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May 2019

IMAGES D’UN MONDE FLOTTANT

The series ยซย Images of a floating worldย ยป originates from contemplation, astonishment for what we see and reconsideration of the perceptual ambiguity that manifests itself in the landscape. Its compositions are characterized by a lack of perspective and shadows, round shapes with smooth contours, images that move inward through the surface and then sink into the illusion of the image. The landscape becomes an intangible but transparent image, mysterious and full of many echoes in oth
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November 2019

ANTHOLOGY

Mario Puzo has written a book on the Mafia. Coppola made a film. But only Letizia Battaglia has been able to tell the story and its harsh truth. Anthology is an impressive collection of the extraordinary photographic work by Letizia Battaglia between 1971 and 2016. Letizia Battaglia (Palermo, 1935) is a Sicilian photographer and photojournalist. Although his photos document a broad spectrum of Sicilian life, the body of his works is best known for his work on
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March 2019

KITCHEN PORTRAITS

Erik Klein Wolterink explores kitchens of various ethnic groups within the city of Amsterdam. For this project he mapped these kitchens in a systematic, almost maniacal way. Every shelf, every cup, every tool is photographed in the way that the original user had left it in his/her kitchen. The result is a remarkable detailed documentary about cultural habits. Linda Roodenburg wrote an essay on this topic, that is included in the book.
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March 2019

OUTSKIRTS

A hallucinatory night walk in the outskirts of Tokyo, where sleepy suburbia emerges as otherworldly dreamscape. The occasional eerie appearance of a girl evokes riveting imageries: could this be the backdrop for a nocturnal crime scene? Or are we drawn into a tale of irretrievable loss and love?
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June 2019

GOOD BOY – 0372

This project documents Sudan, the last white rhinoceros of North Africa. Sudan lived his life inside the Prague zoo, before being transferred to Kenya for reproduction and specie preservation. Sudan lives under armed protection. Giovanna Silva spent ten days in his wildlife preserve, following him from a close distance. The book, entitled Good Boy โ€“ the way the guards call the rhinoceros, this lullaby which endlessly accompanied Giovanna's days with the rhino โ€“ 0372, his breeding number, i
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June 2019

AFGHANISTAN: 0 RH-

In 2010, Giovanna Silva was asked to photograph a school in Afghanistan dedicated to Italian journalist Maria Grazia Cutuli, who was killed in a terrorist attack ten years before. Silva was housed at the Italian base in Herat, a western province of the country. She lived there for two weeks in close contact with the military personnel, moving around with them and seeing the country from their standpoint. Her photos convey the feeling of that tri
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