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Being a participant of the Self Portrait Experience Workshop by Cristina Nuñez

My psychotherapist recently died. When I realized that I wouldn’t be able to talk to him ever again, I was attending a self-portrait workshop run by the photographer Cristina Nuñez. Pushed by curiosity about her method more than by a real will to work on myself, I decided to participate. I wanted to compare her […]

A true carnival of the origins

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OnI7tiAQGQ8 In February 2020, as every year, I drove to Schignano, a village located in the mountains on the border between Italy and Switzerland, to continue my long-term project dedicated to the ancient alpine carnival that takes place there. I started this work in 2010 and I had no idea that my 10-year anniversary edition […]

“Telling Stories, Breaking Stereotypes” talk by Laura Liverani at ICU University Tokyo

On January 29th 2021 Laura Liverani will talk about gender, age and race in her almost decade-long photography work in Japan, focusing on lesser known communities and groups: from the Ainu, the indigenous population of Hokkaido, to female sumo wrestlers, senior cheerleaders, and elderly models. The talk will be followed by the screening of documentary Ainu Neno […]

The Passenger – Rome with photographs by Andrea Boccalini

The new issue of The Passenger, about Rome, has been released. Prospekt has collaborated once again with Iperborea in order to curate all the photographic contents of the new issue. Andrea Boccalini 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 reportage […]

“Life is But a Dream” by Margherita Pescetti and Pietro Masturzo wins the Best Documentary at 26th Visioni Italiane Festival

Life is But a Dream, the documentary film realized by Pietro Masturzo and Margherita Pescetti was awarded yesterday night for “Best Documentary” at the twenty-sixth edition of the “Visioni Italiane” festival. The jury expressed itself unanimously with the following motivation: “For recounting the tragedy of the eternal Israeli-Palestinian conflict, relying on an Orthodox Jewish settler […]

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 […]

Natalia. Quarantine with the abuser

Back in March I kept reading about domestic violence being on the rise, internationally, as a consequence of the forced quarantine. After several attempts to contact women who were suffering from domestic abuse I talked to Natalia. https://vimeo.com/506041526 Trauma expert Judith Lewis Herman in an interview with The New York Times compared the oppression of […]

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 […]

Brazil Ravaged by “the Small Flu”

Rows of freshly dug graves at the Vila Formosa Cemetery, one of the largest in Latin America, and the site where many of the city’s victims of COVID-19 are buried. The gravediggers are working hard to keep up with the death toll that continues to rise. New areas are taken into use and old graves […]

REJECT [ON]COVERED:

Woman on Street, St. Petersburg, 2008. While constructing a book’s narrative, the reasons to include or reject certain pictures are more often intuitive than logical. This particular picture did not make the final cut. Later, as I was designing a literary book, “Accompaniments” by Mary Di Lucia, this image intuitively found its way onto the […]

“China Goes Urban” exhibition at Mao in Torino

CHINA GOES URBAN, The City to Come”, an exhibition, created by Prospekt and Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with the Tsinghua University of Beijing, will open at the MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin on October 15, 2020 and will be on display till February May 5th 2021.THE EXHIBITION HAS BEEN POSTPONED TILL JUNE 13TH 2021 […]

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