Next New York

I am grateful to be part of this very interesting book by Mona El Khafif and Seth McDowell. Here is a selection of images from the pandemic that have been included in the book for a photographic essay.

Closing, Quarantining, Delivering, Re-opening, Protesting.

Next New York
(Next Cities Series)

Over the last 500 years, a range of innovative, responsive, and pragmatic civic actions have helped to generate, define, and maintain New York City’s global significance.

From early on much of these actions were responses to population density and the accompanying challenges for health and well-being. Approaching its next growth cycle, New York is again amid important urban transformations that demand new urban and architectural models that allow for an open city to balance gentrification, and to address a lack of public spaces, social infrastructure, and affordable housing. These challenges and their architectural and urban implications are the focus of Next New York. The book captures the city’s current momentum through the lens of three important urban actions: sharing, connecting, and partnering.

Through 10 essays from scholars and practitioners working on pressing urban issues, a photographic essay portraying New York during COVID-19, and more than 35 design projects from graduate studios at the Universityof Virginia’s School of Architecture, Next New York reflects, comments, and speculates on New York City’s capacity to bring about new conceptions of city-making and collective cohabitation through architecture.

BRAILLE Alphabet

BRAILLE Alphabet

Chewing gum on sidewalk B (a) 2021 - 2022 Brooklyn, NY

Shooting Film

I am grateful that the project Therapy is a case study in the book Shooting Film by Ben Hawkins & Liza Kanaeva-Hunsicker (Hachette 2022).

Film photography is back with a bang, and whether you're returning to the genre after switching to digital, or you've just discovered this amazing medium, there's never been a more compelling argument for going analogue with your photography.

In a world where we are bombarded with visual imagery, making your photos stand out from the crowd is getting harder by the day, but film will give you that edge - and let you discover a whole new way of shooting in the process. 
In this in-depth and inspirational guide, photography journalist Ben Hawkins and pro photographer Liza Kanaeva-Hunsicker reveal the techniques, tips and secrets for success when shooting film. 

Arte Laguna Prize

Arte Laguna Prize 15

Grateful to be part of the 120 artists that exhibit at the Arsenale of Venice from October 2 to October 24, 2021.

Hair (a) Getting grey.
Collection of hair from different cuts

2013 - 2017
Rome / Cairo / New York
35mm film B/W

ARSENALE DI VENEZIA

FROM OCTOBER 2ND TO OCTOBER 24TH
30122 VENICE, METROPOLITAN CITY OF VENICE, ITALY

 

I am a collector.

Ever since I can remember, I have been collecting everything, particularly my own things as a sort of memorial. Saving every single object is for me the first step of a possible collection: notebooks, cans, stuffed animals, receipts, batteries, or parts of myself like teeth, hair, and nails, just to mention some of them.

To keep and catalog objects has always given me pleasure. It started with me collecting memories and things that I was emotionally attached to, and it developed into an obsession to pile up ordinary objects in series. The only complication I have is the space. Collecting requires a lot of physical and mental space, which led me to find ways to let things go.

I have realized that, to be able to throw anything away, I first need to celebrate the detachment by taking pictures of it. The composition is the result of the entire process, the image is the purpose to achieve. By then, I convince myself that what I have collected will somehow survive, especially using films as they don't leave me empty-handed.

The project Therapy is photography used as a remedy to an obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

Marco Anelli: Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramović

I am honored to have contributed to this beautiful book.

Editor and Book Design Tommaso Sacconi

This new edition of Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramović by Marco Anelli includes unreleased archival photographs of the performance, behind-the-scene moments of Marina Abramović and a new selection of portraits in a renewed book design.

© Damiani 2021
© Photographs, Marco Anelli
© Texts: Marina Abramović; Klaus Biesenbach; Chrissie Iles

Following the great success of the first edition of 'Portraits in the presence of Marina Abramović', Marco Anelli reissues a new edition of this acclaimed publication. This remastered edition includes never before seen archival photographs of the behind-the-scene moments of the artist in preparation for the performance.

Alongside her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Marina Abramović staged a performance of three months in the central atrium. Inside a delineated space, visitors from the public were invited to sit in a chair opposite to her and exchange eye contact. The performance drew out a visceral emotional response, captured by Anelli from a distance. The sitters were frequent museum visitors, as well as renown artists, actors and musicians, including Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Björk, Sharon Stone, James Franco, and others. The result was an international sensation around the work and the photographs, which were published by the museum on a daily basis.

To realize this project, Anelli had also spent over 716 hours in the museum, meticulously making portraits of Abramović, each individual sitting across from her, and noting the duration of each exchange. These photographs function as the primary representation of this seminal work of performance in the 21st century, and chronicle an unforgettable moment in the history of art.

Confini Aperti

The project Closed is in the book Confini Aperti, published by the TWM Factory.

The pandemic, the sudden shutdown of the stores. The signs of an economic crisis, the loss of jobs and the first barricades, which then became a new urban landscape. A changing landscape that has been able to collect and tell a unique historical moment and a New York never seen before.

Thank you to TWM magazine and Ginevra Corso

Tohoku

I am honored that the project Tohoku has been published in the volume Chromantic by Exhibit Around / dotART association

On March 11th 2011, Japan stops. The great tsunami that hit Tōhoku coast is an indelible memory. Since then, in these places, many volunteers have plumbed and removed mountains of debris. The many objects found have been cleaned and cataloged in hopes they will return one day to their owners. Other than that, geometries and patterns of interior residential floors have gradually re-emerged.

These images are 'scans' of what remain of Ōtsuchi, a little town of the Tohoku coast, one year after the great tsunami of 2011.
Many thanks to the Caritas Japan, to the professor Ikuo Kobayashi and to Exhibit Around / dotART cultural association.

Booooooom - Small Victories

I am honored that a photo of mine has been included in the book Small Victories published by Booooooom.
A collection of images celebrating the beauty of everyday life, featuring the work of 50 photographers.

Shots Magazine

A photo of mine has been included in the SHOTS Magazine N.148

SHOTS Magazine is an independent, reader-supported journal of eclectic fine art photography now in its 34th year of publication. SHOTS is known for its democratic presentation of work by a variety of photographers from around the world and reaches a wide, international audience that includes not only emerging and established photographers, but also educators, galleries, museums, collectors and other fine art photography enthusiasts.

Delivery Bikers

Delivery Bikers

PERIMETRO Magazine

Plastic bags as hand protection against cold and rain, bright cubic backpacks and bikes' frames wrapped in tape.
Since New York City was hit by the effects of Covid-19, delivery bikers have been working non-stop. In a moment when few could leave their apartments, they have become the front line of the pandemic, exposed to the disease almost as much as healthcare workers.
Proud to work in such a difficult time and helping in a crucial way, delivery bikers are the reason many businesses are still surviving.
From the middle of March 2020, I started to portray them at work.

In una New York provata dagli effetti del Covid-19, tra i pochi a lavorare senza tregua ci sono i delivery bikers.
Impossibile fare a meno di loro, soprattutto in un momento in cui pochi vogliono o possono uscire di casa. In città li si vede sfrecciare ovunque e a tutte le ore.

A metà marzo ho iniziato a ritrarre i delivery in maniera seriale, rigorosamente a lavoro. Annoto nome, nazionalità e un contatto, così da poter inviare loro la foto. Con alcuni di loro rimango in contatto.
Molti sono giovanissimi e fanno questo lavoro da poco, spesso per aiutare le attività di parenti o amici. Altri sono professionisti. Li si riconosce dalle bici e dalle protezioni contro freddo e pioggia: infinite buste di plastica e guantoni foderati di scotch intorno al manubrio.
È anche grazie al loro lavoro se NY mantiene un’apparente tranquillità.

Portinerie Romane - Zine

The project Portinerie Romane become a limited edition Zine of 200 copies.

Ampie vetrine, vecchie scrivanie, piccole feritoie e architetture concepite come acquari umani. Catalogo di portinerie d'autore e non, delle palazzine romane.

Spacious windows, antiquated desks, compact passageways and architecture designed to resemble an aquarium.

Portinerie Romane is an exploration of a lesser-known aspect of roman architecture, highlighting the artistry as well as the ingenuity that went into the design of these structures that play an important role in contemporary daily life.

Conceived as a photographic catalog of the most remarkable roman gatehouses, Portinerie Romane is a project by Tommaso Sacconi and Giulia Carioti, curated by Andrea Bentivegna.

In January 2019, after several years in the making, the work has been presented at Centro Studi Giorgio Muratore, Rome (IT)

Portinerie Romane - Exhibition

The project Portinerie Romane become will exhibit at Centro Studi Giorgio Muratore on January 10th 2019.

Appuntamento al Centro Studi Giorgio Muratore per raccontare l’insolita storia delle portinerie romane nel progetto di Giulia Carioti e Tommaso Sacconi.
Una narrazione diversa della città e delle sue palazzine viste attraverso lo sguardo dei loro portieri, personaggi e testimoni fondamentali della storia e persino della cinematografia. Con il contributo di Miriam Ciamarone e Domenico Calabrese e a cura di Andrea Bentivegna.

Ampie vetrine, vecchie scrivanie, piccole feritoie e architetture concepite come acquari umani. Catalogo di portinerie d'autore e non, delle palazzine romane.

Spacious windows, antiquated desks, compact passageways and architecture designed to resemble an aquarium.

Portinerie Romane is an exploration of a lesser-known aspect of roman architecture, highlighting the artistry as well as the ingenuity that went into the design of these structures that play an important role in contemporary daily life.

Conceived as a photographic catalog of the most remarkable roman gatehouses, Portinerie Romane is a project by Tommaso Sacconi and Giulia Carioti, curated by Andrea Bentivegna.

Hamburger Eyes N.34

I am excited to announce that a selection of my photos, taken in New York City between the 2016 and the 2018 has been published by Hamburger Eyes Magazine N.34.

Hamburger Eyes is a black and white photography magazine. Publishing since 2001, Hamburger Eyes has developed it’s own signature brand of photography and provided an outlet for both upcoming and established photographers worldwide.

Hamburger Eyes has produced over 200 titles of zines, magazines, and books alongside countless exhibitions, commissions, and collaborations of all shapes and sizes

Thank you to Ray Potes, founder and editor of the Magazine.

Zine

I am exited to announce that I released a self published book, a limited edition of 33 signed copies with a selection of analog photos of New York City (2018).