The Absence // Attilio Solzi
PHROOM ATTILIO SOLZI The Absence Instagram publisher: 89Bookstext by: Ilaria Sponda “A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence”.Susan Sontag Undoubtedly venturing from the path first trodden by Roland Barthes among others, Susan Sontag pierces the heart of the nature of photographs, for them to be tracks of the that-has-been, evidence […]
But Still, It Turns // Paul Graham
PHROOM PAUL GRAHAM But Still, It Turns website publisher: MACKtext by: Giacomo Infantino “Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of a great distances, and starlight.The name of the story will be Time, But you must not pronounce its name. Tell me […]
White Night // Feng Li
PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions About Submission Newsletter FENG LI White Night Instagram publisher: Jiazazhi text by: Ilaria Sponda Feng Li’s “White Night” is a fragmentary story that gathers a collection of photographies taken between 2005 and 2015. Like a flâneur in the streets of the Chinese city of Chengdu, Li wanders […]
Tableaux 1970 – 1984 // Urs Lüthi
PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter URS LÜTHI Tableaux 1970 – 1984 publisher: Imprimerie Sitol – M. Guibert, 1984 text by: Ilaria Sponda Urs Lüthi is a Swiss artist who has authored a series of self-portraits since the early 1970s. Indeed, following the path of Duchamp and Cahun, he is […]
Fordlândia 9 // JM Ramírez-Suassi
PHROOM JM RAMÍREZ-SUASSI Fordlandia 9 websiteInstagram publisher: Now Photobookstext by: Ilaria Sponda “Fordlândia 9” is JM Ramírez – Suassi’s first photographic book based on a true story although studded by metaphorical and fictional characteristics. Indeed, Fordlândia is real, as many could acknowledge, and it is now a district in the city of Aveiro, in […]
House of Card // Thomas Demand
PHROOM THOMAS DEMAND House of Card publisher: MACKtext by: Matteo Cremonesi Among the many elements that characterize and define Thomas Demand’s incredible work it is certainly possible to indicate a particular attention to architecture.Its representation and simulation, for this author, is as much the subject of an important observation as of a reworking and […]
How to Destroy Everything // Marco Marzocchi
PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter MARCO MARZOCCHI How to Destroy Everything website Instagram publisher: Studio Faganel text by: Antonino Barbaro Since the Sumerian have invented writing, the process of recording information with text is also a process of forgetting. By writing down what has to be remembered and […]
Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards 2021
PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter KRASZNA-KRAUSZ PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK AWARDS 2021 Maria Kapajeva – Dream is Wonderful,Yet Unclear Sunil Gupta – Sunil Gupta: From Here To Eternity websiteInstagram The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has announced the winners of the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Photography and Moving Image Book Awards. The winning titles […]
Omantandangole // Aapo Huhta
PHROOM AAPO HUHTA Omantandangole websiteInstagram publisher: Kehrer Verlagtext by: Giacomo Infantino “Omatandangole” is a photographic book by Aapo Huhta, a Finnish photographer born in 1985, who found fertile ground in his creation in the well-known desert of Namibia between 2016 and 2018. This desert land, barren for millions of years, is considered one of […]
Terminus // John Divola
PHROOM JOHN DIVOLA Terminus websiteInstagram publisher: MACKtext by: Ilaria Sponda John Divola’s Terminus is a realistic yet sci-fi documentation of an abandoned air force housing complex positioned in the South-West of the Mojave Desert (California). Decommissioned in December 1992, post-Cold War, the houses lacked the amenities and the size nowadays considered standard in the […]