S. GRAZIANI, J. BENASSI, A. SPRANZI, F. ROMANO, J. P. CORTES
Master in Photography / Viaggio in Italia
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The editorial project Master in Photography / Viaggio in Italia–composed of four photographic zines and two posters–gathers the outcomes of the 2021, 2022, and 2023 activities of the Master in Photography at the IUAV University in Venice. Presented in its itinerant and experimental form, the project involved a series of residencies across Italy dedicated to photography, designed and structured in collaboration with guest lecturers to strengthen the relationship with the context and with Italy's social and natural landscape. The Master in Photography proposed a geographical exploration that also became metaphorical, crossing different grounds and distant territories. The group, composed of participants, lecturers and the people they met along the way, forms a context of permanent discussion and growth. The editorial project is a co-edition by Viaindustriae, ICCD, a+mbookstore, lUAV University in Venezia and Master in Photography cultural association. Over the past five years, the ICCD has become a valuable partner for all those involved, by offering access to its photographic archive and, through these publications, identifying a form of permanence – conceptual and concrete – of the experiences. The four published issues are dedicated to four different workshops; in each residency, the instructors presented an initial research theme from which the students developed a personal project. All of the residencies took place through a multi-vocal conversation in collaboration with institutions and realities spread throughout the territory. The four published issues are dedicated to four different workshops; in each residency, the instructors presented an initial research theme from which the students developed a personal project. All of the residencies took place through a multi-vocal conversation in collaboration with institutions and realities spread throughout the territory .Stefano Graziani and Emanuele De Donno curated the residency Roma subalterna, with the aim of investigating the utopia of drafting a guide to the city, drawing on unpublished bibliographies, exo-editorial models, neighbourhood guides of the capital, and adventure diaries. Spettri, the publication dedicated to Villa Manin, with Jacopo Benassi and curated by Saul Marcadent, envisaged a polyphonic collective journey where photography is to be understood as a permeable language in dialogue with performance, sound, and publishing. Filippo Romano’s Paradigma naturale places nature at the centre of the narrative, articulating a taxonomy of stories in images, collected in the freest manner. In the same issue, José Pedro Cortes’ workshop A Future Ruin perhaps most explicitly presents a reflection on time: everything in the images immediately becomes a ruin, a (non-decisive) instant to which one never returns. Senza preavviso, the fanzine dedicated to Gibellina hosts the visual research of Alessandra Spranzi, who has paused to observe, with her delicate gaze, some ordinary aspects of life in an attempt to find her own possible point of observation.