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EN PRÉSENCE DE L'ABSENCE
Éditions Bessard
500 copies - limited edition
Hard Cover 114 pages
Black and white duotone offset printing
14,5 X 21 cm
Planches Contact / Photo4Food - residence grant winner
There are connections between all forms of life, points of intersection that allow us to perceive the synchrony and diachrony between the animal, human and plant worlds. There are time lines which, while following cycles of different lengths, come together in the “here and now”, in the dimension of the present. "Umana Natura" explores the archaic territory of Umbria in search of the intimate connections among life forms in a unique natural and environmental microcosm, where the sense of time and history seem to have its deepest roots.
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FASTIDIOSA
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500 copies
Soft Cover 228 pages - 16.2 x 21.6 cm
Mixed art papers, double fold-out, Swiss binding, silver-printed dust jacket, 234 images and illustrations, booklet addendum.
An unfiltered, personal and intense account of Xylella Fastidiosa, the plant epidemic that threatens Europe. "Fastidiosa" is the result of photographing the plight of local farmers and environmental devastation in Puglia, southern Italy, over a period of six years. The work has a multi-layered nature, including analogue b&w photographs with portraiture and landscapes, plus colour images with scientific evidences, documentation and archival pictures. A text booklet features all the uncut interviews with the farmers and the agronomists.
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GÜLE GÜLE
André Frère éditions
Soft Cover 128 pages - 21 X 30 cm
Foreword: Brad Feuerhelm
As dummy-book: special mention Kassel dummy-book award, shortlist LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD, Photolux. As trade book: Shortlist Arles Author Book Award 2020, Prix Nadar 2020.
Güle Güle is a personal project focused on the city of Istanbul, third chapter of the "cities in transition" series. Photographs derive from multiple personal relationships to penetrate the complexity of the city with its contrasting microcosms. Gentrification, the marginalization of the poorer classes, the increasing discrimination of homosexuality, the massive migratory influx of Syrian refugees and the Kurdish community issue are just some of the realities behind the subjects portrayed.
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RHOME
MASA/FUAM editions
500 copies - trade book
Hard Cover 148 pages
Black and white duotone pictures
Munken Pure paper
17,5 X 23 cm
Foreword: David Campany
Recipient of the FUAM dummy book award
Selection Photo España Best Photo Book of the Year
RHOME is a journey through the multiple microcosms of Rome, our city of adoption. Far from a stereotyped and tourist-friendly image, the book focuses on the most intimate and surprising side of the city. People, places and situations, forming a dense connective tissue, a mycelium of existences.
Rhome is the second chapter of the "Cities Series" (after Naples, with the book "Forcella")
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UMANA NATURA
Laboratorio Di Cultura Fotografica "Il Forno"
200 copies - exhibition catalogue
Soft Cover 62 pages
Black and white duotone offset printing
Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum 140g paper
16,5 X 23,5 cm
Foreword: Ilaria Schiaffini
There are connections between all forms of life, points of intersection that allow us to perceive the synchrony and diachrony between the animal, human and plant worlds. There are time lines which, while following cycles of different lengths, come together in the “here and now”, in the dimension of the present. "Umana Natura" explores the archaic territory of Umbria in search of the intimate connections among life forms in a unique natural and environmental microcosm, where the sense of time and history seem to have its deepest roots.
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THE BURNING PLAIN
ZInetonic
Book-zine
Soft Cover Singer machine sewn - 64 pages
Black and white duotone offset printing Grafiche L'Artiere
14 X 20 cm
The Phlegraean Fields, one of the most densely inhabited places in the world, are a super-volcano. The area extends across the entire bay of Pozzuoli, Naples, and consists of a 13km-wide cauldron-like depression with 24 craters. Half a million people learnt to coexist with the "volcano" and the constant eruptive activity of gas or mud, with earthquakes and with the bradyseism, a phenomenon causing the soil to slowly swell and deflate for several meters. Life on the Phlegraean Fields is a mixture of anxiety, hope and resignation, in a unique blend of emotional and geographic landscape, where the connections of humans with the nature and God is under the spell of the Volcano.
R HOME | ORIGINAL BOOK DUMMY
8 signed copies with Touring Club vintage guide inserts
Soft Cover, 158 pages | hand sewn
Black and white high quality Xerox pictures + A3 color poster
Fabriano smooth grain paper | 15 X 20,5 cm
Recipient of the FUAM dummy book award
RHOME is a journey through the multiple microcosms of Rome, our city of adoption. Far from a stereotyped and tourist-friendly image, the book focuses on the most intimate and surprising side of the city. People, places and situations, forming a dense connective tissue, a mycelium of existences.
Rhome is the second chapter of the "Cities Series" (after Naples, with the book "Forcella")
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FORCELLA
Witty Kiwi Books
Limited edition of 200 trade book
Hand numbered | soft-cover | 132 pages
Black and white pictures
16 X 24 cm
A personal, intimate account of the oldest neighbourhoods of Naples, places maintaining a timeless identity, frozen in a undefined era that holds the breath from postwar to the Eighties. Documenting a human primordial soup, contradictory, dangerous, strong, beautiful and repulsive at the same time. A unique microcosms, a world apart capable to trap you forever or to set you free.
Places where poverty is the queen and Camorra the king.
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GALEAZZO
Interzone Books
Nardini, Caimi & Piccinni
86 Pages | size 15 x 23 cm | soft cover
150gsm paper | Color and black & white
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A book from an exhibition, to discover an unconventional artist and unique human being, Galeazzo Nardini, passed in 2016, who shook the art scene in the '70s. A dialogue of references between new photographs and original works, through the authorial approach of Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni, photographing his home, left intact, as if he were still there. Through his places, people, found pictures and contact sheets, plus an incredible artistic production, from painting canvases up to scraps of paper with notes, ideas and considerations. A book poised between past and future, between documentation and interpretation of a lifetime.
FORCELLA | PHOTOGRAPHER'S CUT
Self published dummy book
Limited edition of 30
hand made and hand numbered
soft-cover Xerox printed | raw surface acid free paper
90 pages 16 X 24 cm
An handmade spiral-bind booklet featuring a different layout and photographs sequence from the trade book "Forcella". Several unseen pictures have been included in the photographer's selection. Inspired by the first dummy book of the project.
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SAME TENSE
Witty Kiwi Books
Limited edition of 50 Indigo print trade book
hand numbered
Cover on Splendorgel extra white 230gr
112 pages
15 cm X 21 cm
"Same Tense" is the first instalment of a long term personal project of photographers Caimi and Piccinni. It consists of a selection of raw and unfiltered analogue black and white photographs documenting daily life, nature, sex, strangers, family members or friends. It is entirely made with point and shoot cameras with an instinctive non-rational approach.
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VULNERABILITY
Self published dummy book
Edition of 30 numbered copies
Spiral-bound softcover | 114 pages
More than 100 b/w hi-quality Xerox printed photographs
Fabriano white 160g paper | 150 x 210 mm
A personal account of the city of Tokyo. From depicting the daily life in the parks and in the street, to the night life in Shinjuku, bringing the intimacy of people in search of their vital space. Hints of a nation suffering from an economic and social stagnation, scared by what the future might bring, struck by environmental catastrophes.
A city surprisingly fragile and vulnerable.
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DAILY BREAD
T&G Publishing
72 b&w photographs duotone printed
112 p. Hardcover trade book
€ 40 + shipping
These pictures represent a rite of passage through my own existence. Sex, food, nature, animals, things known and unknown which make me feel sometimes comfortable or unsafe, I always sense an excess of energy, a spill that makes everything unstable, pulsating, restless. A palpitation, that could be subtle or violent, which I want to photograph. There are no dots to connect. I am no more giving a sense to things.
I hold to hear their murmur, instead.
CONTACTS
Contact sheets booklet
Softcover
34 contact sheet reproductions
170 b/w 35x24mm photographs
40 x 280 mm
limited edition of 30
Hand made
A handpicked selection from the contact sheets of the work "Forcella" was scanned and printed on hi-quality semi matte paper. Each page of the booklet contains one strip of contacts.
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MONO vol 2
Gomma Books
various artists
256 pages
size 24 x 30 cm
Cloth cover with silver hotstamped titles
Premium art paper 170gsm - Fedrigoni Garda.
Duotone printing.
Sewn binding.
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