For more than two decades, Alessandra Sanguinetti has been photographing the lives of Guillermina and Belinda, two cousins living in rural Argentina, as they move through childhood and youth toward womanhood. This volume, originally published in 2010 and reissued now as the first instalment of a trilogy, chronicles the first five years of their collaboration. Sanguinetti’s images portray a childhood that is both familiar and exceptional. The farmlands of western Buenos Aires province are a p

Scalandrê – a dialectal expression of the Romagna region that means “out of season, out of phase” when referring to people, animals or plants – is the title of Marco Zanella’s first book, a three-year long project about Cotignola, a small town in Northern Italy with an agricultural tradition. It investigates what has often been defined as the end of rural civilization, straddling the world before and after the pandemic; a reality that is put to

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was not meant to be a book. For several years, it was a kind of performance: Goldin projected the images, accompanying them with music. It is no accident that the title is inspired by a song by Bertoldt Brecht. The selection and sequence change each time. Only in 1986 did Aperture fixed the sequence in a book. First published in 1986, Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual d

Committing the movements, postures and words of the people I meet to paper gives me the illusion of being close to them. I do not talk to them, I just watch and listen to them. Yet the emotions they arouse in me are real. Perhaps I am also trying to discover something about myself through them, their attitudes or their conversations. (Sitting opposite someone in the Métro, I often ask myself: "Why am I not tha

There is a very simple game that consists of repeating a word again and again until its meaning breaks down and becomes something mysterious that disorientates us and gives un the opportunity to imagine a world that has suddenly become something else. Laquilalaquilalaquilaaliqualaliqualaliqual: a city animated by a distant and alienated vision, a modern version of Gulliver's moral travels. In a deconstruction of a bird's eye view, Aliqual emerges as in a miniature that