Marina Ballo CHARMET
“A sacred subject is the everyday one – the ‘always seen’, ‘the background noise in our minds’. My view is characterized by a perceptual mobility, out of focus and sideways – similar to a childlike vision, which reconstitutes a fluctuating vision, a ‘peripheral awareness’, not centrally related to our preconceptions. A vision opposite to anthropocentrism.”
Frank DITURI
Images of motion express ethereal
Livio MANCINI
“I go back to places I know, but they are changing. I know these places, but they are new to me at the same time. So I realized that the horizon is a mental line that I was starting to visualize in terms of experience, in terms of knowledge, dreams and so on.”
Mauro BENEDETTI
“I love photographing Rome, it is the city I live in and where I experience the daily tension between the ancient backbone and the need to accommodate the contemporary flow.”
A March 2015 conference at the American Academy of Rome addresses the role of Photography in Italian Art History
By Amanda SZTEIN
A brief look at Alinari, the hub of photography, its preservation and evolution from the dawn of the art itself
Rochelle Cheever
“PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ART OF STORYTELLING WITHOUT WORDS; GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY NOT ONLY INCORPORATES ALL THE OBVIOUS TECHNICAL SKILLS, BUT ALSO, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT CONVEYS EMOTION.”
By Nicoletta LEONARDI
Two historical examples include Marie Sophie and Ghitta Carrell
By Ludovica ROSSI PURINI
An interview with Mario Peliti
By Gianluca MARZIANI
Italian photography never disappoints: years pass and new names are added to the landscape of talent that is constantly emerging.
