Andrea Pertoldeo, Antonello Frongia, Il roseto – Esercizi sui piccoli luoghi, 2022

An ordinary place, a piece of ordinary nature at the edge of the inhabited world. Nothing but whiteness of snow melting in the sun, on a bright day. Slender shrubs, twisted branches of wild roses reaching out into the clear air of a late winter. A sequence of thirty-eight photographs, thirty-eight precision exercises on looking and attention: silent, step-by-step reflections on space, light, the colors of the day. A six-part essay, moving backward from these images to meditate on the gravitas of photography in the modest existence of small places.