Audioteca Fotográfica

Females is the story I have been telling for about fourteen years about the women in my family, from the youngest to the oldest. A story about the poetics of the passing of time, about the succession of the seasons of life, about death and life intimately intertwined, but also about Sicily, which becomes the stage on which the deep and ancient relationships that bind these women are depicted. Sici...

Ornella Mazzola is a photographer based in Palermo, Sicily. She studied at the University La Sapienza of Rome Cinema-documentary, "Visual Anthropology". Degree subject is Visual Anthropology, with a thesis developed with the documentary-director Vittorio De Seta. She started to explore the world of photography, naturally, from the visual research to socio-anthropological aspect inherent in it. She...

It is important to distinguish between series and sequence. A book that is a simple series will always be boring. The book must have an internal sequence, and the text, if there is any, must be part of that sequence. In the series, the images are related by their visual similarity. In the sequence, the relationship is not apparent, but internal, so the relationship is not apparent until you read t...

José Manuel Navia was born in Madrid in 1957. He was an editorial photographer from the age of 17 (1974) to 30 (1987). In 1979, at the age of 22, he married Carmen Martín. In 1980, at the age of 23, he graduated in Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and became the father of his first son: Manuel Navia. In 1987, at the age of 30, he left editorial photography and became a freelance ph...

For this project, HUN (published by Dalpine, 2024), I have been photographing for 12 years. This project contains my entire career and development as a photographer. The images span digital to analogue, colour to b/w, 35mm to 120mm, still imagery to frame grabs from filming. I’ve experimented with cyanotype, with anthotype, with still lives and staged photography, with drawing on the images, with...

Julia’s work explores family mythologies. Through her practice, she unravels the intricate stories and narratives that shape our familial connections, revealing the profound impact they have on our identities and perceptions of self. Julia’s exploration of family mythologies is sometimes a journey that start from self-discovery and introspection, inviting viewers to reflect on their own familial e...

The Portuguese word “Saudade” refers to that bittersweet feeling of longing, melancholy, desire, and nostalgia for a beloved yet absent person or place. I spent my adolescent years in Brazil, mostly in remote parts of Minas Gérais and Goiás. Although I moved to Rio as soon as I finished my studies in Europe, it was those formative pre-teen and teenage years, surrounded by forests, rivers and cattl...

I have an instinctive, open-ended and subjective approach to the people and locations that I photograph. I photograph freely, with an open heart and mind. Later, after I’ve had the time to reflect on the images I’ve taken, I like to weave the photographs together to create non-linear, intuitive narratives. My work often explores the idea of identity, belonging, home and memory. The images are freq...

We live in a delicate moment in which our relationship with the environment is compromised by a series of nostalgic memories and the tragic fate of contemporary truth. My photographic research, through portraits and landscapes, aims to deepen this spatio-temporal relationship between human beings and nature, which is inseparable from the emotional awareness of the spirit. The play of chromatic val...

Maurizio Bavutti is a full-time photographer based in Italy. Maurizio’s interest in photography began during his film studies in Spain. Since then he has worked with analogue photography, in color and black and white, through portraits and landscapes, developing a romantic and nostalgic vision of the contemporary world. After finishing his studies in media, which he attended between Italy, Spain a...

It's challenging for me to talk about my pictures at the moment; I'm in the middle of a whirlwind, that's for sure; a whirlwind that I created myself. I want to focus on the kind of photo that made me be able to say; I am an artist. Honest and straightforward photography, I find myself doing exactly the same kind of photography I was doing 20 years ago: uncomplicated photos, where composition does...

Self-taught photographer, lives and works in Guatemala City. After working in New York as a fashion photographer for over a decade, Brenner returned to his native Guatemala where he began making work about the people and complex territory in the country’s Western Highlands. Juan uses photography to reflect on the fluidity and abstract nature of identity and territory, his images capture the comple...

Grucho is a typical gaucho. He was born and raised on the island of Las Lechiguanas, Argentina. Here, everything exists within a perfect red line where the real and the fantastic coexist. Grucho knows his land inch by inch, literally. His connection to it is deep and visceral, to the point that it is as obvious to him as it is to us to have sensation in the extremities of our bodies. He can feel w...

Giacomo Bruno is an Italian photographer born in 1991 based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He produces personal projects on life, craft and agriculture, providing insights into how rural areas develop and survive across the globe. He started as assistant photographer straight after high school, working in two advertising and product photography studios until 2013, when he decided to take his own path fo...

I have written that photography is creating a new esthetic. This is based not only on perspective and plastic form as expressed by the lens but also on the new subject matter made possible in our age by science. When the first stroboscopic photographs were exhibited, it was evident that in them was to be seen a real hyperreality, a true fantasy beyond what the subconscious could concoct. Some of A...

Berenice Abbott was a central figure in and important bridge between the photographic circles and cultural hubs of Paris and New York. She was born in Springfield, Ohio, and in 1918 moved to New York, where she studied sculpture independently, meeting and making vital connections with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, leaders of the American avant-garde. In 1921, Abbott moved to Paris and continued her...

SECRET CITY (1981-1985) I was so carried away by photography that in 1983, I quit my job, left my wife, and struck out on my own... a free entity. I worked under contract for various Soviet publishing houses (wherever I could really) so that I would not starve and could pay to support my sons. The only thing I didn´t change was my camera; I still had the ‘Iskra’. I knew that you couldn’t earn a li...

What are these photographs about? Why were they taken? Who are they for? I started “taking” photographs as a schoolboy in 1963 and ended my youthful experiments in 1966, when I entered the Aeronautic Institute, never thinking I would return to this way of seeing the world. The next bit seems like a cliché! When my son Vadim was born, I tried taking some photos with the old Voigtländer 6x9cm, which...

Photography is a real obsession; I feed it with my experiences, encounters, readings, etc. I build myself up thanks to it and what it makes me discover. It has a lot to do with my practice and who I am as a person. My method is that of a documentary photographer, for whom research and reality are essential. On the other hand, I have total freedom in terms of the length of the shot, the interpretat...

Yannick Cormier was born in 1975 in France. In 1999 he joined the studio Astre in Paris. During this period he worked as an assistant for Patrick Swirc, William Klein and many others for magazines such as Vogue, Flair, Elle, Vanity Fair. Then he began a career as a documentary photographer and his images have been published in various international magazines (OjodePez, Courrier international, Libé...

Before I go out my daughters brush my hair. I am sitting down. They adjust it with their little hands. I feel their touch. The smell of their breath. My daughters say goodbye to me. They know I'm leaving. You mustn't show us sadness. Do it gently. Build a place in time where we can always return. The three of us. My legs are heavy. But no, it doesn't happen like this. I would have liked to. I don'...

I was born in the former Yugoslavia, but I have been living and working in France since 2002. I come from a proletarian family from a country that no longer exists, which is perhaps why I return regularly, in search of that human reality that allows me to connect with my roots, with the sole purpose of confirming that it did exist. Among the workers and miners, I have rediscovered the values on wh...

There is no denying it. I am an incurable romantic. I am convinced that emotion is a central element of the photograph. Paradoxical as it is, emotion itself is not a visible property of the image. It is something that the viewer attaches or projects to it. Photographer can never transfer her or his inner feelings to the viewer. The viewer is an independent human being. Formal esthetic and technica...

There is no denying it. I am an incurable romantic. I am convinced that emotion is a central element of the photograph. Paradoxical as it is, emotion itself is not a visible property of the image. It is something that the viewer attaches or projects to it. Photographer can never transfer her or his inner feelings to the viewer. The viewer is an independent human being. Formal esthetic and technica...

With Spina Americana (American Spine in Latin), I am attempting to determine what the people, and their land, of the Central U.S. have to do with contributing towards what I consider to be the “national character” of this country. In this current political climate, where seclusion and division have gained the upper hand in the national psyche, it is my aim to find the unifying elements not only as...