What do we do when we hate? The question, given the circumstances of our time, is pressing: we are enveloped in societies of enmity and rejection, bent on the systematic removal of otherness. The exaltation of the ego encloses life within ever narrower circuits, drawing boundaries and distances whose inhuman qualities we seem obliged to omit. Hate stirs within us. Hate agitates us. Hostility, revulsion, intolerance: we unconsciously respond to binary patterns that generate irr

Rvm, is a documentary-photography magazine, and other narratives (stories, illustration, insights) and, with the Redo Issue, it is renewed from the ground up: it becomes independent with the establishment of the RVM Hub publishing house, a new editorial staff, new collaborations, new themes and new graphics - created by the Art Director Francesca Pignataro. Starting from Red, we decided to investigate the contemporary using a series of colors as mediums - almost as if they were photographic fi

Photography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so-called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paper—the raw materials of analogue image production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—photography now relies, in the age of the smartphone, on rare earths and metals like coltan, cobalt, and europium. The exhibition focuses on the history of key raw materials utilized in photography and establishes a connection between the his

Between 1897 and 1903 James Reuel Smith rode around Manhattan and the Bronx on his bicycle with a camera and a tripod and documented the springs and wells that were disappearing as the city grew and as Croton water reached more residents. He left money in his will for the New-York Historical Society to publish a book of the work which they did in 1938. Stanley revisited every site in the book on foot or by bicycle bet

Klara and the Bomb is a photographical and historical work that charts connecting threads between the invention of modern computers, the history of nuclear weapons and, in particular, the narratives of the women involved. While computing technology is ubiquitous today, its militaristic history and colonial connections continue to be underplayed or obscured: the modern computer originates in military-funded nuclear weapons research and development that took place during and after the Second World War. Many of