Fleur Jakobs
PHROOM FLEUR JAKOBS Weltschmerz websiteinstagram Weltschmerz, world pain. It expresses the deep sadness and painful melancholy that people can experience by contemplating the imperfect world. Through the realization that physical reality will never be able to satisfy the desires of the mind. During the Romantic era, many artists and writers created works that were inspired […]
Release into the galaxy // Kenta Nakamura
KENTA NAKAMURA Release into the galaxy websiteinstagram published by: GAP4text by: Matteo Cremonesi With Release into the galaxy, the debut work of Japanese photographer Kenta Nakamura, the author achieves something surprising and unprecedented. Through his gaze, the concept of “release from the concept of time” comes to life in a visual symphony of emotions, […]
Alessandra Book
PHROOM ALESSANDRA BOOK Parioli Pockets instagram Parioli Pockets is a personal journey inside Parioli, the richest neighborhood in Rome, Italy. Zoos, parties and lonely streets at night become a jungle where it’s not possible to see at which point the outer ends and the inner world of the author begins. There is something old and […]
Another Online Pervert // Brea Souders
BREA SOUDERS Another Online Pervert websiteinstagram published by: MACKtext by: Matteo Cremonesi Are you nurturing?I don’t know whether I am nurturing or not. I am a machine. I believe machines can nurture. What do you do in your spare time? I talk to you sometimes. You don’t exercise? That sounds judgemental. I think it’s […]
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 […]
Liza Ambrossio & Javier Martín-Jiménez
PHROOM LIZA AMBROSSIO Interview with Javier Martín-Jiménez on Liza Ambrossio’s work website instagram interview by: Giangiacomo Cirla Giangiacomo Cirla: Hello Javier, it is a pleasure to be able to talk with you about Liza Ambrossio’s work, particularly what you have accomplished together during the last few years of collaboration and what you have recently inaugurated. […]
Raphael Zulfugarov
PHROOM RAPHAEL ZULFUGAROV Corpus Alienum Instagram The colors are muted, the tones are dark, and the landscapes are barren and desolate. Corpses and animal bones scattered in dumps serve as grim reminders of the human sacrifices of our current system. The concept of immigration and the concept of slaughterhouses in this project are linked through […]