Fordlândia 9 // JM Ramírez-Suassi

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Hypothesis for an absence – The Cervia Case // Alfredo Covino

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PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter   ALFREDO COVINO Hypothesis for an absence – The Cervia Case   websiteInstagram text by: Antonino Barbaro On the eve of the First Gulf War demand for cutting edge military weaponry was high. At that time the TESEO/OTOMAT, an anti-ship and coastal defence missile developed […]

The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer // Alessandra Sanguinetti

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PHROOM ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer   Instagram Publisher: MACK text by: PHROOM “You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world.” Charlotte Bronte “I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my […]

“MOLATHAM” // Scott Caruth

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PHROOM   HOME Artists Projects Interviews Book Reviews Essays Moving Images Authorials TV Exhibitions Education Submission Newsletter About   SCOTT CARUTH “MOLATHAM” website Instagram Publisher: Trolley Books text by: Antonino Barbaro For about six years starting in 2012, artist Scott Caruth has been involved with periodical non-violent activism support to the ISM (International Solidarity Movement) […]

“A1 – The Great North Road” // Paul Graham

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PHROOM   HOME Artists Projects Interviews Book Reviews Essays Moving Images Authorials TV Exhibitions Education Submission Newsletter About   PAUL GRAHAM A1 – The Great North Road Publisher: MACK text by: Matteo Cremonesi “And when he was crossing the river on the ferry, and then when he was walking up the hill, looking down at […]

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