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Allison Stewart

Allison Stewart is an American photographer whose work explores the construction of American identity through «its relics, rituals, and mythologies». Born in Houston, Texas, she received her MFA in Ph...

Giulia Mangione: Halfway Mountain

  Giulia Mangione is a visual artist and photographer based in Copenhagen, exploring identity, nationality and belonging. After completing an MA in Comparative Lit...

Phom meets Balter books

  Phom is carrying on its personal scouting in the world of the independent publishing. Inside the last edition of Paratissima, in collaboration with NoPhoto, on N...

Sarker Protick: What Remains

Sarker Protick is an artist born in Dacca, Bangladesh, in 1986. While studying marketing he delved into photography, and later enrolled at the South Asian Institute of Pho...

30th of October 2016 – Photography and Religion – Festival della Fotografia Etica

On Sunday the 30th of October we will be pleased to host a special evening within Festival della Fotografia Etica: among the talks of the closing day of the festival, we w...

Francesco Comello: Isle of Salvation

  Francesco Comello was born in Udine in 1963. After attending Arts School, he worked in advertising graphics and illustration. In the meanwhile he started photogr...

INCONTRI 2016

“Incontri” is back for its second year of conferences in which Phom creates discussions between photographers, internationally renowned experts and their audience on various topics regarding photo...

The First Day of Good Weather

  Vittorio Mortarotti is an Italian photographer and had his first solo show in 2008 during Photomonth in Krakow, while in the same year he was part of the Behind ...

Alvaro Deprit: Dreaming Leone

  Alvaro Deprit is a Spanish photographer who has been living in Italy since 2004. After the completion of his studies in German Philology he dedicated himself to ...

#Phomtakeover – #3 – Christian Tasso

Map of Displacement

  In 2009 the first Iraqi agency for photojournalism was founded: Metrography. Its first aim was to develop the skills of local photographers in order to have an i...

#Phomtakeover – #2 – Giulia Bianchi

This month #PhomTakeover continues with Nausicaa Giulia Bianchi! Nausicaa Giulia Bianchi is an Italian photographer. After several years spent as a project manager for a big telecommunication comp...

Rifugio – Linda Dorigo and Andrea Milluzzi

  Linda Dorigo is a photojournalist living between Italy and the Middle East, where she works for international newspapers and magazines. Rifugio is her long-term ...

#Phomtakeover – #1 – Gaia Squarci

This month Phom is kicking off #phomtakeover: a young photographer is going to take over our Instagram account for a week each month so that we can live with them for the time being, see through the...

7th January – Book presentation – iREVOLUTION BY IRENE ALISON

After presenting Simone Donati’s book “Hotel Immagine” (TerraProject collective), Phom continues its research within contemporary photography organising a venue to present "iREVOLUTION - Notes for...

Gianfranco Tripodo: Frontera Sur

Gianfranco Tripodo is a documentary photographer born in Manila and raised in Italy, who is now based in Madrid, where he works for the most important publications and inter...

MASSIMO BERRUTI

  Massimo Berruti was born in Rome in 1979. He quits studying Biology to dedicate himself to photography full-time. Working freelance since 2004, in in 2005 he enters t...

Rencontres d’Arles 2015

The 64th edition of Rencontres d’Arles opened yesterday. It’s the first edition under the “new direction” of Sam Stourdzé, who was appointed after twelve editions by François Hebe. Perhaps the fir...

Renata Ferri

© Roberta Levi[/caption] Born in Rome in 1964, she now lives in Milan. She’s a journalist and director of photography of Io Donna, the w...

INCONTRI – 2015

Phom continues to delve into the field of photography introducing Incontri (“Encounters”) - an initiative to meet internationally-renowned photographers and specialists to debate the shifts in socie...

9 June 2015 – Book presentation – Simone Donati’s Hotel Immagine

Phom presents Hotel Immagine, the first book by Simone Donati. The photographer, as a member of the collective TerraProject, will be our guest for the first of INCONTRI c...

Marco Di Lauro

Marco Di Lauro was born in Milan in 1970. Pushed by his mother, he starts practicing photography at a very early age. This passion grows stronger and stronger with time. A...

Surveillance.02 – Massimo Berruti’s “Hidden Wounds”

Massimo Berruti’s series Hidden Wounds is on display in Dubai as part of Surveillance.02, at the East Wing Gallery. Conceived as an interdisciplinary project, Surveillan...

Federico Patellani – Profession: Photo-reporter

There have been few occasions - very few indeed, as Giovanna Calvenzi recalled at the exhibition presentation at Palazzo Madama - to see Federico Patellani’s photos on dis...

Lorenzo Castore

Lorenzo Castore, born in Florence but Rome-based, moves to New York City where he starts his professional career in TV production with Bob Seligman. Back in Rome, he gra...

NICOLÓ DEGIORGIS

After studying Chinese at the University of Venice, Nicolò Degiorgis moved to Hong Kong and then to Beijing to continue his studies - and here he started taking photos. Upon completing an internsh...

Hidden Islam

One of the editorial hits of 2014 and winner of the Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award, Hidden Islam is the result of a fusion of factors: a clear photographic project, great editorial eye and a...

REFUGEE REPUBLIC

Refugee Republic is a cross-platform documentary showing everyday life in Domiz Camp, Northern Iraq. Domiz Camp receives about 58000 refugees, mainly Syrian Kurds, who gradually transformed the c...

Ernesto Bazan

Ernesto Bazan was born in Palermo in 1959. At a very young age he realizes he wants to make a living out of photography, and his determination leads him to specialize at...

STEFANO DE LUIGI

A professional photographer since 1988, Stefano De Luigi is member of Agency VII and resides in Paris. His photos are published on big international magazines, such as Ste...

Lorenza Bravetta

Lorenza Bravetta has been part of Magnum Photos for over 18 years. She has taken up a number of roles within the agency, including the position of sales manager for Europe. She has curated the realiza...

Robert Frank – “Thank You”

A short booklet on (perhaps) the least celebrated of Robert Frank’s periods, the one spanning from the 1970s onwards. In those days the author takes back his biography through the correspondence w...

Curran Hatleberg

Curran Hatleberg was born in 1982 in Washington DC and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at Colorado University and at the Yale School of Art. His most renowne...

Parade, Les Rencontres d’Arles 2014 – diary

Les Rencontres d'Arles 2014: comebacks, repetitions, variations. It was a known fact that the latest edition of Rencontres had been born under a particular star. Even p...

Giovanni Cocco

Giovanni Cocco is a freelance photographer published in a number of Italian and international magazines. A self-taught photographer, he lands to professional photography aft...

LIVING ON THE EDGE – MARCO ANSALONI

Four cities on the borders of Europe to describe what borders are when they cut through people’s stories and split their lives. Nicosia (Cyprus), Belfast (Northern Irelan...

QUESTO PAESE – FULVIO BORTOLOZZO

The perception Italians have of their home country is as fickle and multifaceted as the country itself. And yet one can still perceive its boundaries, limits and desires t...

CAPA IN COLOR – IL CATALOGO

We inaugurate the new section "In print" browsing through the beautiful "Capa in Color" catalogue. Published by the International Center of Photography and DelMonico Books / Prestel, 2014 on t...

CORTONA ON THE MOVE 2014

Having reached its forth edition, Cortona on the Move has earned a place of honour amongst the most anticipated photography festivals in Italy and Europe. Similarly to ...

LES RENCONTRES D’ARLES – 2014

As theme for the 45th edition of Rencontres d’Arles (the last one under his direction), François Hébel has chosen "Parade". Many authors are returning for their “last” appearance on the festival, ...

Francesca Leonardi

Francesca Leonardi lives in Rome and is represented by Contrasto. After her Psychology studies she approaches photography in the US, where she studies (South Florida Art C...

CAMILO JOSÉ VERGARA: TRACKING TIME

4344 West Madison St., Chicago, 1981 © Camilo José Vergara For almost 40 years Camilo José Vergara has been documenting the impoverished urban areas of the US through a meticulous documentary approac...

Fort McMoney

After months of shooting and several years of research, authors David Dufresne and Philippe Brault, previously known for Prison Valley, have created a collaborative docu-game that leads us straigh...

MOSTRA CAPA IN COLOR – NEW YORK

Capa in Color” has just drawn to the end - the first exhaustive retrospective on the work in colour by Capa that we had already highlighted back in January. We went to see it first-hand and now we ...

FEDERICA VALABREGA

We are a self-funded intiative, and we rely on the expertise each of us has gained in his/her field of specialty. Whilst presenting our interviews and articles, we are looking forward to your feedback...

Enrico Bossan

Enrico Bossan is the director of Colors magazine, and the editorial manager of Fabrica, Benetton Group's Communication Research Centre. A professional photoreporter since...

Paolo Marchetti

Paolo Marchetti is a freelance photojournalist based in Rome. He worked in the film industry for over ten years, side by side with some of the most important directors of ...

Which Way Is the Frontline From Here: The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington

Three years ago the world of photojournalism was shocked at the sudden death of photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros on the streets of Misrata. Journalist and documentarist Sebastia...

Sergio Larrain – Retrospectiva

They say Nemo propheta in patria - and perhaps that’s just the case with Sergio Larrain. The first Chilean ever to enter Magnum, he was (most notably) a photographer who merged together instinc...

LETIZIA BATTAGLIA: BREAKING THE CODE OF SILENCE

Ranging from the portrayal of “ammazzatine” (slang for "homicides") and blue-collar workers to the parties of socialites, Letizia Battaglia has been the uncompassionate eye of Palermo for over thi...

Peter Van Agtmael

Graduated from Yale University with a degree in History, Peter van Agtmael started documenting the effects of the Three Gorges Dam in China. He continued as a freelance recording the Asian Tsunami and...

Through a Lens Darkly

During the recent Sundance Film Festival, one film in particular caught our attention: Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, a film by Thomas Allen Harris, pres...

Capa in Color – ICP

Robert Capa would have turned a hundred this year. Born in Hungary as Endre Ernő Friedmann, he later moved to Berlin before leaving for the USA shortly after - him being a Jew and a communist i...

The PIGS – Carlos Spottorno

The PIGS is a project by Carlos Spottorno that combines together photography, forms of “citizen journalism”, irony and social research. The goal is to cast light on the stereotypes fashioned by E...

Fausto Podavini

Photos from the work “MiRelLa”. Fausto Podavini is a Roman photographer. In his hometown he is an extremely active member of the WSP collective. Upon completing technica...

Hollow, an interactive documentary

Hollow is an interactive documentary about the decline and progressive depopulation of rural America over the course of 60 years of American history. Merging together soundscapes, photography, dat...

Saul Leiter

Red Umbrella, 1960 © Saul Leiter Saul Leiter died on 26th November - just one week prior to his 90th birthday. Hadn’t he left Cleveland’s Talmudic school in 1946, his life would have probably been...

MICAMERA

With this interview we are inaugurating a series of talks with workers in the sector - booksellers, event and exhibition curators, picture editors and critics. We intend to widen the perspective o...

A Game of Shark and Minnow

“A Game of Shark and Minnow” is a multimedia project by the New York Times Magazine. It tells the story of Ayungin Shoal, situated 105 nautical miles off Philippines’ South China Sea in Reed Bank -...

Franco Pagetti

Franco Pagetti was born in Varese in 1950. Shifting from chemistry to fashion pho-tography, he followed a personal path that ultimately led him to the world of repor-tage by ...

Paolo Verzone

Paolo Verzone has been a photographer since the age of 18. He swings between photo-journalism and portraits. Always bearing composition in mind and staying faithful to the ...

Festival della Fotografia Etica – Lodi

Lodi Ethical Photography Festival just ran back in (24th-27th October 2013). With its 4th edition the Festival undoubtedly confirms its individuality and stands out for the clarity of intentions...

À l’abri de rien / Nowhere Safe

Samuel Bollendorff is a photographer and a filmmaker who’s made storytelling through images his main research tool. His work unveils major aspects of contemporary society in ways that outlive ...

Wu Ming 2 + Terra Project

We recommend this new project by Terra Project and Wu Ming 2 (from the narrators’ collective Wu Ming). The project is entitled 4, a journey through Italy between photography and narration curated by...

34° Premio W. Eugene Smith per la fotografia umanitaria

Every year the prestigious Eugene Smith memorial fund awards grants to photographers who stand out for a project they’ve released or are in the process of making. This year’s edition took place ...

Zoe Strauss – 10 years

The International Center of Photography in New York is dedicating an exhibition to photographer Zoe Strauss, born in Philadelphia in 1970. The exhibition offers a comprehensive retrospective of the ...

Giovanni Marrozzini

From Giovanni Marrozzini’s website: “Giovanni was first born in Fermo in 1971. The second time around he was reborn in Malta in 2001 thanks to his friend Andrea, who gives ...

Magnum Contact Sheets @ Forte di Bard

  When the volume  Magnum Contact Sheets, was first released in 2011 it was often associated with such statements as “What’s there behind the icons of photography?” or “How photographers made...