[Exhibition] Anna Di Prospero

“With you”
curated by Roberta Fiorito and Alessandro Bucci
with the art direction of Luca La Vopa
Opening: Friday, 2 March – 19.00 – Galleria San Giovanni
Piazzetta Conti Guerra del Grione, 21 – BRA, ITALY

18 – 31 May 2012

[To better know]
www.galleriasangiovanni.it; www.fproject.it, www.flickr.com/photos/dipanna/
annadiprospero.tumblr.com/, www.reflexionsmasterclass

[Events] Diario di un corpo fragile

10 Maggio 2012 h.17,00

Palazzo Valentini, Sala Peppino Impastato

Proiezione del DVD dal laboratorio esponenziale per ragazze con disturbo alimentare

A cura di Eva Tomei e Paola Quintivalle

[Events] Mostra Mi

MostraMi – Studiare Fotografia a Milano 

Spazio Concept, Via V.Forcella 7-13, Milano

6 pm: Irene Alison presents Rearviewmirror magazine.

 

 

[Events] Milan Image Art Fair 2012

Saturday May 5th

8 pm: Presentation of the series Postwords, Postcart editor: ‘Contatti – Provini d’autore’, by Giammaria De Gasperis, with the author, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb; ‘A tu per tu con i grandi fotografi e videoartisti, vol.II’, by Manuela de Leonardis, presented by the author

Sunday May 6th

5 pm: Focus on Magazines: dienacht Magazine, OjodePez, RearViewMirror; with Calin Kruse, Arianna Rinaldo, Irene Alison  [More info]

[Around Photography] Postwords

MIA Fair, Milano

SuperstudioPiù – Via Tortona 27, 20144 Milan, Italy

Presentazione della collana Postwords (Postcart edizioni): “Contatti – Provini d’autore”, di Giammaria De Gasperis; “A tu per tu con i grandi fotografi e videoartisti, vol.II”, di Manuela De Leonardis. Intervengono Giammaria De Gasperis, Manuela De Leonardis, Alex Webb e Rebecca Norris Webb.

CONTATTI – PROVINI D’AUTORE
a cura di Giammaria De Gasperis

La scelta della foto migliore attraverso l’uso del provino a contatto. Le storie, i dettagli e i retroscena di alcuni scatti indimenticabili.
Sessanta autori internazionali – tra i quali Roger Ballen, Elinor Carucci, Mark Cohen, Charlie Cole, Stephane Duroy, Donna Ferrato, Larry Fink, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Bob Gruen, Leonie Hampton, Ed Kashi, Christopher Morris, Asako Narahashi, Rebecca Norris Webb, Reza, Jacob Aue Sobol, Mark Steinmetz, Joseph Szabo, Phil Toledano, Albert Watson, James Whitlow Delano – testimoni della storia degli ultimi sessanta anni e dei protagonisti che l’hanno attraversata: da Ronald Reagan a Barack Obama, dalla repressione di Piazza Tienanmen al conflitto in Afghanistan, dalla Cecenia allo tsunami giapponese, da John Lennon ai Pearl Jam.

PREFAZIONE di CHRISTIAN CAUJOLLE
POSTFAZIONE di NAZARIO DAL POZ

A TU PER TU CON I GRANDI FOTOGRAFI E VIDEOARTISTI, VOL.II
a cura di Manuela De Leonardis

Attraverso la voce diretta dei protagonisti, A tu per tu con grandi fotografi e videoartisti (Vol. II) amplia l’orizzonte del linguaggio fotografico tradizionale aprendosi alla videoarte.
Ventisette autori internazionali – Lida Abdul, Lara Baladi, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Antonio Biasiucci, Broomberg & Chanarin, Guido Cosulich de Pecine, Mario Dondero, Jim Goldberg, Gianfranco Gorgoni, Ara Güler, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kenro Izu, Hamidou Maïga, Hassan Meer, Asako Narahashi, Malekeh Nayiny, Tatsumi Orimoto, Martin Parr, Dino Pedriali, Pushpamala N., Larissa Sansour, Wael Shawky, Alec Soth, Guy Tillim, Valie Export, Alex Webb e Francesco Zizola – intervistati da Manuela De Leonardis tra il 2005 e il 2011 a Bamako, Istanbul, Lucca, Modena, Muscat, Napoli, New York, Parigi, Roma, Savignano sul Rubicone.

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[iRVM] Giuseppe Moccia

Ode To Saba

“I had never done a ”primary” use of photography: I mean I never collected photographs as memories. Probably because of my laziness. Finding constantly myself far from the “here and now” dimension, I prefer to travel in a stream of consciousness – made of images that are a projection of my mind, between past and future.

Recently, thanks to my smart phone, I discovered the pleasure of taking, every now and then, some visual notes, suggestions for larger projects, without a beginning nor an end: a bridge from myself to myself.  Thus, when the autumn took Saba away, I had a chance of reliving the last year we spent together: starting from the photographs, changing their chronological order, I can imagine other stories beyond the one just end.

Ode to Saba is a little tribute, familiar in the content, vernacular in the form.“

 

“Non avevo mai fatto un uso primario della fotografia, ovvero non ho mai collezionato fotografie come memoria. Probabilmente per pigrizia.Trovandomi costantemente lontano dalla dimensione del “qui ed ora”, viaggio in un flusso di coscienza tra passato e futuro fatto di immagini mentali. Recentemente, grazie allo smart phone, ho scoperto il piacere di prendere, costantemente, appunti visivi: chiare indicazioni per una storia più ampia, senza inizio né fine, un ponte da me stesso a me stesso. Così, quando l’autunno si è portato via Saba, ho avuto la possibilità di rivivere l’ultimo anno trascorso insieme: partendo dalle fotografie, scombinandone l’ordine cronologico, ho avuto la possibilità di immaginare altre storie che si estendono oltre quella appena conclusa. Ode to Saba è un piccolo tributo, familiare nel contenuto, vernacolare nella forma.“

[Books] My Generation

Roma > Officine Fotografiche 16.03.2012  h.18

MY GENERATION
Dieci autori under 40
della fotografia documentaria italiana
di
IRENE ALISON
ed. Postcart 2012

Sono giovani, perché nessuno di loro ha oltrepassato la linea dei 40. Sono autarchici,perché per mestiere hanno scelto di esercitare il proprio punto di vista. Sono autori, perché tutti dotati di una consapevolezza narrativa e di una cifra stilistica che rende il loro sguardo immediatamente riconoscibile: Martina Bacigalupo, Massimo Berruti, Lorenzo Castore, Alessandro Cosmelli, Giulio Di Sturco, Simona Ghizzoni, Alessandro Imbriaco, Sirio Magnabosco, Pietro Masturzo, Davide Monteleone. Dieci tra i più interessanti fotografi italiani che, a poco più di 30 anni, hanno già espresso il proprio talento su un orizzonte internazionale. Dieci “piccoli maestri” con un universo creativo da raccontare: da dove nascono le loro visioni? Cosa mettono al centro del loro obiettivo? Come compongono le loro storie? Come sopravvivono a un mercato in crisi? Dalle loro risposte, emerge il ritratto di una generazione che sta riscrivendo i codici del racconto per immagini.
Postfazioni di : James B. Wellford e Arianna Rinaldo  [More Info]

[Workshop] Photoworkshop New York

June 2012 > New York

Photography Workshop in New York City” is a project dedicated to photography training and production between Bologna and New York City created by Laura De Marco and Roberto Alfano of Spazio Labo’| Center of Photography, in collaboration with international professional photographers.

The idea of the project originated from the personal experiences of Laura de Marco and Roberto Alfano, founders of Spazio Labo’ | Center of Photography in Bologna, Italy. Both photographers have had the opportunity to go through a formative experience in New York City (in different times and with different modalities), during which they came into contact with one of the richest and most active artistic realities in the world. Now, they would like to share what they have experienced and learned about: contact networks, training methods, creative atmospheres, possibilities for professional experience; all elements of the vast cultural offer characteristic of the city that can be considered as the current capital of the art of photography.
Therefore, they developed the idea of trying to bring a group of Italian – but not only – photographers to New York, with the intent to guide their students to an exploration of the city’s high level artistic reality in photography (which is hard to discover from anywhere else if not through an accurate research), through a simple and classic visit to the Big Apple. [Read More]

The proposed workshops are:

“New York Stories” with photographer Stefano De Luigi, from June 11 to June 17 2012;

“The Documentary Essay” with photographers Jason Eskenazi and Erica McDonald, from June 18 to June 24 2012;

“The Social Landscape” with photographer Amy Stein, from June 25 to July 1 2012. [More Info]

[Magazine] Brand New Talent

Each issue, Rearviewmirror gives a space to photographers who have never published their work in magazines or newspapers. You just need to send us your story or your portfolio, and a jury composed by RVM staffers and three three external judges, chosen among the best professionals in the photographic industry, will select the work to be published on RVM.

Invaders@Pamela Piscicelli – BNT #7

Selected by a jury composed by RVM staffers, Arianna Rinaldo (picture editor at D, La Repubblica delle Donne and Ojo de Pez editor in chief), Michele Smargiassi (journalist at La Repubblica) and Riccardo Venturi (photographer), Pamela Piscicelli, photographer at her first publication, is RVM#7 Brand New Talent. Born near Chieti in 1978, Pamela’s work was chosen, among all those submitted, for her ability in using distance as an expressive means for a documentary photography that evokes rather than show. Her project Invaders is a very personal testimony of the advance of the oil industry in the Abruzzo region, where oil platforms are increasingly altering the coastline horizon, threatening -such as the “space invaders” of a famous 80s electronic game -the environment and people’s health.

[More Photos]

Fragments@Luigi Cecconi – BNT #6

Selected by a jury composed by RVM staffers, Anna Luccarini (pic­ture editor, 24 magazine), Nazario Dal Poz, (professor and coordinator of the Scuola Romana di Fotografia) and Pietro Masturzo (photographer, World Press Photo of the Year 2009 winner), Luigi Cecconi, photogra­pher at his first publication, is RVM#6 Brand New Talent. Born in 1979 in Rome, Cecconi was cho­sen, among all the works submit­ted, for his incisiveness in portra­ying his family life. His project Fragments is an attempt to put together ­through a photo story in balance between present and memory ­the pieces of a family marked by pain. An endeavor to hold the thread, dealing with his own past, before closing the door behind his back.

[More photos]

Oltre la felicità@Federico Gargaglione - BNT #5

Selected by a jury composed by RVM staffers, Anna Luccarini (picture editor, 24 magazine), Nazario Dal Poz, (professor and coordinator of the Scuola Romana di Fotografia) and Pietro Masturzo (photographer, World Press Photo of the Year 2009 winner), Federico Gargaglione, photographer at his first publication, is RVM#5 Brand New Talent. Born in 1988 in Rome, Gargaglione was chosen, amongmore than fifty works, for his ability to portray emotions in a personal way,maintaining a fluency even in the fragmented narrative of a dream-like tale. His project Beyond happiness, is an exploration around the fleeting nature of this feeling, seen as an apparition difficult to grasp and destined to disappear, leaving behind a trail of disappointment, in the very moment you think you have it in your hands.

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Along the river@Stephanie Gengotti - BNT #4

Selected by a jury composed by RVM staff, Stefano de Luigi (photographer, VII Network), Maurizio Garofalo (picture editor, Diario) and Gaia Mazzolini (picture editor, Prospekt Agency), Stephanie Gengotti, photographer at her first publication on amagazine, is RVM#4 Brand New Talent. Born in 1972, she studied at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia, in Rome. Her project Along the River is a journey to themouth of the Tevere, around the Ostia Seadrome, scene of the assasination of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. Today, this limbo between the river and the sea is what 500 families, who live occupying illegally public land and struggling daily against poverty and threats of eviction, call home.

[More Photos]

Stories of Darkness and Light@Alan Maglio - BNT #3

Selected by a jury composed by RVM staffers, Stefano De Luigi (photographer, VII Network), Maurizio Garofalo (Picture Editor, Diario) and Gaia Mazzolini (Picture Editor, Prospekt Agency) among over fifty works, Alan Maglio, Born in 1979, Alan studied photography at C.F.P. Riccardo Bauer in Milan. His project Stories o fDarkness and Light documents Tokyo as a place where artificial light constantly illuminates darkness, underlining the conflicts and tensions of contemporary Japan – exemplified by the contrast between daytime productive energies and night-time pursuit of pleasure.

[More Photos]

[Exhibitions] Veronica Daltri

Amore mio di provincia

Roma > Officine Fotografiche – 2.03.2012

di Veronica Daltri
a cura di Annarita Curcio e Giammaria De Gasperis

Nelle foto di Veronica Daltri è il “piccolo mondo” della provincia italiana a essere al centro dell’attenzione con le sue cento città a cui negli anni cinema e letteratura nostrani non hanno mai smesso di guardare per dare voce alle mille storie della provincia, ai suoi luoghi e alle strade che l’attraversano sprofondate nel paesaggio e nelle narrazioni che attorno a essa si stratificano.Tuttavia in queste immagini sfila davanti ai nostri occhi una provincia italiana contemporanea poco riconoscibile, lontana da quei cliché che la vorrebbero sempre calda, umana e verace. Qui sembra prevalere, seppur non manchino scene di vita quotidiana, il desiderio di affrancare la narrazione da esigenze descrittive per privilegiare un racconto fatto per frammenti e venato di motivi onirici ed elementi surreali. Lo scopo non è evidentemente individuare le specificità territoriali, ma costruire percorsi e visioni a partire da una idea di provincia intesa più come categoria della mente che come luogo fisico e geografico. E se per azzardo ci si imbatte, nell’esperienza dello sguardo, in una donna che suona il piano davanti a un pubblico inesistente o in uno specchio abbandonato per strada su cui è riflesso un bibelot, questi diventano le figure improbabili di un mondo piccolo, uggioso e crepuscolare, ma incantato e immerso in una magica sospensione che quasi ci obbliga a richiamare alla mente il “realismo magico” dello scrittore Massimo Bontempelli. I suoi personaggi, un po’ come quelli che abitano le foto di Veronica Daltri, vivono situazioni che trasmettono un senso sottile di irrealtà. Ritornano così alla mente le parole dello stesso Bontempelli: “La vera norma dell’arte narrativa è questa: raccontare il sogno come se fosse realtà, e la realtà come se fosse un sogno”.

Obbiettivo Donna, rassegna di fotografia al femminile, dal 2 al 25 marzo punta l’obbiettivo sul confine tra documentazione e visione immaginifica. Uno spazio di confronto per le donne che hanno scelto di esprimere, attraverso i diversi linguaggi, un punto di vista sulla società, i sentimenti e i fenomeni del nostro tempo.
Al via il 2 marzo la settima edizione di Obbiettivo Donna, manifestazione organizzata e prodotta da Officine Fotografiche con il contributo e il patrocinio del Municipio Roma XI, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Memoria. La rassegna, dedicata alla donne, presenta quest’anno il tema della fotografia tra documentazione e visione immaginifica. Le giovani autrici in mostra, Silvia Camporesi, Veronica Daltri e Stephanie Gengotti, con i loro progetti, Rumore bianco, Amore mio di provincia e Nine months, segnano il confine tra il genere documentario e la ricerca artistica, da cui emerge anche una visione più intima che esplora altre vie espressive.
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[Magazine] RVM #7

How hard can we push?

[Magazine] RVM #7 – L’Altra Cover

L’Altra Cover #7 is a shot from Natalie Naccache project Very Young.

“Leave a girl without food or water, but don’t deprive her of her make up, hair and nails”, states Lydia, a beautician at Papillon Rouge beauty salon in Moussaitbeh, Beirut, Lebanon. Originally famed for its wars and cuisine, Lebanon now has the reputation of having the most beautiful women per capita in the world. The phrase “Kteer Jeune” means ”very young” in Arabic and French a theme which runs through the story. Both languages are very prominent in Lebanon, emphasising the post-colonialism of the country which is present everywhere. Females are brought up from a young age influenced by their mothers, having beauty parties, teenagers and women having regular beauty appointments. Every street in Beirut is populated with beauty salons, which are not seen as pampering sessions, but a way of life in Lebanon, even for the busiest of mothers and the poorest of people in society.”

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[Exhibitions] Christopher Anderson

Magnum Gallery
presents
Christopher Anderson
Son
14 février – 14 avril 2012. Paris.

“These images were not intentional. I did not set out to make this body of work. These photographs are an organic response to an experience that is at the same time the most unique and the most universal of experiences: the birth of a child. The photographs that resulted from that response are simple pictures of my family made during the first two years of my son’s life. At the same time that I was experiencing the intense joy of new life, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. It’s fair to say that I found myself reflecting on obvious themes of life and death. Through my son, my role as the son took on new meaning and my senses were hypertuned to the evidence of my own life passing. Then these photographs just sort of happened. They are a record of love and a reflection on the seasonal nature of life.”
Christopher Anderson, January 2012

The exhibition “Son” presents the very personal work of Christopher Anderson accross a selection of about fifteen prints that records his intimate life with his wife and son. With this series the photographer comes back to color photography after Capitolio, a wonderful black and white corpus about the upheavals of contemporary Caracas,Venezuela. Read more info here: http://www.magnumgallery.fr/

[Workshop] Camera Oscura

New workshops by CAMERAOSCURA are going to start in February. To explore your own personal expression through photography and to learn how to do it in a real way, Lorenzo Castore will hold the workshop “Define a Territory”. For those who want to experiment and acquire control of analogic instruments and produce a complete black and white work, and for all those who want to translate their own personal poetic through this, Matteo Alessandri will hold “Black & White Printing” Laboratory. For who wants to explore the world of photography retracing it’s phases from the beginning and learning old printing techniques, there’s the “Old Techniques” Laboratory held by professors Andrea Mosso and Lorenzo Scaramella. By the end, in cooperation with Obiettivo Granieri Association, the workshop “Shooting in Love” held by Lina Pallotta, aims to explore the thin line that defines the boundaries between our personal vision and the subject you want to photograph.
For each workshop portfolio lectures with teachers will be held during the week from february 13th to 17th.

For meetings, further information on all courses and biographies of the teachers visit: 

http://www.cameraoscura.org/laboratori

[Magazine] RVM #7 Preview

RVM #7 – How hard can we push?- is coming soon.

Read a preview on Hippolyte Bayard of Richard Mosse‘s interview by Fabio Severo.

More info on www.rearviewmirror.it

[Workshop] Terra Project for Y’art Project

First edition – 14-21 July 2012

The first edition of the workshop is held by TerraProject, the Italian collective of documentary photographers. It will be a one week full immersion into visual exploration of Saint Petersburg.

The photographers will help understand how to produce an elaborate photo essay about the city, starting from an idea, moving on to create the story, then the editing and the creation of the final multimedia project.

Hasselblad will offer some medium format digital cameras for use of the students.

Scholarship for young photographers and 10% off the price for the first registrations.

For information about the workshop – http://workshopfotograficospb.wordpress.com/

[Workshop] Micheal Ackerman

for more info -> www.obiettivogranieri.net

[Photographers] Vanessa Winship

Directed by Vanessa Winship, see more on RVM#3

A small piece of Eden, Georgia. This place where I buy from a kind of messenger, the seeds for my imagining. Here, they are wrapped in a tiny scrap of an old music manuscript.

Everywhere on the streets I see the remnants of these imaginings, that is until the wind or the rain carries them away.
These are of course the empty husks of sunflower seeds, sold on the streets by old women, and are staple of this whole region.

 

[Exhibitions] Solutions by NOOR

After “Consequences” welcome to “Solutions” by Noor, from Rome to Rio de Janeiro for the Ecosummit 2012.

Francesco Zizola tells to Irene Alison about the project and its history along the Brazilian ethanol industry, follow the link:

http://www.luxury24.ilsole24ore.com/ArteDesign/2011/11/solutions-by-noor_1.php

[Photographers] Norwegian Journal of Photography

Eivind H Natvig, Marie Sjøvold and Andrea Gjestvang have been selected to contribute to the newly launched Norwegian Journal of Photography, supporting documentary projects in Norway. Andrea, Marie and Eivind’s stories from Norway will be published in a book in 2012. The book is the result of a process under which the photographers selected for inclusion will be followed up through master classes and personal guidance. Work in progress will be featured on the NJP website – see link below.

http://www.njp.no/en/participants/

[Review] Paris Photo 2011

Unanimous success for the first exposition of Paris Photo 2011 at the Grand Palais.

You missed it? Click here to read a review by Irene Alison for Luxury 24:

http://www.luxury24.ilsole24ore.com/ArteDesign/2011/11/paris-photo-2011_1.php

[Exhibitions] – Giulio Di Sturco

3/11 Tsunami Photo Project – Open Mind, Milano

25.11.2011 – 20.01.2012

Curated by Chiara Oggioni Tiepolo.

The 3/11 Tsunami Photo Project aims to raise awareness of the disastrous aftermath due to the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. The project collects a relief fund through an iPhone and iPad application which delivers vivid images of the most damaged areas captured through the eyes of world-renowned professional photojournalist. [more info]

Premio di Fotogiornalismo Multimediale

a cura di Fotografia & Informazione
La prima edizione del Premio di Fotogiornalismo Multimediale del MEI (Meeting degli Indipendenti) – aperto a tutte le opere multimediali di carattere fotogiornalistico, documentario e informativo – ha l’intento di valorizzare e di dare visibilità alle produzioni multimediali prodotte nel nostro paese.
Fotografia & Informazione, associazione italiana giornalisti dell’immagine, curerà il premio.

La giuria, composta da professionisti e critici del settore, premierà il progetto multimediale che riterrà più meritevole in termini di contenuti, forma, efficacia e attualità. La giuria si riserva altresì il diritto di non assegnare il premio qualora nessuno dei progetti partecipanti soddisfi le caratteristiche richieste.

La cerimonia di premiazione, in cui verrà proiettata l’opera vincitrice, si svolgerà alla prossima edizione del MEI – Meeting degli Indipendenti  -  che si terrà come MEDIMEX presso la Fiera del Levante di Bari, dal 24 al 27 novembre 2011.

In questa prima edizione Fotografia & Informazione metterà in palio un premio di 1000,00 €  ed il progetto multimediale del vincitore verrà promosso e diffuso grazie ai vari canali di comunicazione del MEI, di Fotografia & Informazione, e ai numerosi media partner del PIVI. [More Info]

L’iscrizione al PRIMO PREMIO DI FOTOGIORNALISMO MULTIMEDIALE del MEI è gratuita e aperta a tutte le realizzazioni multimediali prodotte dopo il 1° gennaio 2010 che abbiano una durata NON superiore ai 10 minuti.

Il tema è libero ma è richiesto un contenuto giornalistico trattato professionalmente, con collegamento all’attualità e scopo informativo.

L’iscrizione deve essere fatta entro il 30 Ottobre 2011 leggendo il bando, compilando il modulo di iscrizione online e poi spedendo il materiale richiesto via e-mail a multimedia@fotoinfo.net

[Exhibitions] Simona Pampallona

Corpo Celeste, behind the scenes – Turin, Scuola Holden

Friday October the 7th, at Scuola Holden, opening of the exhibition “Corpo Celeste – Behind the scenes”. Photographs by Simona Pampallona, edited by Irene Alison (editor in chief of RearViewMirror).  The selections of the pictures is dedicated to the set photos of the first movie by Alice Rohrwacher (produced by La Tempesta Film and Istituto Luce), with Yle Vianello, Anita Caprioli and Salvatore Cantalupo, and recently accepted – as only Italian film -in the billboard of the “Quinzaine des Realisateurs” at Cannes. [ Read More ]

[Ehxibitions] CAMERAOSCURA Open Studio

Fotoleggendo – Roma, Officine Fotografiche

15.09.2011 – 26.10.2011

CAMERAOSCURA presents a special happening for Fotoleggendo’s VIIth edition.  This involves several studios on Via Negri like the historical laboratory Irfe, on the street since 2004 and other two young activities: Area 63 and Soulnest, the first committed in audiovisual and the second in music.
The night will be the opportunity to share the opening of CAMERAOSCURA and Irfe’s new spaces which will both focus on the excellence of printing. The event will be supplyied by sound performances, live exhibitions and projections proposed toghether with the other studios.
Among the authors: Micheal Ackerman with his work “Half Life”, Lorenzo Castore with “Ultimo Domicilio”and Adam Cohen with “Blind Grace”.
The happening is built in a path through the open studios where people will be able to visit the laboratories and meet directly printers, videomakers and music operators. It will be a special opportunity for people to give a closer look at the way every single studio works.

The happening is part of the Fotoleggendo 2011′s calendar as a special event and it will be held on October 15th from 6.00 pm in Via F. Negri. [More info]

RVM#7 – Brand New Talent

ph Luigi Cecconi [More pictures]

Each issue, Rearviewmirror gives a space to photographers who have never published their work in magazines or newspapers. You just need to send us your story or your portfolio, and a jury composed by RVM staffers and three three external judges, chosen among the best professionals in the photographic industry, will select the work to be published on RVM. [More info]

submission@rearviewmirror.it

The selected photographer’ll receive a Diana Camera by Lomography!

[Exhibitions] Fotografia Roma 2011

FOTOGRAFIA –  International Photo Festival 2011 - Roma, Macro Testaccio - 23.09.2011 – 23.10.2011

X Edition – Motherland 

Rome’s International Photography Festival reaches its 10th edition this year with a project that confirms the event’s growing national and international prestige and its ever more concrete attention to original productions and strong initiatives.  Its overall purpose is to promote contemporary photography in its different forms and languages, and to support talents now emerging at the national and international levels.

 For September 23rd and 24th, the Festival has organized meetings, lectures, workshops, presentations and screenings to encourage contacts between people who love or are curious about photography, and the whole international, Italian and Roman community of practitioners present in the city on those days.

 The theme of the Festival’s 10th edition is MOTHERLAND, a word that should stimulate an analysis of the relationship between land and identity, between territory and values, between roots and the complexity of contemporary life, with a special focus on Italy, which this year is celebrating its first century and a half of unity. [More Info]

[Magazine] RVM Browse iRVM

[Exhibitions] Nadia Shira Cohen

“A Private War Among Brothers” – Roma, B>gallery – 15.09.2011

Police and Drug Traffickers in Rio De Janeiro are born into the same poverty, they are often raised together, share the same neighborhoods, frequent the same parties, and even in several cases are either friends or family members.  They are fighting a war against each other fueled by drugs and a lack of government support and basic services inside the poor favela communities of Rio.  Many police officers born in and who continue to live inside the favela, often do so because they cannot afford to move out into a better neighborhood. With very low wages almost 95% of Military and Civil Police officers of Rio hold second or sometimes even third jobs to support their families and many live in violent neighborhoods, sometimes even controlled by drug lords.  This lack of compensation creates an easy environment as well as a tolerance for corruption and police involvement in drug trafficking. [Read more]

[Nadia Shira Cohen on RVM #1]

[Magazine] RVM Browse Retrospettiva #6

Italians do it better?

[Last issue]

[Exhibitions] Sacha Goldberger

“Mamika & Co” – Paris,  Bailly Contemporain – 15.09.2011

Sacha Goldberger will expose his new series Ménage à Trois from 16 september untill 29 october 2011. The series follows the series Super Mamika. This new series is contains Super Mamika in her unlikely threesome. With Super Papika –the legitimate Super Papouka- the lover, and Super Mamika, who are simply trying to improve their daily lives, like everyone.The fight against boredom is not the preserve of men condemned to banality. Super Heroes are also looking for a better world. It must be said that our Super Family does not seem very busy to save the world.
This series of pictures, far from being simply an ode to the vertical, always comes back to the condition of the man who has his feet on earth. The boundary between memory and imagination fades, giving way to the game of love and provocation.
Between irony and tenderness, between farce and poetry, Mamik reminds us that we are forced to deal with reality. We need vacuuming, enjoy, suffer and cause suffering, cherish and remember, and hopefully, looking up at a sky streaked with traces of a paper airplane. [Mamika on RVM #5]

[Exhibitions] Nina Viviana Cangialosi

“Ero acqua io” – Bari, F.Project -  9.09.2011

A photographic exhibition by Nina Viviana Cangialosi, curated by Luca La Vopa.

“Ero acqua io” is a visual journey comes with the verses by persian poet Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī. Images taken during a continuous travelling with a photocamera and some books that together make an aide-mémoire of the soul where travelling become a metaphor of going trought your selves and trought the mutation of your inner self. [Read more]

[Exhibitions] Emiliano Mancuso

STATO D’ITALIA -  Firenze, Palazzo Medici Riccardi – 6.09.2011

The volume collects the best projects published on www.reportageitalia.it by a group of Italian journalists.

Reportage Italy is also the name of journalistic and photographic project founded in April 2009 in the name of  the “slow” journalism, with the classic tone of the reportage… [Read more]

[Magazine] RVM Browse Projects #6

Italians do it better?

[Last issue]

[Photographer] Emily Schiffer

My Viewpoint / Venice Arts student’s

Today Time Magazine’s Lightbox is featuring the My Viewpoint / Venice Arts student’s double exposure images, a project by Emily Schiffer.

[Read more about it on RVM.it]

[iRVM] Michela Palermo

Can You Hear Me?  by Michela Palermo

A dummy book from the workshop “Personal documentary: Interior “

led by Michael Ackerman

ISSP, Kuldiga (LT) – Summer 2011

     

    

  

“We came from the woods, we just landed in the middle of nowhere.

It was like a dream, we didn’t have time to sleep. 

Nobody was at home, we just make our borders home.

We share one language and millions of glance. 

We were supposed to work with light and lightness, 

we had to get lost and reconstruct the world.

The masters and the key ladies have been waiting for us.”

“It was just my summer school of photography.

This is a visual diary. Most of the people who made of those days are not  in these pics, they are all in my memories, the best app. for my eyes.”

  

 

[Send us your iPhone stories to redazione@rearviewmirror.it]

[Photographers] 2011 IPA Winners

Anna Di Prospero

2011 People Photographer of the year -“Self portrait with my mother”

[View here RVM #6 Coverstory]

Gianni Troilo

3rd Place Advertising Music Pro – “L’almanacco Terrestre”

[Click here to know more about iRVM]

 

[Exhibitions] Outer Edges Of Some Buried Age

Castelmezzano, Palazzo Coiro, Potenza  03.09.2011 – 03.10.2011

A view from Castelmezzano: rupestrian cultures in the Mediterranean region and beyond: photographs by Domingo Milella, curated by 3/3.  The landscape is the place where ancient – or rather archaic – history lives uneasily alongside the present creating a dialogue, and often discord, which the various forms of residential settlements, houses, urban structures and their infrastructures, reveal to our eyes in its full complexity. It is the place where memory and the identity of the community take shape, with layers and cracks, emersions and erosions, recounted mainly in anonymous form by the network of architecture of everyday life and past life.

Domingo Milella is interested in the power of this story written in the rocks, a culture that is often silent and forgotten, which in Southern Italy, like in many other parts of the world, is marked by its countertrend resistance to what Pasolini described as the inexorable forms of “post-history”, the surge of modernisation and the capitalistic process whose globalising movement spawned the confusion of contemporary society and the loss of the sense of community and rootedness. [Read More]

[iRvm]

 

ph. Massimo Mastrorillo

A pair of shoes made ​​in Italy from Seoul. The wing of the plane that takes you back home. The first strip of land across the ocean. A sunflowers field. But is it the eye, or is the app? We have no doubt and for this reason, we are not afraid to push into a new territory: the iPhone-photography. And you? What do you think about it? We’re waiting to you to share new visions.  Send us your iphone-photos to redazione@rearviewmirror.it We’ll post here the most interesting.

[Magazine] RVM #6 – Italians do it better?

Cast a glance. What do you see out of the window? We started from here, for this new journey. And we didn’t get far away. The idea, this time, was to look closely, changing the angle from which we lay our eyes on known things. Italians do it better? is the way we ask ourselves who Italians are, beyond a casual and diverse mix of people sharing the same territory. Where the boundaries of the stereotype end, and where another country – never seen yet, or ever looked at from certain perspectives – begins. Italians do it better? is the question behind our cover, a shot from the work in progress Self portrait with my family by Anna Di Prospero, whose work can be seen on the magazine’s website.

RVM #6, june – september 2011 16×24, ita/eng, 132 pp., 10 euro, Edizioni Postcart

Italians do it better? is doubt we suggested to our photographers, for the first time grouped in a single, wide, Projects section: Veronica Daltri, who has gone through the Italian province with the delicacy of her eyes in 110 One; Emiliano Mancuso, author of Male Nostrum, a bitter fresco of the country 150 years after the Unification; Giorgio Barrera, who reinterpreted the present through the pictures from the ’70s in Loss of Innocence; Michele Palazzi and Alessandro Penso, who documented the life of immigrants came across the sea to sweat on italian land in Migrant Worker’s Journey; Viviana Cangialosi who shows us her personal perspective on Italy in Pas Perdus, an intimate journal of images and words. To entertain a dialogue with the pictures, we chose four stories written for us by as many young writers who graduated from the Holden School, an institute of higher learning in Writing that supported us for RVM#6, affording a valuable contribution to our research on the different forms of storytelling. Italians do it better? is, finally, the question we ask authors who joined iRVM section, our new photographic experiment: a space dedicated to iPhonephotography, for which some of the best Italian photographers (equipped with the iPhone) gave us a shot that tells something about Italy, also telling, on the occasion, something about the new resources and the new languages enabling to document the world. The scenario changes with Retrospettiva. Through James Whitlow Delano images, the section explores the black and white horizon of a photographer who travelled from Cina to Japan, from South America to Southestern Asia. Finally, with Picture in a Frame, we choose Tommaso Bonaventura’s Christ Clone to close RVM#6 photographic journey. Among the columns, Archivio Segreto, an immersion into the archive of a master of photography, tells the story of Dino Pedriali. InterView meets Leonie Hampton just after the publication of his new book In The Shadow of Things. PhotoBiz dialogues with Kassel Photobookfestival founder Dieter Neubert about the new routes of publishing. LimeLight, venturing into the territory of dynamic photography, interviews Alessandro Pesci, Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam director of photography. Finally, RVM Brand New Talent, a contest dedicated to photographers who publish their work for the first time. Selected by a jury composed by RVM staffers, Anna Luccarini (picture editor, Ventiquattro magazine), Nazario Dal Poz, (professor and coordinator of the Scuola Romana di Fotografia) and Pietro Masturzo (World Press Photo of the Year 2009 winner), Luigi Cecconi made his publishing debut, with the project Fragments, on RVM #6.

Picture This! by Arte Creative

Picture this! The Weekly Photo Interview

Every month Arte Creative -editorial animated site for inspiring contemporary audiovisual creations-  features a photographer and send him/her a questionaire with ten questions – and he/she will answer in pictures.

The questions are: what is the first thing you touch in the morning? | what is the meaning of life? | what do you normally never take a picture of? | what inspires you most?  Enjoy here the answers.

[Meet RVM] Book your Portfolio Review at Visa pour l’Image

Hi Photographer! Would you like to publish your pictures on RVM? Show us your work during Visa pour l’Image Professional Week in Perpignan. RVM staffers will be on the rooftop of the Palais des Congrès on September 2nd and 3rd to evaluate the essays to be included in the mag’s forthcoming issues. Please, write us at redazione@rearviewmirror.it to schedule an appointment.

[Multimedia] Atomic City

by Micha Patault

The town of Richlands, Washington State, grew out of the communities of workers employed by the Manhattan Project in the 1940s to manufacture America’s atomic weapons. The atomic site is now obsolete, largely dismantled, a few buildings and a huge farm of underground tanks containing highly radioactive waste are all that remain. But a few miles away the nuclear workers and their descendants live in a community where the bomb is remembered as a good, a weapon that ended the slaughter of World War II. [View here "Atomic City"]

[Best Cover Magazine] July 2011

“Games”

The final issue of 24 magazine, the monthly newspaper of Il Sole 24 Ore, is coming and devotes its last theme at the games, in all its forms.

[Read here the last editorial]

[Book ReView] Soweto by Jodi Bieber

“There are a several ways to define what a township is. Above all, there are different meanings of the term depending on its geographical location. In the South Africa of the apartheid the term was used to distinguish those areas adjacent to urban metropolitan areas in which only no-white citizens lived. Soweto was the real emblem of this concept, as well as of fundamental importance in the collective consciousness in relation to the racist phenomena… [Read more]

[InterView] Maurizio Galimberti

by Irene Alison

• Name Maurizio Galimberti
• Date and place of birth 1965, Como
• Profession Artist
• First Camera Canon FTB
• Last Pictures A shot for the exhibition Mediterraneo, Un’antologia per immagini, took in Capri

[RVM] Your work is currently exhibited in the show Mediterraneo, Un’antologia per immagini (organized by Contrasto agency and Fondazione Capri, until September 4th at the Certosa San Giacomo in Capri), that combines your pictures with those by Herb List in a portrait of the island of Capri between past and present. How it was your creative relationship with Capri and with List’s images?

[MG] List is a myth of photography: that’s why when the curator Denis Curti asked me to join this project I was scared, it seemed to me a risky a comparison. I started from my love for Capri, the quiet and deserted island that you can find in winter. I arrived in December with new instant black and white film that the Impossible project team asked me to experiment. I tried to get lose in the island, following the cold and the smell of the sea, the light of the lighthouse that guides the ships in the port, looking for List’s places but also getting rid of his ghost, to take pictures without being slave of any preconception.. [Click here to continue]

[Workshop] The View from Lucania

25.07.2011 – 31.07.2011

Massimo Mastrorillo – Nazario Dal Poz – Irene Alison :

“Time that isn’t. Reflections on a landscape: then and now”

Throughout the week, participants will work in and with the natural environment under the guidance of Massimo Mastrolillo and Nazario Dal Poz. Their task will be to describe the area, its characteristics and changes. The overall objective is to develop an author’s approach in the documentation of reality and the analysis of the different types of language used to tell stories through images.

Meeting people and listening to the stories which illustrate the reality of the local community will give participants the chance to explore not only the present but the past as well. Participants will also have access to historic public and private photo archives allowing them to put these historical documents into a new perspective and recontextualise different kinds of storytelling into a modern editorial product.

Coordinated by Irene Alison, participants will produce a fanzine which will gather together the photographic and research work done during the week. [More Info]

[Exhibitions] A Girl and her room

London 01.07.2011 – 23.07.2011 – The Mosaic Rooms

The Arab-American photographer Rania Matar brings her award-winning series of images, A Girl and her Room, to the UK for the first time. This series features intimate photographic portraits of teenage girls in their most personal space, their bedroom.

This project began by Matar photographing her teenage daughter with her friends. She soon realised the girls were very conscious of each other in the way they behaved and represented themselves when together. From there emerged the idea of photographing each girl alone in her personal space, where she would give a more honest representation of her personality.

Matar took as her subjects teenage girls from the two worlds she experienced herself as a teenager and a young twenty year old, making this project very personal: the Middle and the United States. She became fascinated by how girls face similar issues at that age, regardless of culture, religion and background. [Read more on RVM #4]

 

[Magazine] RVM #5 Live II

RVM waits for you the 16th June at Fnac Napoli h.18 | Don’t miss it!

[Magazine] RVM #5 Live

 

RVM waits for you this saturday 11th June 17.00 /19.00h | Mediateca Montanari Memo, piazza Pier Maria Amiani, FANO [View all the details]

[InterView] Simona Ghizzoni

by Irene Alison

• Name Simona Ghizzoni
• Date and place of birth 1977, Reggio Emilia
• Profession Photographer
• First Camera A Minolta found in the trash
• Last Pictures A portrait of a friend with a Holga lens mounted on the D700, in Venice

[RVM] Your latest work, which focuses on the Gaza Strip, was recently among the winners of Aftermath Special Project Grant. How did you start this project?

[SG] I had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Gaza after a work done with a journalist in the West Bank. I fell in love with the place, I tested my strength to bear the difficulties of that context and I decided to start from Gaza to undertake a project on post-war and women condition in Muslim countries. As in many other countries in the area, women in Gaza live a kind of double imprisonment, both for the political and social situation. Despite of the differences of the environments, there is a strong link between this work and what I did before: since Odd days, my long term project on anorexia, I’ve always been interested in telling how to live – especially as a woman – in a world from which you cannot escape. [Read the full interview]

[Best Cover Magazines] May 2011

EPOCA, MAY 2011

O fim?

Bin Laden is dead. Portuguese-language magazine Epoca,published in Brazil, used a cover realized by its creative staff with a crumpled image of Bin Laden and the headline “The End?”

[Read the cover story]

“The Quiet After the Storm: Croatia’s displaced Serbs”

A reportage by Ivor Prickett – partecipant selected for Joop Swart Masterclass | World Press Photo 2011

The Croatian war of Independence displaced over 300,000 Croatian Serbs between 1991 and 1995. It was towards the end of the war that 200,000 of them were uprooted by a Croatian military offensive known as Operation Storm. This was the single largest displacement of people in Europe since World War Two. With tactical advice and training from the US, the first of two massive country wide military operations were launched in an attempt to rout the Serbian paramilitary units that controlled vast parts of Storm only lasted a few days and although hailed as a military masterstroke on the part of the Croats, the majority of those displaced were innocent civilians. Thirteen years later people are still trickling back despite the odds, in order to reclaim houses and rebuild lives in their homeland… [View the gallery]

[Book Review] The Mercy Project / Inochi by James Whitlow Delano

Everything is started just making a question, with an email sent to the entire fellow and the friends photographers: “what’s you for you, just through an image, the mercy?”  Everything is born from a tragic and, at the same time, sweet private story… [Read More]

[Exhibitions] Corpo Celeste – Behind the Scenes

Roma, 1.06.2011 – 16.06.2011

Wednesday June the 1st, at Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, opening of the exhibition “Corpo Celeste – Behind the scenes”. Photographs by Simona Pampallona, edited by Irene Alison (editor in chief of RearViewMirror).  The selections of the pictures is dedicated to the set photos of the first movie by Alice Rohrwacher (produced by La Tempesta Film and Istituto Luce), with Yle Vianello, Anita Caprioli and Salvatore Cantalupo, and recently accepted – as only Italian film -in the billboard of the “Quinzaine des Realisateurs” at Cannes. [ Read More ]

[Magazine] Brand New Talent #6 – Deadline Extended

ph. Stephanie Gengotti

Each issue, Rearviewmirror gives a space to photographers who have never published their work in magazines or newspapers.

Send us your story and a jury composed by RM staffers, Nazario Dal Poz (teacher at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia), Anna Luccarini (picture editor, 24 Magazine) and Pietro Masturzo (photographer, World Press Photo of the year 2009) will select the work to be pubblished on RVM#6.
How to submit

Send a Cd containg pictures (max 30/min 15, jpg only, max 500kb) + captions and synopsi to

Redazione RVM

c/o Postcart Editore, via Faedis 8/10 – 00177 Roma

Deadline Extended

May, 27th, 2011

[Photographers] Alessandro Imbriaco

Also Alessandro Imbriaco is among the 12 photographers selected to participate at the 18th annual World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.  The Joop Swart Masterclass has been organized by World Press Photo every year since 1994. Its goal is to bring together some of the most experienced individuals in photojournalism with 12 young, promising photographers so that they can share and pass on their knowledge and experience. From the beginning of the program, a total of 199 young photographers have participated in the program, many of them moving on to establish themselves as today’s leading photojournalists. Alessandro Imbriaco was born in Salerno, Italy, in 1980. His works were published on the most important Italian magazines and he won the 2008 Canon Award for Young Photographers. His work was shown in solo and collective exhibitions (“Premio Atlante Italiano 2007”, MAXXI, Museum for the Arts of the XXI Century, Rome – Fotografia, Rome International Photography Festival – Grazia Neri Gallery, Milan, 2009 – Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan 2009 – Global Photography, Savignano Immagini 2009). Since 2008 he’s taking part to the Reflexions Masterclass by Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret. He is currently distributed by Contrasto Photographic Agency. He lives and works in Rome. [View Casilino 900]

[Magazine] RVM#5 Live

RVM waits for you from the 12th to 15th May | Milan Image Art Fair and the 13th May | Fnac Milano h.18

Don’t miss it!

[Photographers] Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Twelve young photographers have been selected to come together with a group of masters for the 18th annual World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass to be held from 28 October to November 2011 in the Kunstenhuis in the Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. The 12 partecipants were selected among 175 candidates from 62 countries who had been nominated to submit their portfolio. During the the six-day masterclass meeting, the participating photographers will interact with six prominent experts, discussing technical, journalistic and  ethical aspects of their works. Between their will be also the young photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind, our guest of  RVM #3 Cover Story.

Congratulations Anastasia!

[Exhibitions] New York Photo Festival

NY, 11.05.2011 – 15.05.2011

Designed to be a New York counterpart and thematic successor to the prestigious European photo festivals Les Rencontres d’Arles, PHotoEspaña, Perpignan and Visa pour l’Image—and American festivals such as FotoFest in Texas—the New York Photo Festival creates an international atmosphere of inspiring visual installations, professional and aficionado fellowship and camaraderie, and news-worthy staged presentations, awards ceremonies, and symposia over the course of four-and-a-half days during the busiest photography month in New York City.

The festival was founded by Daniel Power and Frank Evers. The inaugural NYPH (May 14–18, 2008) proved an astounding success, with over 15,000 tickets sold, 2,500 industry professionals and artists, 1,000 members of the international press, packed seating for all day and evening programming events at St. Ann’s Warehouse (450 capacity), 20 countries represented in curated and satellite pavilions, 85,000 clicked site visits, 47,000 blog posts, 2.5 million unique visits to www.nyphotofestival.com, 49 media partners, and over 3,000 submissions from 87 countries for the New York Photo Awards (www.newyorkphotoawards.com). Each year, the New York Photo Festival has been bigger in all respects.

The festival is headquartered in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. [For more information]

Italians photographers in Libya

Davide Monteleone, Pietro Masturzo, Riccardo Venturi, Alfredo Bini, Marco Vacca, Francesca Mancini.

On February 15th 2011, a series of peaceful protests against the corruption of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, de-facto ruler of all Libya since 1969, took place in Benghazi, the capital of the Cyrenaica region. Nevertheless the dictator’s security services attempted to repress the uprising, within a week it had spread across the country. Gaddafi responded with military force and other measures such as censorship and blocking of communications and the situation escalated into armed conflict, with rebels establishing a coalition named the Transitional National Council based in Benghazi. On 19 March 2011 a multi-state coalition began a military intervention in Libya, to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, called for using “all necessary means” to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas from attack. Among all the photographers who worked on the front lines and on the Libyan borders to document the war and the consequent humanitarian crisis, RVM has chosen to show some shots of the Italians who have been distinguished for the depth and quality of their work. [Click here to view the gallery]

[Best Cover Magazines] March 2011

Newsweek USA, march 2011

Earthquake 8.9

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.  Latest cover of Tina Brown’s Newsweek features the devastating earthquake in Japan. [Read the cover story]

[Exhibitions] See you, See me

Roma, 4.05.2011 – 4.06.2011

Photographs by  di Marco Ambrosi | Luis Basto | Ologeh Otuke Caharles | Matteo Danesin | Delphine Diallo | Soibifaa Dokubo | Andrew Dosunmu | Anirban Duttagupta | Andrew Esiebo | Angè Le Etoundi Essamba | Ines Goncalves |Patrizia Maimouna Guerresi | Hassan Hajjaj | Lyle Ashton Harris | Uche Okpa Iroha | Majida Khattari |Stanley Lumax | Mamadou M’Baye | Zanele Muholi | Malik Nejmi | Cedric Nunn | Nii Obodai, J.D. Ojeikere | Alfredo Munoz De Oliveira | George Osodi | Zak Ové | Pauliana Valente Pimentel | Malik Sidibé | Aldo Sodoma | Daniele Tamagni | Hank Willis Thomas | Bartelemy Toguo| Michael Tsegaye| Deb Willis. Thirty-three photographers will give voice to the African art scene from the 60s to today. From 4 May to 4 June at Officine Fotografiche will be exhibiting works from 14 countries worldwide. A touring exhibition, curated by Awam Amkpa, which illustrates the influence of photography on the African post-colonial language in the visual representation of Africa and its diaspora. The show opens with a presentation attended by the trustee, several photographers and industry experts. [For more info]

[Multimedia] A l’abri de Rien

Samuel Bollendorff & Mehdi Ahoudig

“In France there are 3.6 million people who do not have the opportunity to live in suitable housing situations and the public must know what means to spend a whole lives in these conditions.” These are the words of Christopher Robert, vice director of the Abbè Pierre Foundation, producer of the web documentary that in France is moving the attention about a theme who for a long time has been on the edge of the public opinion. The documentary, directed by Samuel Bollendorff Ahoudig and Mehdi Ahoudig, is a set of long shots about ​​the slums and their inhabitants, and a series of audio stories that dot the images in a strong way.” [View]

[Book ReView] Quota Mille

Francesco Fossa

• Quota Mille
• Essays by Paolo Rumiz
• [30 €, Punctum, 2010]

“There is an Italy that does not change, with its immobility as a symbol of boast, pride and strength. There is an Italy where the time goes with a different rhythm, life is marked by nature much more than technology, the lure of progress does not take root, the policy is an obscure and distant concept. There is an Italy mounted in the mountains as much as in any time dimension, a place where the nature is rude and sometimes water and energy should be considered a privilege. “Italy does not love the mountain men, they are considered weights, boorish, ignorant beasts. Italy lives as quote zero, it doesn’t know that an altitude of one thousand it is played up his story and its pastoral wealth has built.” In this way Paolo Rumiz presents the book of Francesco Fossa, a series of photographs taken in the area of Matese, the mountain range that runs through part of the Molise and Campania. [Read more]

[InterView] Massimo Mastrorillo

by Irene Alison

• Name Massimo Mastrorillo
• Date and place of birth Turin, Italy, 02.07.61
• Profession Photographer
• First Camera Nikon FE2
• Last Pictures A couple of grandparents on their Golden Wedding anniversary, saddened by the fact that, after their son’s divorce, they cannot see their granddaughter anymore.

[RVM] Your project, “Temporary? Landscapes”, about the controversial reconstruction that followed the earthquake in L’Aquila, started from Fnac bookstore in Milan (until May 4th) a tour in Fnac’s bookstores throughout Italy. How did you begin working on this project?

[MM] I was in L’Aquila immediately after the earthquake, but I was not interested to join the media frenzy around the tragedy. I wanted to document the consequences of an event exploited on a political level as perhaps no other in our history: that’s why I kept going back there over the next two years.. [read more]

[Exhibitions] My Broken world – Photographs by Michela Palermo and Francesca Cao

At 19:34 on 23 November 1980, the earth shook for ninety seconds in Irpinia, Basilicata and Alto Sele. Ninety seconds to take the life of 2,998 people, 280 thousand to tear the house to other, changing the geography of places and produce illusions who were quickly dashed. My world is broken the story in pictures of a world shattered. A land crossed by deep cracks, by tears never sewn. The lives of those who remained suspended, stuck in a time still.

My Broken World, pictures by Francesca Cao and Michael Palermo, editor Irene Alison from April 14 to May 7, 2011 to Mandeep Photography

[Magazine] RVM issue#6: call for entry: Italians do it better?

Where is Italy? Who are, beyond the random and different mix of people who live in the same territory, the Italians? Where do the boundaries of the stereotype end and where does another country begin? Italians do it better? will be RVM#6 theme: The works you submit ought to be your personal answer to this question, your point of view on a country on the move, your proof that, in your backyard, you can still find untold stories, you can tilt the gaze toward new perspectives, there is still the possibility of surprising. We are open to all your views, even those we didn’t anticipate. Go on, surprise us!

send yours at submission@rearviewmirror.it

[Multimedia] Mon oncle d’Amerique

by Marc Cellier
In 1912 August Arnal left his country, France, for the USA. He first arrived in New York, settling later in Ohio. During all his life, he sent pictures of his success to his family, leaving his marks and nourishing, at the same time, his personal legend and the legend of the promise land. Marc Cellier put together the fragments of the life of this man, his uncle, in an “America dream” story suspended between personal and universal. [view]

[Book ReView] Il Fotografo

“It’s 1986, and there is a war in Afghanistan. There’s always a war in Afghanistan. Three quarter of the Afghan people haven’t known any other period than the war one. Every war prepares and justifies the following one, as it happens for the rest of the world, with the only difference that in Afghanistan the break that we call “peace” is so short to be almost void”. In this way Adriano Sofri presents The photographer, the first unified version of the trilogy with the same title created by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre and Frederic Lemercier. [read more]

[Exhibitions] In the shadow of things – photographs by Leonie Hampton

Milano, 25.03.2011 – 1.05.2011

Thursday March the 24th 6.30 pm, at Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, opening of the exhibition In the shadow of things. Photographs by Leonie Hampton. The photographic essay is articulated in a series of warm and at times, poetic images, veiled by a dim light and soft colours as if they were about to fade out. Yet a strong energy keeps this incredible family album together: the awareness that if the strength of personal ties is the reason why a family is so, Leonie’s is not a lesser family, and the honest affection that bonds the actors of this “play” is told with a sincere, melancholic and indestructible love. Don’t miss it!

[Photographers] Stefano De Luigi

Surprise. Among the finalists in the category World Press Photo of the multimedia – the most prestigious photojournalism contest in the world – there is an Italian. The list of competitors in the final was published yesterday: six productions, including even “Blanco. Visions of Blindness“by Stefano De Luigi.  Read the personal page dedicated to the project to RVM.

[InterView] Paolo Pellegrin

by Irene Alison

• Name Paolo Pellegrin
• Profession Fotografo
• Date and place of birth Rome, 1964
• First book Kosovo, 1999-2000, Trolley, (Londra, 2002)
• Current Exhibition Dies Irae, Galleria Forma, Milano, fino al 15 maggio

[RVM] Dies Irae, your first major retrospective in Italy, follows the path of the last twenty years, that you spent working as a photographer. What’s the common thread that ties your research on photography?

[PP] My pictures are linked by a common focus on humanity, by the same desire to witness people facing extreme circumstances. Furthermore, I am a Magnum photographer, I’m part of a group that constantly researchs on photography language, attempting to balance the tradition with the complexity of the contemporary: I guess this is reflected in my shots..  [read more]

[Magazine] Cover Story #5 – God Save Mamika!

by RVM

Frederika Goldberger is not only the star of the shots by French advertising photographer Sacha Goldberger, she is first of all a ninety-seven years lady with an adventurous past (born in Budapest 20 years before World War II, she courageously saved, at the peril of her own life, the lives of ten people during the war), who suddenly fallen into a unexplainable and ferocious depression. To cheer her up, her grandson Sacha suggested that they shoot a series of outrageous photographs in unusual costumes, poses and locations. Grandma reluctantly agreed, but once they got rolling, she couldn’t stop smiling. With the unexpected success of this series, titled Mamika (or grandma in Hungarian), Goldberger created a MySpace page for her (http://www.myspace.com/frederikagoldberger). She now has over 2,500 friends. [read more]

[Magazine] RVM #5 – Icons or Idols?

Which ones are the symbols of our time? What language do we choose to represent them? When the pursuit of an icon – a status, a religious symbol, a brand, a flag – turns into idolatry? Icons or Idols? is RVM#5 theme: this issue aims to be an exploration on new iconography (and new forms of idolatry) of the contemporary, a journey to discover the myths of the present and the visual codes by which we celebrate them.

RVM #5, february – may 2011 16×24, ita/eng, 128 pp., 10 euro, Edizioni Postcart

Icons or Idols? is the question behind our cover, a shot from Mamika, Grande Petite Grand-mére by Sacha Goldberger, whose work can be accessed on the magazine’s website (totally renewed), www.rearviewmirror.it . Icons or Idols? is the question we ask ourselves and photographers of Reportage section: Benjamin Lowy who, using his iPhone for the project Vidi, turns in icons the snapshots of our time; Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko crossing, with Nine cities, the city of Grozny like it was a constellation of symbols; Eidvin Natvig documenting, with India Statue State, the invention of a stone myth; Marc Cellier, telling, with Mon Oncle d’Amerique, the legend of the promised land staying in the balance between the autobiographical and the universal. Icons or Idols? is the question we pose also to RVM#5 contributors: Ryan David Jhan, Christian Jennings, Mimosa Martini and Victor Lodato, writers and reporters who have tried to interpret tensions and evocations expressed by the images. Icons or Idols? is, finally, the question we ask authors of RVM#5 Portfolio and Picture in a Frame: Luca Donnini, with Corpus and Alexander Gronsky with a diptych taken from The City of Brides. The scenario changes with Retrospettiva. Through Phillip Toledano images, the section explores the horizon of a photographer able to range from photography to painting and installation: from Gamers to Bankrupt, from Days with my Father to A New Kind of Beauty. Among the columns, Archivio Segreto, a journey into the archive of a master of photography, tells the story of Donna Ferrato. InterView meets Donald Weber on the eve of the publication of his new book Interrogations. PhotoBiz dialogues with Magnum photographer and Burn Magazine founder David Alan Harvey about the new routes of photojournalism in time of web. LimeLight, venturing into the territory of dynamic photography, interviews Gianni Troilo, photographer and director of photography at his first movie. Finally, RVM Brand New Talent, a contest dedicated to photographers who publish their work for the first time. Selected by a jury composed by RVM staffers, Anna Luccarini (picture editor, Ventiquattro magazine), Nazario Dal Poz, (professor and coordinator of the Scuola Romana di Fotografia) and Pietro Masturzo (World Press Photo of the Year 2009 winner), Federico Gargaglione made his publishing debut, with the project Beyond Happiness, on RVM #5.