Francesco Merlini – Akodessawa – Incontri #33 – Biblioteca Fotografica (italian – autoCC)
“He’s Come a Long Way That’s My Boy” by Francesco Merlini on D Lui
Still lifes for docile eyes
Sometimes I feel like many photographers, including me, have perhaps stopped looking for what, for better or for worse, is extraordinary and unrepeatable in our world. In contemporary photography, after some successful experiments by the great masters, the gaze has increasingly turned to the inanimate and everyday panorama, struggling for a “modern” photographic language and […]
The Passenger – Paris with photographs by Charlotte Gonzalez
The new issue of The Passenger, about Paris, has been released. Prospekt has collaborated once again with Iperborea in order to curate all the photographic contents of the new issue about Paris. Charlotte Gonzalez has worked across the city in order to illustrate all the articles of this new issue. The Passenger is a book-magazine that brings together long reads, investigative journalism, literary […]
An invisible bullet hole
It happens sometimes that you take a photograph because something has caught your attention and then, when you see the picture you’ve taken, you discover details that were invisible or maybe just too small to be seen while time was flowing and the world was moving. A new reality emerges, things that were invisible, now […]
Francesco Merlini at “Atlanti, Ritratti e altre storie” exhibition in Reggio Emilia
On Friday October 16th opens in Reggio Emilia at Palazzo del Mosto the exhibition “Atlanti, Ritratti e altre Storie” that will be on display till January 10th 2021. The exhibition brings together the personal exhibitions of the three winners of the open call launched by Fotografia Europea 2020, joined by three other projects selected by […]
He’s Come a Long Way (and it will be even longer). That’s My Boy
“Ten, nine, eight”, the electrified crowd chants in chorus. “Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, go!”. Within seconds, a myriad of colorful cars roars into action and start racing and crashing into one another. Demolition derby is a fight to the end with a simple idea behind, elimination through destruction. Beginning in the later […]
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“Akodessawa” by Francesco Merlini on Greenpeace Magazin
“Balance” exhibition by Francesco Merlini at Marsell Paradise in Milan
On February 21st opens in Milan at Marsell Paradise the solo show by Francesco Merlini, “Balance”. The exhibition that features also an interactive installation, will be on display until March 21st. I took this series of pictures last summer at Grand Marché in Lomé. A commercial and social center of Togo capital city, this chaotic […]
“Akodessawa” by Francesco Merlini on Internazionale
Francesco Merlini at “Animalia” exhibition at Garage Rotterdam
On February 1st 2020 opens in Rotterdam the collective exhibition, curated by Imke Ruigrok, “Animalia”. The exhibition featuring the project Akodessawa by Francesco Merlini among the works of several international artists, takes place at Garage Rotterdam and will be on display till April 19th. Pets; who doesn’t have or hasn’t ever had them? They bring out […]
Francesco Merlini nominated for the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2020
Francesco Merlini is one the 12 nominees of 2020 edition of the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, with his project Akodessawa. The award ceremony will take place in Paris on February 25h. In Lomé, behind a rusty iron gate, a big sandy yard with two big metal awnings protect from the scorching sun men, women and kids who, […]
Tarots
The process of discovery, the process of unveiling someone’s fortunes or misfortunes of tarots’ reading is not far from my idea of photography but there are more than one analogy with tarot cards: in almost all my bodies of work almost every picture has an evident subject, a single element, a person or an object […]
Akodessawa
In a suburb of Lomé, the capital of Togo, on the way from the city centre to the airport, once arrived in a big roundabout, if you take a small street that twists and turned among crumblings buildings and improvised workshops, you’ll find yourself in front of a rusty iron gate. On the other side, […]
“Valparaiso” exhibition by Francesco Merlini at Mt. Rokko Photo Festival in Kobe
On August 28th opens in Kobe the Mt. Rokko International Photo Festival. As part of the program, Francesco Merlini will exhibit his project Valparaiso at Sorakuen Garden. This photo festival, which started in 2013, marks the seventh edition this year. During this time, many photographers from all over the world have been invited and exhibited […]
The Flood
Tragedy in classical theory is supposed to inspire both pity and terror, but the daily horror and violence of world news often leave us struggling to produce those responses. No one can really feel on cue the emotions apparently required of us by a daily news stream of anniversaries of bombings and economies on the brink. But a […]
Francesco Merlini exhibition at Noorderlicht Photo Festival 2018 in Heerenveen
On June 23rd opens in Heerenveen, the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2018 – ‘In Vivo | The nature of nature’. Francesco Merlini will exhibit his project Valparaiso at the Museum Belvedere. The exhibitions will be on display till September 23th. For many years I have tried to narrate a valley where I was born and […]
“Le Tchad Dense” by Francesco Merlini on Black+White Photography Magazine
“Farang” exhibition by Francesco Merlini at Le247 Galerie in Paris
On Saturday June 28th opens in Paris at Le247 Galerie the solo show by Francesco Merlini, “Farang”. The exhibition, realized in collaboration with Circulation(s) Festival will be on display till March 25th. In the time span of three years I’ve taken pictures in Italy, France, Turkey, Thailand and Kosovo. I took pictures of unfamiliar places, […]
Valparaiso
Every time I look into one of the holes that tire this land, I find inside, broken, the spear of a man. Every time I look into one of the holes that tire this land, I find inside, broken, the spear of a man. Each year, the same day, the small settlements that sting the […]
“Farang” by Francesco Merlini on La Stampa
Francesco Merlini selected by the British Journal Of Photography among the “Ones To Watch 2016”
Francesco Merlini is one of the 16 photographers featured on the British Journal of Photography “Ones to Watch 2016”, the annual survey of the best emerging photographers from around the world, recommended by a global panel of experts Since 2011, BJP has dedicated an issue to identify the best emerging talent in the photographic world […]
Farang
In the time span of three years I’ve taken pictures in Italy, France, Turkey, Thailand and Kosovo. I took pictures of unfamiliar places, pictures of strangers. The flash of the camera has consecrated my epiphanies, impressing the shroud that lies on the subjects whose truth I’ve discarded. These images are relics of the invisible. Every […]
Le Tchad Dense
N’Djamena, Mongo, Mondou, Gorè, Zama, the refugee camps of Dosseye and Danamadja. It’s hot everywhere, always, without any truce. People indulge air’s thickness with slow movements. Life is slow, expectations are low. Chad is one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world. Since 1996 power lies firmly in the hands of President […]