JEAN-MARC CAIMI | VALENTINA PICCINNI
books
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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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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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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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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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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GÜLE GÜLE
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 (goodbye in Turkish) 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. While still following a documentary approach, we however decided to leave on the background the informative and didactic content of the images to foster the visual immediacy of the pictures and an open ended narrative.
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")
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
Shortilisted at PHotoESPANA Best Photobook 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")
DAILY BREAD
T&G Publishing
72 b&w photographs duotone printed
112 p. Hardcover trade book
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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THE BURNING PLAIN
ZINE TONIC editions
100 copies | trade book
Soft cover 15,4 x 21,6 cm 56 pages
Black and white photographs
Printed by Grafiche L’Artiere
Winner of 2019 Zine Tonic Award
The Phlegraean Fields, one of the most densely inhabited places in the world, are sitting on a super-volcano. Half a million people learnt to coexist with it and with 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 an unique blend of emotional and geographical landscape, where the connections of humans with the nature and God is under the spell of the Volcano.