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Giulia Mangione: Halfway Mountain
signals | 31 May 2018Giulia Mangione is a visual artist and photographer based in Copenhagen, exploring identity, nationality and belonging. After completing an MA in Comparative Lit...
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Sarker Protick: What Remains
signals | 5 April 2017Sarker 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...
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Francesco Comello: Isle of Salvation
signals | 12 September 2016Francesco Comello was born in Udine in 1963. After attending Arts School, he worked in advertising graphics and illustration. In the meanwhile he started photogr...
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The First Day of Good Weather
signals | 14 June 2016Vittorio 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 ...
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Alvaro Deprit: Dreaming Leone
signals | 26 April 2016Alvaro 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 ...
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Map of Displacement
signals | 14 March 2016In 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...
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Rifugio – Linda Dorigo and Andrea Milluzzi
signals | 1 February 2016Linda Dorigo is a photojournalist living between Italy and the Middle East, where she works for international newspapers and magazines. Rifugio is her long-term ...
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Gianfranco Tripodo: Frontera Sur
signals | 3 December 2015Gianfranco 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...
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Rencontres d’Arles 2015
signals | 7 July 2015The 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...
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Surveillance.02 – Massimo Berruti’s “Hidden Wounds”
signals | 28 April 2015Massimo 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...
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Federico Patellani – Profession: Photo-reporter
signals | 23 April 2015There 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...
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REFUGEE REPUBLIC
signals | 9 February 2015Refugee 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...
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Parade, Les Rencontres d’Arles 2014 – diary
signals | 17 September 2014Les 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...
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CORTONA ON THE MOVE 2014
signals | 16 July 2014Having 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 ...
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LES RENCONTRES D’ARLES – 2014
signals | 7 July 2014As 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, ...
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CAMILO JOSÉ VERGARA: TRACKING TIME
signals | 30 June 20144344 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...
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Fort McMoney
signals | 17 June 2014After 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...
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MOSTRA CAPA IN COLOR – NEW YORK
signals | 23 May 2014Capa 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 ...
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Which Way Is the Frontline From Here: The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington
signals | 26 March 2014Three 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...
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Sergio Larrain – Retrospectiva
signals | 28 February 2014They 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...
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LETIZIA BATTAGLIA: BREAKING THE CODE OF SILENCE
signals | 27 February 2014Ranging 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...
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Through a Lens Darkly
signals | 31 January 2014During 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...
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Capa in Color – ICP
signals | 28 January 2014Robert 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...
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The PIGS – Carlos Spottorno
signals | 25 January 2014The 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...
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Hollow, an interactive documentary
signals | 7 December 2013Hollow 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...
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Saul Leiter
signals | 28 November 2013Red 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...
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A Game of Shark and Minnow
signals | 20 November 2013“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 -...
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Festival della Fotografia Etica – Lodi
signals | 30 October 2013Lodi 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...
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À l’abri de rien / Nowhere Safe
signals | 29 October 2013Samuel 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 ...
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Wu Ming 2 + Terra Project
signals | 29 October 2013We 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...
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34° Premio W. Eugene Smith per la fotografia umanitaria
signals | 27 October 2013Every 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 ...
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Zoe Strauss – 10 years
signals | 27 October 2013The 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 ...
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Magnum Contact Sheets @ Forte di Bard
signals | 27 October 2013When 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...
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