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 […]
Mitsutoshi Hanaga
MITSUTOSHI HANAGA Collective of Monks Praying to Kill Owners of Corporation Responsible for Environmental Pollutions Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info In 1970, the photojournalist Mitsutoshi Hanaga documented the actions of a group of Buddhist monks who toured Japan casting death spells against the owners of the country’s most polluting companies. They called themselves Jusatsu Kitō […]
Mattia Balsamini
MATTIA BALSAMINI Protege Noctem websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info In the 1990s, Europe and Russia tried to create a network of satellites that would reflect sunlight and illuminate the Earth permanently. Fortunately this fantasy of total lighting did not prosper, but we have arrived at a similar situation by other means, as completely […]
Jules Spinatsch
JULES SPINATSCH Heisenberg’s Offside websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info Heisenberg’s Offside is a panoramic image taken with a web cam during the qualifying match between Switzerland and France for the 2005 World Cup. Positioned right over the centre of the pitch, under the roof of the stadium, the camera was programmed to take […]
Matthias Ley
MATTHIAS LEY Empty Promises websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info In cities we have made it normal for there to be practically no empty spaces. Everywhere we look, our field of vision is filled with stimuli that demand our attention, most of it occupied by advertising. Advertisements are an element of the urban landscape […]
Giuseppe De Mattia – Dress Code
GIUSEPPE DE MATTIA Dress Code @ LAVAPIU website Instagram text by: Celeste translation by: Tommaso Iorio The concentration of circumference The main character of a novel by Tiziano Scarpa from few years ago, Il brevetto del geco, is a thirty-nine-year-old artist from Milan, determined to put an end to a career that never really took […]
Thermodynamics of a Singularity
LORENZO BACCI – FLAVIO MORINIELLO Thermodynamics of a singularity websiteInstagram text by: Matteo Cremonesi Thermodynamics of a singularity (ToS) is an attempt to recount the Italy of lockdown and social distancing during the difficult course of the Pandemic: covid-19. Carrying out a wide-ranging research that urgently traverses the bureaucratic postures assumed in the […]
M’hammed Kilito
M’HAMMED KILITO Before It’s Gone WebsiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info With Before It’s Gone M’hammed Kilito looks at the death of the oases in southeastern Morocco. Oases are biodiversity refuges and natural barriers against the desert, and they provide essential microclimates that make life possible in the most arid regions of the planet. […]
Maider Jiménez
MAIDER JIMÉNEZ Aquí ninguén fala diso Instagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info The obsession with filling our lives with objectives, reaching goals and meeting expectations, our own and others, personal and professional, affects all of us but especially the youngest, who are trapped in the permanent demands of competition. Maider Jiménez addresses the uncertainty caused […]
Bruno José Silva
PHROOM BRUNO JOSÉ SILVA website instagram interview by: Ilaria Sponda Ilaria Sponda: You assert you treat images as mechanisms, tools, concepts. How so? Bruno José Silva: The work I have been developing seeks practical research on the concept of image in our contemporary era. In recent years, I have been looking for different approaches and […]