“Reality is constantly changing and is always a step ahead of us. What I find hard to change is our way of looking at it, our ability to interpret and act accordingly. Photography, however, can help our gaze to grasp what we normally do not see”. These are the words of the mayor of Reggio [...]

A striped sofa and a mannequin covered with gold, crushed plastic bottles and empty jars of glass. But above all, a vintage pinball Explorer, fully functional. Nino Migliori is playing while I am looking around taking some photos to the archive, those black boxes in perfect order containing a life as an artist. And before [...]

Sergej Prokudin was born in 1863 and studied chemistry with Dmitrji Mendeleev (the inventor of the Periodic Table, to be clear); when the latter one founded a photograph society, the young Prokudin became fond of photography and in the late nineteenth century, exploiting his studies, became in fact one of the pioneers of color photography. [...]

“When you try, in a space, to photograph a subject and the subject is the space itself, it happens that one moves, looks far, near and makes some strange movements as if it were a dance, enacts a sort of gesture as that of a diviner who goes looking for something that cannot be seen [...]

Shots from the recent trip of “Sun and snow” in NYC for a presentations tour.   www.fermoeditore.it

Giovanni Amoretti’s story is the story of a family. Story that begins with a photographer father – Armando – that left us the amazing report about Parma barricades in 1922. And this is the beginning of an archive of thousands films and images that is still alive, growing, which is a unique treasure chest of [...]

Vivian Maier was born in 1926 and died in Chicago in 2009. She was 83. The photos this woman took during her life have been displayed to public for the first time in 2010: one year after her death. What a story Mrs Maier’s one; when I read it for the first time I could [...]