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Author Archive: Walter Borghisani
Book Review: Beautiful, Still. by Colby Deal
Third Ward is one of 4 wards that originally made up the city of Houston, Texas, in the 1800s. Historically, whites lived in the southern part of the Third Ward, while African Americans were economically segregated and lived north of the Third Ward. In the 1930s, the black and white populations of the Third Ward
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Location: Online Type: Black and White, Book Review, Portraits
Book Review: East of Nowhere by Fabio Ponzio
During these last months, because of the war in Ukraine and its horrors, I have thought a lot about wars, about the weak. I think of the losers. I think of the east as a geographical place and, above all, as an idea. An idea that has always belonged to me. The East has always
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Location: Online Type: Book Review
EXHIBITION: TA|DA|RÀ|NU. A Sardinian story between ethnography and anthropology.
Sardinia is a magnetic, ancient, ancestral land. A raw land that, behind its apparent dryness, hides ancient forests and sincere gazes. Sardinia is a land that hypnotizes, overwhelms. “Kidnaps”. Ritual. Religious. An island whose magnificent beaches and an unrivaled sea are little if compared to its heart, to what beats inside. A
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Location: Online Type: Exhibition
BOOK REVIEW: Sonata by Aaron Schuman
This is a different book. Or, at least, it is a photographic project which, to be fully appreciated, needs a specifically literary introduction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1749. He was a German writer, poet, playwright, essayist, but also painter, theologian, philosopher, humanist, scientist, art critic and music critic.
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Location: Online Type: Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: I Saw The Air Fly by Sirkhane Darkroom
Mardin is a city in southeastern Turkey, capital of the province of the same name. The Syrian territory opens up to the south of the province of Mardin. Its population is very heterogeneous and includes Arabs, Assyrians and Kurds. But above all refugees from the nearby war zones of Armenia, Iraq and, last in order
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Location: Online Type: Black and White, Book Review, charity, Children
Lab27: a place for meeting, discussion, study, training, exposure for photography
Every time I log into my smartphone I can’t help but think about how useful technology is but, at the same time, how easy it is to misuse it. At least questionable. Every time I access social networks I think about how essential it is to communicate but how it has become alienating to do
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Location: Italy, Online, Treviso Type: Exhibition, Museums
BOOK REVIEW: Steel Town by Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore is considered one of the most significant photographers of our time. Having approached photography at the age of only six, then influenced by the work of Walker Evans, he managed to attract attention to himself at the age of fourteen, when his work was purchased by Edward Steichen for the collection of the
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Documentary
Photography Museum Days 2021
PHmuseum is a curated platform created in 2012 focused on finding innovative ways to display photography and to engage, educate, and connect. PHmuseum has an online exhibition (first launched in 2013) and an online education component (the first lesson was launched in 2017; today its program goes from portfolio reviews, to workshops and masterclasses). It
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Location: Bologna, Italy Type: Exhibition, Festival
Book Review: Napoli Nord / Case Rom by Vincenzo Pagliuca
Vincenzo Pagliuca is a 40-year-old documentary photographer from southern Italy. In 2010, after graduating from the University of Naples with a degree in economics, he chose to focus full time on photography. Pagliuca’s photography focuses on the landscape/architecture relationship and on the relationship between human beings and housing structures. He finds rural and suburban environments
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Documentary
Book Review: A Place of Our Own by Iris Hassid
The Israeli territory is a region full of differences and contrasts which have always attracted the attention of Iris Hassid, a photographer from Tel Aviv who focuses her work on long-term projects related to identity, culture and the representation of a female viewpoint from different social backgrounds. In A Place of Our Own, Iris Hassid
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Documentary
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