“This is a long-term project started in 2011, when I discovered the extraordinary existences of the Albanian Sworn Virgins and I started to travel through the country looking for the last ones, the so called Burrnesh. Burrnesh is a woman who become a man following an ancient balkan tradition.  My subject was the Burrnesh and her community and my research had an anthropological approach.” Paola Favoino A path of intimate and drea

He always knew that photography is not made to stupidly record the pure present. He knows that his gaze is inhabited, in silence, by images of the past infusing his vision of the present: those of the films that impressed him, in the photographic sense of the term, in his youth of passionate cinephile. Rome is a cinema city. Tourists who visit the great monuments, guide in hand, will never understand the essence. The bes

Gustav Mesmer, the “Icarus of Lautertal”, as he came to be called, was born in the village of Altshausen, Upper Swabia, Germany, in 1903. He had to leave school early to work on farms as an indentured child laborer. “Where school miscarries, one’s whole life takes a roundabout route," he wrote later. Then he entered a Benedictine monastery: "I endured six years in Beuron Abbey until all the heavenly glory crumbled away. I fell ill, half menta

Starting from the portrait that Etienne Carjat made to Charles Baudelaire, in Paris in 1862, Mario Cresci enters the "labyrinth-Baudelaire", for which the mask revealed better than any nudity the features of what he pretended to hide. With the series "I Rivolti, Charles Baudelaire" (2013) Cresci opens the challenge: identify these masks, record them meticulously and then tear them off; to deal with the tangle of ambiguity and contradictions that obscures (or illuminates) the face of the French poet. A work bas

This book, the result of research begun in Venice in the 1960s and conducted to the present day, presents for the first time a selection of the most important projects of the great photographer. The intent is to summarize the whole arc of an artistic experience, in the field of photography and art, unique in its kind and that Cresci has always kept alive, over the years, also through writings and theoretical essays and an