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Leica Indonesia commissioned Rony Zakaria to work with the Leica Q2 Monochrom

Leica Indonesia commissioned photographer Rony Zakaria to work with the new Leica Q2 Monochrom. The black and white photographs will be on show at the Leica Gallery Jakarta until December 23rd, 2020.

The City of Flies

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 […]

“Americans Parade” exhibition by George Georgiou at QPN festival 2020 in Nantes

On October 16th opens in Nantes the 2020 edition of QPN festival in Nantes. The exhibitions will be on display till November 15th. Part of the program, George Georgiou takes part to the venue with an exhibition of his project Americans Parade. As Donald Trump was recently elected President of the United States in 2016, […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Butterflies and other creatures | part II

Dear Francesco, I think that the main difficulty when trying to picture mental illness is that in essence, it is invisible. Some might argue that you can recognise a pathology visually but that would be similar to saying you can recognise cancer through hair loss. Yes there are visual cues which are indicative but they […]

Buttterflies and other creatures

World Mental Health Day is observed on the 10th of October every year. Today. I came across the website of Scott, to see again his project “Butterflies”, which is divided into chapters, and is a long term project about mental health in different regions of the world. A project carried out with great commitment and […]

“Low Season” exhibition by Alisa Resnik at Leica Store in Paris

On October 9th 2020 opens in Paris at the Leica Store the exhibition by Alisa Resnik “Low Season”, showing her new long-term project. The show will be on display till January 10 2021. The beach is deserted,” writes Alisa Resnik. “Nothing but the rows of umbrellas wrapped in card stock, there is to see. There […]

A Thousands Lights

As the pandemic forced me to stop travel to Japan where I usually work from, I started to look closer to home. This led to resume a side project commenced a couple of years before on liscio, an Italian folk dance. Liscio originated in the region where I was born, Romagna. As a child in […]

The last day in Barcelona

2020 has been the strangest year since I moved to Barcelona back in 2012. In the previous years I was mainly working abroad or for international clients, and in 2020, for the first time, I have created a professional project that would connect me deeper to the social fabric of the city. On 20th of […]

Butterflies Chapter V

Annalisa Brambilla

Lynsey Addario

Eric Bouvet

Bryan Denton

Christopher Morris

Jehad Nga

Finbarr O’Reilly

Vanessa Winship

“Americans Parade” exhibition by George Georgiou at ICP Museum in New York

On October 31st open at the ICP Museum in New York the exhibition “American Parade” by George Georgiou. Between January and November 2016, George Georgiou photographed spectators lining the streets of big cities and small towns across the United States of America, as they watched or waited for parades. He visited fourteen different states, twenty-four […]

“Americans Parade” exhibition by George Georgiou at Gextphoto festival 2020

George Georgiou will take part to the 2020 edition of Getxophoto international photo festival in Getxo, the Basque Country, with his project “Americans Parade“. The exhibitions of the festival will be on display from September 3rd to September 27th. This festival, close to Bilbao, is committed to the use of formats, supports and unconventional spaces to […]

Portrait Work

William Kentridge Misty Copeland Orville Peck Tom Hiddleston Kacey Musgraves Steve Earle Meek Mill Justice Craig Echigoya Takayuki Valeria Luiselli Tierra Whack Joe Biden Meek Mill Dadul Namgyal James Blake Bernie Sanders

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The Passenger – Sweden with photographs by Giulia Mangione

The new issue of The Passenger, about Sweden, has been released. Prospekt has collaborated once again with Iperborea in order to curate all the photographic contents of the new issue about Sweden. Giulia Mangione has travelled across the country in order to illustrate all the articles of this new issue. The Passenger is a book-magazine that brings together long reads, investigative […]

The Passenger – International Edition

After ten issues published in Italian, The Passenger is finally available also in english. The first two volumes of the series, dedicated to Greece and Japan, are available internationally. In collaboration with Prospekt, each issue features original, commissioned photographs by an international photographer sent to the country to document the most significant stories. The photographs […]

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