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December 2023
Nasser Road/ Political Posters in Uganda
Nasser Road, Kampala: nicknamed the Silicon Valley of Uganda. This road is a mythical place, known for the print trade and as a centre for fraud. From fake identity cards to university diplomas, anything can be manufactured and bought here.
This publication draws attention to one of its main products: posters and calendars depicting politicians and people known as superheroes. Don't be surprised if you see pictures of Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden or
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January 2024
Woman wearing ring shields face from flash
Odette England collects found photographs showing men taking pictures of women without permission, women rejecting the camera by placing their hands over their faces, men posing with guns, and hands. For England, these images suggest a complex relationship between guns, cameras, and violence against women. There is a shared vocabulary between guns and cameras that load, aim, and shoot. In making these connections, England hopes to surface the problematic visual habits embedded in our cul
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June 2024
Sans lui
Loss, love, family: French artist Sophie Calle explores major subjects that affect our daily lives by shaking our standard patterns and beliefs. In this book, she focuses on matrimonial classified ads published in different media between 1895 and 2019. Culled by the artist and sorted by decades, the women ads looking for men and vice versa, highlight the main qualities sought-after for both genders and love tastes through different epochs. Calle draws up a sociological view of
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June 2024
Altravista
Altravista is a visionary, disturbing, intimate project. The author, Matteo Ribet, at his first publishing experience, worked from an absence: blindness. This book, however, is not a work about being blind. The author starts from an extreme condition and declines it on a universal and symbolic level. A play between the visible and the invisible. It prompts us to question ourselves about how blind we can all be, all of us, in the face of
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