Manyi Chan
PHROOM MANYI CHAN Touch website instagram Touch is a long-term ongoing project that delves into a subconscious exploration of sexual fantasy and violence from the perspective of my cultural background as an East Asian female, through expanding the contextual meaning of food and body in photographic practice. Food is a carrier of sensory memory. The process of […]
Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape // Stephen Shore
STEPHEN SHORE Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape websiteinstagram published by: MACKtext by: Matteo Cremonesi In the iconic works of Stephen Shore, America emerges in a new light, the reading that the author concretises through the images challenges the conventions of the collective imagination that permeates the perception of this nation in order […]
Enrico Smerilli
PHROOM ENRICO SMERILLI website instagram In Enrico Smerilli’s authorial practice, the close-up is an element that returns insistently and runs through the different photographic series made by the author. The close-up shot of the subject—the exclusion from the composition of other elements that could connote or contextualize it—turns the images into pure surface, a skin […]
American Polychronic // Roe Ethridge
ROE ETHRIDGE American Polychronic websiteinstagram published by: MACKtext by: Federica Zotti Roe Ethridge’s American Polychronic is an extensive catalogue spanning the artist’s entire career, presenting works from 2000 to 2021. Ethridge’s approach to photography is an exercise in audacity and experimentation, a relentless search for new ways of seeing and interpreting the world. Through […]
Nika Sandler
PHROOM NIKA SANDLER My Nonhuman Friends websiteinstagram Since birth, I have always been surrounded by cats. The first being who became interested in me after I was discharged from the hospital was a cat. He stood on the bed and stared at me. He had never seen a human child before. Fortunately, he liked […]
Andrea Casagrande
ANDREA CASAGRANDE Nigredo websiteInstagram I don’t look like anybody.No one has my eyes, my lips, my hair. I know nothing about genetics except what I learned at school. No one to tell: “I talk like you”, “I scratch my nose nervously like you do”. I feel lonely.I feel alone. I have friends, parents […]
Cure // Kiyoshi Kurosawa
PHROOM KIYOSHI KUROSAWA Cure text by: Alessandra Cianetti Three murders in two months. The only thing they have in common is an X-shaped incision on each victim’s neck. No motive. The most insoluble mystery. And yet, precisely because of the unknown, Kurosawa’s feature film “Cure” works excellently. Like Detective Takabe, the protagonist, we […]
Ilaria Miotto
PHROOM ILARIA MIOTTO instagram interview by: Ilaria Sponda Ilaria Sponda: How has your research evolved during your first years of practice? Ilaria Miotto: My research stems from the exploration of dimensions related to the landscape, and the creation of maps whose cardinal points are the elements at the origin of memory. The evolution of my […]
Tatiana López
TATIANA LÓPEZ Entre sueños la selva hace el eco de la canción de la anaconda ardiente websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info The unbridled productivity that we apply to our lives has spread to our relationship with the environment. Half a century has passed since the publication of the report The Limits to Growth—commissioned […]
Photographerhal
PHOTOGRAPHERHAL Flesh Love All Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info Couples and families vacuum-packed in front of their houses and gardens, which are also wrapped in plastic. Under the pseudonym Photographerhal, the Japanese photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi presents a disturbing series of portraits about anxiety for a perfect life. Today the culture of productivity is also translated […]