Spanish Summer // Gerry Johansson

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GERRY JOHANSSON Spanish Summer   website published by: MACKtext by: Matteo Cremonesi Gerry Johansson’s photographic work is distinguished by its ability to concretise a unique character in the image. His photographs, always extremely accurate and balanced, are able to evoke a look that seems to have been borrowed from a passage through some of the […]

Pascal Greco

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PASCAL GRECO Place(s)   websiteInstagram In the continuation of his 2013 project No Cliché, published by Jane & Jeremy, which aimed at conveying an unusual imagery of much-photographed Iceland, Greco had decided on January 2020 to further portray the island. But as the pandemic cut short any perspectives of travelling back, Greco set on a […]

Esther Gabrielle Kersley

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ESTHER GABRIELLE KERSLEY The Fifth Generation   websiteInstagram In 2020 over 100 phone masts were set on fire across Europe, motivated by people believing that 5G – the newest generation of mobile networks – was the cause of Covid-19. These real world acts were fuelled by online conspiracies consumed virtually across the world.Known to thrive […]

Claudia Tombini

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CLAUDIA TOMBINI MoveTo LineTo   websiteInstagram In MoveTo LineTo Claudia Tombini engages her gaze in a questioning of the landscape that oscillates between two complementary needs: the opportunity to trace and elaborate the signs of a memory linked to a place and the opportunity to organise, also through this memory, an inhabitation of the landscape […]

Shi Yan

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SHI YAN Plastic Wings   websiteInstagram Plastic wings are taken from the ancient Greek myth “Dedalus and Icarus”, which is an investigation of the self-positioning of individuals in history. For a period of time after COVID-19, I re-entered the shopping mall in Shanghai and then saw many man-made landscapes. Fragility and permanence, predicament and expectation, […]

Da Gorizia alle Ande // Paolo Gasparini

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PHROOM PAOLO GASPARINI Da Gorizia alle Ande   published by: Studio Faganeltext by: Antonino Barbaro Da Gorizia Alle Ande (De Gorizia a Los Andes) is the latest book by Paolo Gasparini, an Italian photographer who’s lived between two continents for most of his life. On one edge there is his hometown Gorizia in the northeastern […]

Somersault // Raymond Meeks

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RAYMOND MEEKS Somersault   websiteInstagram published by: MACKtext by: Matilde Manicardi Diving into the pages of Somersault feels like eavesdropping on a dialogue; a delicate, cautious interaction where every word is weighted and hard to get out. There is a daughter at the peak of that inevitable time of transition at the end of high […]

Lily Lagrange

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PHROOM LILY LAGRANGE Free Tempo Pendulum   websiteInstagram Free Tempo Pendulum is a series of images depicting rocks suspended in the air, and an ongoing reflection on temporality and the dimension of duration.  Inspired by the way that photographs warp our senses of time by showing us the past in the present, I emphasize the […]

Marilisa Cosello

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PHROOM MARILISA COSELLO   websiteinstagram interview by: Ilaria Sponda    Ilaria Sponda: Marilisa, can you tell us how you arrived at your ongoing project Try? What motivated you? What were your expectations? Marilisa Cosello: Try is quite a complex body of work. First of all, I had to visualise the body within definite spaces. I […]

Rosie Clement

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PHROOM HOME Artists Archive Projects Book Reviews Interviews Essays Moving Images Screening Room Exhibitions About Submission Newsletter   ROSIE CLEMENT Far Between   websiteInstagram Far Between explores everyday objects and scenes and their ability to become totemic when photographed, revealing hidden truths about society and identity. I was motivated to create this series after reading […]

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