Francesca Todde
IUZZA. Goliarda Sapienza
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IUZZA by Francesca Todde tells the story of an encounter, a night sea crossing in search of Goliarda Sapienza. “Iuzza” is the loving childhood nickname given to the writer back in Sicily, where she comes to world in 1924. The crooked symmetry betwee her biography and work is filled with invisible presences: the vigor of her literary adventure resembles a treasure salvaged from a wreckage.
Starting from Sapienza’s novels, poems, short stories, letters, and personal records, IUZZA unravels as an intimate journey triggered by antagonistic forces, subverting the nature of forms and turning words into images. The sequence of images consists of seven sections that operate through temporal displacement, textual references, and concatenated events. Each part originates from an indirect dialogue with its own absence, as a sort of telepathic exchange through empty space aimed a magnifying the perception of emotional connections. Francesca Todde’s photographs are like inner landscapes, or animated spaces leaping across the blurred lines of memory. Her gaze through the lens seems to open on a deserted bustle, following faded footprints up to their origin, which is childish and ancestral, animal and mineral: these images are traces haunted by thefeeling that body is everywhere.
(From the Afterword by Luca Reffo)
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Images: Francesca Todde
Texts: Luca Reffo
French translation: Nathalie Castagné
English translation: Marina Calvaresi
165x230 mm | 280 pages
Italian, French, English
Linnen hard cover with cardboard slipcase
Offset CMYK
Fedrigoni Arena White Rough 120 g/m² | Fedrigoni Sirio Black 140 g/m²
Cover on Peyer Linesse Zartgelb 20302
Printed in Italy by Longo spa
First edition 1500 copies
ISBN 978-88-947598-7-7
This book received the support of
Collezione Donata Pizzi.
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Francesco Merlini
Better in the Dark Than His Rider
45 € EUR
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October 2023
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Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
Book Award 2024
Longlist Photography
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Book Award 2024
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Born out of a reflection on the nature of images and their nocturnal vocation, Better in the Dark than His Rider is both a fable and a survival guide. The collected work by Francesco Merlini spans different years, possibly quite distant from one other; shot in all four continents, his pictures reveal the unique perspective of someone who, like a sleepwalker guided by ghosts, seeks for something nameless. The title is drawn, almost literally, from a 19th century manual of optics. The original sentence – “[…] much better in the dark than his rider” – refers to a horse’s night vision compared to a human’s.
The selected sequence of pictures unravels around the transitional stage between wakefulness and sleep, engaging with hypnagogia as a sensory yet dreamlike mode of semiconscious representation. Images make up mind’s psychic contents. If in dreams self-consciousness is suspended and images look real to the extent that we are sleeping, when dozing we can consciously guide them because partially aware that we are dreaming. Stated otherwise, in lucid dreams we know we are faced with the contents of our imagination, whose edges appear hallucinatory. Dreaming is a perpetual state we do experience both asleep and awake. Thanks to imagination, the dream matter turns into the mind’s real object again.
“Better in the Dark than His Rider by Francesco Merlini is a creative meditation on the sense of sight drawn together from seemingly unrelated images from the artist’s extended archive. There is a visual sumptuousness to this publication which is enhanced by an approach to the sequencing and design, guided by a sensitive, original reading of colour. This is an expertly achieved photobook, conceptually and aesthetically.”
Anthony Luvera
Juror for Kraszna-Krausz Book Award 2024
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23,5x31cm
80 pages
Hardback with embossing on jacket
Black printed page edges
Offset CMYK + UV
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Fedrigoni Sirio Nero 140 g/m²
Wibalin Natural Slate 120 g/m²
Wibalin Natural Petal 120 g/m²
Printed in Italy by Longo spa
First Edition July 2023
Second Edition October 2023
ISBN 978 88 944622 8 9
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Tout va bien by Vera Muratet, bordering between art and photography, is not a book for children but by a 10-year-old girl. Inspired by 19th century science books, it is a talking bestiary populated only by very young animals, in accordance with the secret affinity between portrait and self-portrait. In the book, photographs by her father Myr Muratet provide a backstory to Vera's drawings. With an essay by François Chiron.
11x15,5cm
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114 pages
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First edition of 1000 copies
ISBN 978 88 944622 9 6
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УYY is an acronym for Україна Yelena Yemchuk, meaning the Slavic word for «Ukraine» followed by the name of the Kyiv-born author of the present book. Given the misleading resemblance between У and Y, the title may at first appear to be «why-why-why».
The publishing project brings together the author's photographs, paintings and personal archive to bring out the essential elements of her wide-ranging and heterogeneous research. The story’s time is disjointed in fragmented visions, fleeting appearances, and shadow games.
Україна Yelena Yemchuk is like a daydream unfolding backwards. From last to first, each chapter provides a makeshift compass in order not to get lost in a maze of exceptions and coincidences.
The book is an invitation to escape from within the confines of common sense, to surrender to the vertigo of memory, to engage with the author in an inner and intimate dialogue through the image.
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17,5x24,5 cm
Hard cover with embossing
Dust jacket
Offset UV
160 pages
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ISBN 9788894462258
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Francesca Todde
A Sensitive Education
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With A Sensitive Education the photographer Francesca Todde explores, through the figure of bird educator Tristan Plot, the possibilities of empathy between different natural species. The narrative, far from being a naturalist documentation, is rather focused on the emotional sphere and sensitivity of birds and humans. The photographic research develops in resonance with the delicacy of this wordless dialogue.
Tristan is a bird educator specialist in soft methods. He prepares birds for participation in theatre and dance performances or film documentaries. He also works on the new concept of ornitotherapy and mediation through the animal, creating contact between birds and people with disabilities, the elderly, prisoners, in order to promote new sensations and create a deep reconciliation between birds and humans.
When he was a child, in the forest behind his parents’ house in the Touraine, Tristan noticed that, if he remained still for a long time, the animals came out of the vegetation and it was possible to observe them. Even today, this practice of slow approach, respecting the rhythm of nature, remains essential to his educational method. Since he studied ecology, biology and ethology at the university, he developed an educational technique at the intersection of imprinting, traditional training and positive training. His method is a set of observation and predisposition of mind in harmony with the environment, according to the sensitivity of the other and in relation to expression and behavior codes which are different from the human ones. Tristan, through the intuition of animality as something delicate, subtle and minimal, defines the relationship with birds as an exclusive bond able to reconcile the rhythm of the species with the individual one. His research is based on the understanding of the sensitivity of birds and aims to recover that ability, which got lost over the course of evolution, of perceiving the minimal variations and micro movements that are the expressive world of animals.
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PVF Helsinki
ARCOOP wall project Geneve
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Hand numbered
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112 pages
155x215 mm
Hard Cover
4-color offset with UV inks
First Edition January 2020
300 numbered copies
Second Edition May 2021
500 numbered copies
Publisher: Départ Pour l’Image,
ISBN 978 88 944622 2 7