On Tuesday 14 May, at 6.30 p.m., the cycle of meetings dedicated to independent publishing returns to CAMERA’s Bookshop. This time, it features a meeting with Edicola 518 and Metronimìe to investigate the relationship between words and images.

 

Speakers:
Antonio Brizioli, founder of Edicola 518
Alessandra Racca, Metronimìe
Giulia Ninotta, coordinator of the review

 

Participation is free but reservations are recommended.
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On Tuesday 9 April, at 6.30 p.m., CAMERA’s Bookshop will once again host the new series of meetings dedicated to independent publishing. For its second meeting, the publishing collective Shibboleth will be present.

The Shibboleth publishing collective produces projects aimed at an alternative education, based more on image than text, using the fanzine as a medium. These ‘visual notebooks’ arise from social projects with communities characterised by theuse of unconventional language due to cognitive deficits or limited access to education due to socio-political difficulties. Emic Units, the first publication produced, is a collection of 50 zines on the migration of ideas, which emerged from long-term research into the expressive possibilities of the image.

 

Speakers:
Allegra Baggio Corradi, founder of Shibboleth
Giulia Ninotta, coordinator of the review

 

Participation is free but reservations are recommended.
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On Tuesday, March 19, at 6.30pm, CAMERA’s Bookshop will kick off the new series of meetings dedicated to independent publishing.

The first guests of Letti in CAMERA, are Sofia Schubert and Edi Guerzoni, founder and co-founder of  Altremuse, a popular Instagram page that, after three years of activity in the online universe, becomes a print magazine, dedicating the first issue of the new editorial format “to the many Antiquities of art history”.

 

Speakers
Sofia Schubert, founder and co-editor in chief Altremuse
Edi Guerzoni, co-founder and co-editor in chief Altremuse
Giulia Ninotta, coordinator of the review

 

Participation is free but reservations are recommended.
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Directed by the American filmmaker Joris Ivens, with the extraordinary participation of Ernest Hemingway as author and narrator, The Spanish Earth (USA, 1937, 52′) tells about the Spanish Civil War and its impact on peasant life.
In the protagonists and in the landscapes we recognise the figures and atmospheres of Robert Capa and Gerda Taro‘s photographs. The Spanish conflict is the scene of their best-known shots but, tragically, also the circumstance of the photographer’s death, which occurred following an accident during a hasty retreat to Brunete. Like Capa and Taro, director Joris Ivens also decided to go to Spain to witness and document the conflict between republicans and fascists. After a first stop in Madrid besieged by the Francoists, Ivens travelled to Paris where he met Ernest Hemingway, special envoy of the North American News Alliance. The text written by Hemingway as a commentary on the images contributed to the film’s success, making the crude reality of the Spanish war known internationally.

 

The screening is in collaboration with AIACE Torino and ANCR – Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza.

 

With the participation of:
Enrico Verra, director of AIACE Torino
Walter Guadagnini, artistic director of CAMERA and co-curator of the exhibition

 

The talk costs 3,00€
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The documentary The Mexican Suitcase by Trisha Ziff (Berlin-Mexico, 2011, 86′) is the story of the journey of an important suitcase containing precious photographic rolls – taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour.  The story of this suitcase has the traits of a true international detective story: it disappeared in France at the end of the 1930s and incredibly reappeared in Mexico at the end of the 1990s.

 

With the participation of:
Monica Poggi, CAMERA curator and co-curator of the exhibition

 

The talk costs 3€.
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The talk of 18 April will analyse war photography starting from the social, technological and stylistic transformations that have involved it in recent decades.

Starting from the Spanish Civil War – an event photographed by Robert Capa and Gerda Taro – up to the present day, the narrative strategies implemented by a language that still plays a central role in the telling of reality will be investigated.

 

With the participation of
Walter Guadagnini, artistic director of CAMERA and co-curator of the exhibition
Monica Poggi, curator of CAMERA and co-curator of the exhibition

 

The admission is free and the talk is part of the Biennale Tecnologia programme.

A Magnum Photos agency member since 1976, of which she is now President, Susan Meiselas won the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1978 for her Nicaragua project, an award given to photographic reportage requiring exceptional qualities of courage and resourcefulness. She has covered a wide range of topics in his work, from human rights issues to prostitution, from domestic violence to conflicts in Nicaragua, Kurdistan and Palestine. Her major awards include the Hasselblad Award, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

The talk of 24 April will be a moment to reflect on what role photography plays today in making the observer aware of the living conditions in the most marginalised realities of our planet.

 

With the participation of:
Susan Meiselas, photographer
Walter Guadagnini, artistic director of CAMERA and co-curator of the exhibition

 

The talk costs 3,00€
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Photojournalist Gabriele Micalizzi will meet CAMERA’s public on Thursday, March 14, to talk about what it means to be a war photojournalist today.

A 2019 survivor of a serious incident in Baghuz, Syria, Gabriele Micalizzi, one of the founders of the Cesura collective, has been a frontline witness to the great conflicts of our time: from Afghanistan to the red shirt revolution in Thailand, from the Arab Spring to Libya, from Iraq to Syria, from Ukraine to Palestine.

 

With the participation of:
Gabriele Micalizzi, photojournalist
Monica Poggi, CAMERA’s curator and co-curator of Robert Capa e Gerda Taro‘s exhibition

 

The talk costs 3€.
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On Thursday, March 21, CAMERA is pleased to once again host Francesca Mannocchi: a war reporter, journalist and writer who deals with migration and conflict and collaborates with Italian and international newspapers. She has made reportages in many countries, including Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Yemen, and is now a correspondent on the Palestinian front.

The dialogue between Monica Poggi, curator of the exhibition Robert Capa and Gerda Taro: photography, love, war, and Francesca Mannocchi intends to explore the role of the journalist in the telling of reality, the search for truth and the relationship between information and the image, creating a trait d’union with the work carried out by Capa and Taro during the Spanish War in the 1930s.

 

With the participation of:
Francesca Mannocchi, journalist
Monica Poggi, CAMERA’s curator and co-curator of Robert Capa e Gerda Taro‘s exhibition

 

The talk costs 3€.
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Michele Pellegrino was born in 1934 under the Alps, in Chiusa di Pesio (Cuneo, Italy) and is a photographer of mountains, their landscapes and people. A world that today – between climate change and depopulation – is rapidly changing.

The talk will focus on his life and creative journey: the hard work in the fields, the experience of the Nazi-Fascist occupation, his encounter with photography and the many projects with which he has portrayed and narrated his land.

 

With the participation of:
Michele Pellegrino, photographer
Mario Calabresi, journalist
Barbara Bergaglio, CAMERA Archives Manager and curator of the exhibition

 

The talk costs 3€
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