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Flattened in Time and Space // Angelo Vignali

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ANGELO VIGNALI Flattened in Time and Space   websiteInstagram published by: Witty Bookswords by: Matteo Cremonesi Angelo Vignali’s Flattened in Time and Space is a work in which the proximity to the biographical datum characterises the author’s projectuality to the point of producing the peculiarities of the same gestures that construct the work. Re-elaborating the […]

MIDORI // The Camellia Girl

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MIDORI, The Camellia Girl Can an innocent little girl survive in a world of monsters?    text by: Federica Zotti It’s 1984 and Suehiro Maruo, then 28 years old and established in the world of ero-guro manga (a social-artistic movement mixing eroticism and macabre, bizarre, and sometimes nonsense elements) as one of its leading exponents, […]

L’Inferno

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PHROOM L’InfernoFrancesco Bertolini, Giuseppe De Liguoro, Adolfo Padovan (Italy, 1911)   text by: Matteo Cremonesi The first decades of the last century saw Italian cinema develop with great rapidity an industry which in many ways has been able to distinguish itself for its strong linguistic autonomy. If the blockbuster “Cabiria” (1914) represents the uncontested climax […]

Nika Sandler

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NIKA SANDLER The World of Hedonia   website On New Year’s Eve, I made a wish to immerse myself forever in the sensations that I experienced while taking tranquilizers. I wanted to fall into a sweet sleep and not face reality anymore. In an effort to forget myself, I was trapped in a depressive hedonia, […]

Davide Maria Palusa

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PHROOM DAVIDE  MARIA PALUSA   websiteinstagram interview by: Michela Coslovich    Michela Coslovich: Your photography is linked to the concepts of space, architecture and landscape. What do these three fundamental elements mean in your visual search? Davide Maria Palusa: Spaces, architectures and landscapes are the tools that allow me to represent a concept. For me, […]

North Line // Fyodor Telkov and Sergey Poteryaev

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FYODOR TELKOV and SERGEY POTERYAEV  North Line   Fyodor TelkovwebsiteInstagram Sergey PoteryaevwebsiteInstagram published by: Snowfox Works   North Line presents a collection of images through which Fyodor Telkov and Sergey Poteryaev document their travels in the regions of northern Russia to chronicle the lives of the native Mansi, Selkup, Nenets and Hanty people. Recounting the […]

Padanistan // Tomaso Clavarino

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TOMASO CLAVARINO Padanistan   websiteinstagram published by: studiofaganeltext by: Giacomo Infantino Padanistan is the latest book by Tomaso Clavarino, a photographer born in 1986 and the author of other books and zines that I have had the pleasure of browsing through, such as, for example, the earlier Ballads of Woods and Wounds from 2020, and […]

Julie Poly

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JULIE POLY Ukrzaliznytsia   websiteInstagram Selected from PhMuseum Days→ info Thanks to the experience of working as a train conductor, Julie Poly captures the very essence of travelling in Ukrainian trains in her project Ukrzaliznytsia, which is also the name of the state railway company. Employing both photographs of train decorations and staged images of […]

Munirah Almehri

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MUNIRAH ALMEHRI Umbai   websiteInstagram Selected from PhMuseum Days→ info In Kuwaiti slang the word Umbai expresses a statement of surprise at the absurd and unexpected. It is reserved only for the tongues of Kuwaiti women so much that if a man simply utters the word, they are accused of being gay. The word represents […]

Ana Vallejo

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ANA VALLEJO Neuromantic websiteInstagram Selected from PhMuseum Days→ info “My name is Ana and I am a love addict” – says artist Ana Vallejo while trapped in her apartment with anxieties when COVID-19 hit New York City in 2020. This started a personal investigation to dissect and find the source of her addiction. She merged […]

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