartography and maps. La Fine del Mondo come Abitudine is a book of scenes that seem to call themselves and characters that run through them like digressions in a discourse. With his ironic and imagery-rich language, Boccaccino takes a fresh look at our in

Eleonora Agostini’s A Study on Waitressing is a multi-layered investigation on waitressing used as a metaphor to explore ideas of gender behaviours, societal expectations, and performing in and for the public.The work scrutinizes the fictionalized image of the ‘waitressing woman’, by exploring the stage, the backstage, and the performative aspects of this role. Agostini looks at mundane gestures and postures, commonplace objects and materials, strategies and visual codes of the servic

Chiara Indelicato, photographer and resident of Stromboli, explores in her work life on a volcanic island, where the inhabitants live with the acute awareness of a finite world, at the mercy of the elements. Beneath the ashes, between the sea and the fire, she questions how to subsist in an environment with limited resources. Pelle di Lava has its origins in two disasters in 2022: a fire ravaging the island’s vegetation, followe

The fourth Leipzig Photobook Festival is dedicated to the theme of "Intimate Framworks". On the one hand, intimate structures refer to personal relationships on various levels - or the lack thereof; on the other hand, a tight-knit community, a village, is also such a social structure.In addition, we will again be organizing panel discussions, presentations, photobook and photo exhibitions, film screenings, a stage program, portfolio reviews, projections, etc.