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January 2020

TRONA: ARMPIT OF AMERICA

Berlin-based photographer Tobias Zielony has visited the small, ramshackle Californian chemistry city because it is 'possibly the worst place in America, if not the world', to quote a blog; his pictures show a small town entirely in the grasp of producers, dealers and consumers of a crystalline drug that keeps people on their toes for days and lets them age decades in the course of a mere few months. Chemists call it methamphetamine, addicts call it 'crysta
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January 2020

VELE

»Le Vele di Scampia« is a futuristic housing estate in northern Naples and a Camorra battlefield. Conceived by Francesco di Salvo in the late seventies and widely recognised for their urbanistic, »Le Vele« (The Sails) were squatted by mafia families even before completion. Today the building complex is a symbol of the Camorra’s power in the Naples region and a key centre of European drug trafficking. Matteo Garrone shot his movie »Gomorra« based on
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February 2019

PATTERN OF VOID

Leporello realized for the first solo exhibition "Pattern of void" in collaboration with Leporello
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November 2019

’68 NOW

This book is to be published fifty years after the events of ’68. The focus of the symposium, as is clear from the title, is concerned with both the discontinuities and the continuities between ’68 and our present situation, examined in a series of lectures organised by Vasyl Cherepanyn from the Visual Culture Research Center and with a contribution from tranzit.cz, in Kyiv. The decision to grapple with the legacy of 1968 came out of the
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May 2019

ABSTRACT PICTURES

Personally edited by Wolfgang tillmans, the volume "Abstract Pictures" collects for the first time the "abstract" production of the author through over 300 photographs taken in recent years.
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March 2020

THE ANONYMOUS PROJECT. THE HOUSE.

Created by Lee Shulman, The Anonymous Project collects and preserves coloured slides film from the end of the 1930s to the mid-1980s, taken by amateur from all over the world. An amazing energy emerges from these intimate archives taken from backgrounds of family, home, and house that document birthday parties, Christmas, lunches, hangovers, picnic or naps in the garden. Iintense colours and sharpness of Kodachrome capture family moments and out of the time, and
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