"Rather than searching for ways around death and disappointment, the queer art of failure involves the acceptance of the finite, the embrace, of the absurd, the silly, and the hopelessly goofy. Rather than resisting endings and limits, let us instead revel in and cleave to all of our own inevitable fantastic failures" - J.J Halberstam (American Author & academic) “Failure is my project. ...

“Under this mask, another mask” – Claude Cahun I am a ghost, no one really knows me. What they make sense of is through these words, which they may read or scroll through based on their prejudices and privileges. But this is all I must share. The mask I had to adopt was first due to me being discarded by many and now this very mask is my sword. This “mask “ takes many forms in my work, and ...

America is not a dream. It is a land full of contradictions. It is as real as reality could get. And then in this vastness, is a chaotic spot, a mirage called New York. As Baudrillard once remarked, “the number of people here who think alone, sing alone, and eat and talk alone in the streets is mind-boggling. And yet they don’t add up. Quite the reverse. They subtract from each other and their ...

“Entirety exists within me as exuberance in an empty longing, in the desire to burn with desire” - Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche I am not just an observer, but also the very subject of this desire through which I seek the other. To photograph, for me, is to further this desire, to give it a semblance of love, an unspoken promise of togetherness, friendship, and intimacy. And to also come ...

“It troubles me that we carry her characteristics and traits. I’m comforted only by the fact that we have the capacity to love ourselves and others. No matter what she held back from us, we developed a conscience. I’ve yet to meet someone who can say the same thing about her. When I think of her, my thoughts consistently drift back to you. I did know her. I do remember her laughter, her smile, ...

We’re featuring what our Issue 15 guest editors have been up to since the issue was released at Paris Photo in November 2022. Each of our 50 guest editors on the issue selected an image by an artist from our international open call to feature in a spread next to an image of their own in Issue 15. To see their work in the issue, order your copy. Nine works from our guest editor Hoda Afshar’s ...

“I wouldn't allow myself to go through everything. She is dead. I can't ask her why she did this to us. Even if I could, would she be honest about it anyway? Why do I still want an answer? Why do I want you to have an answer? The memories waft in like a rancid smell and linger in the air, and I search for the source, but can't find it. As I begin to investigate, the scent dissipates. Yet, always ...

“I am struggling. If, at some point, this becomes rambling, forgive me. My thoughts are scattered as of late. You are the only person I share my thoughts with, and I know you will accept however this turns out. Last weekend, perusing through albums and paperwork I found of hers, I was again in a tug of war with our mother. I don't write out her name because that gives her form, and I don't want ...

My earliest memories are without my mother; she chose to physically abandon me for 16 years. Emotionally, for much longer. Our fleeting and estranged relationship ceased when she passed in late 2017. My curiosity, rage, grief, and empathy collide and swell alongside her archive I’ve amassed. I uncover and confront perceptions and symptoms of familial truths and hereditary traumata while gazing at ...

Previewed during the Fotografia Europea Festival in Reggio Emilia, Interno is now also available as a book published by Studio Faganel, an art gallery and publishing house. The book can be purchased from their website. The idea was to create a minimal and elegant product that, in keeping with the spirit of the work, was as open as possible. For this reason, there is no real beginning or end, ...

These are my first experiments in analogue manipulation, which respond to a need to establish a more material contact with my production. It is a form of extension of the increasingly close contact I seek with what I photograph. Touch is a decisive sense in experiencing the world, and it seems to offer me privileged and deeper access to things. After many years of working digitally, the ...

Still in the making and without a title, this work was taken on several trips to Sardinia. After the first lockdown was over, I started a collaboration with an American agency, taking virtual tours all over central Italy. In my free moments, I shot a lot without a precise direction, hungry for something new after months of confinement at home. Quickly, the focus shifted exclusively to that ...

A portrait of old age resulting from an artist's residency in a hospice in Matera on behalf of the social cooperative Il Sicomoro. Subterraneously guided by Giorgione's work (Vecchia), in which a scroll reads the words "Col tempo" (With Time), hence the title, I imagined a possible translation of the woman's harsh and dramatic gaze, which I found difficult to sustain for a long time. Despite ...

Our community members Federico “Monty” Kaplan and Marisol Mendez have both had their work featured in our Guest Rooms. Together they recently won the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 in the Professional Environmental Category for their series “Miruku”, which explores the intersection of climate vulnerability and gender inequality. Through a compelling series of images, it portrays the struggles ...

Initially commissioned by the Napoli Teatro Festival Foundation and later completed during the Roma Europa Festival, Ouverture is a project that portrays the spectators before the beginning of the show. It takes the shape of a reversal of meaning, in which the public becomes the protagonist of a hypothetical, ambiguous, and unlocatable performance. Consistent with my photographic practice, I ...

Interno is ideally an open work in which, without using a script, I tried to construct a story made up of images alone. Wandering through many interior spaces, hence the title, until losing the sense of the perimeter, letting the photographs suggest hypothetical stories one after the other through free associations. I was intrigued by the idea of giving life to a mysterious universe generated ...

Historically the Thames is how people from Europe and the rest of the world came to London; it has been one of the most important trading points on the globe. It’s an area of docks, farmland and Industry that attracts people from all over Europe. The first picture I made for this project is on the Hoo peninsular; it’s close to London but felt so remote; the thing that struck me was nature, its ...