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Tag: Hidden Islam

  • Publishing is a way of doing politics, for someone who does not know how to do it. In memory of Goffredo Fofi

    Yesterday, aged 88, Goffredo Fofi passed away. He was one of the most influential and prolific Italian intellectuals and critics of the post-war era, writing constantly movie, theater and book reviews, founding a publishing house, as well as a string of magazines throughout his life such as “Quaderni piacentini”, “La Terra vista dalla Luna” (The…

  • Nicolò Degiorgis

    Giulia Gregnanin, Flash Art Italia Nicolò Degiorgis (Bolzano, 1985) indaga concetti quali l’alterità, la condizione di straniero e le geografie periferiche attraverso un linguaggio fotografico ai limiti con il reportage. I suoi scatti, caratterizzati da vibrazioni intime e atmosfere sospese, non rientrano all’interno della mera cronaca documentaristica. Strumenti di mappatura e documentazione, sono inglobati in…

  • Behind the Frame: Prayer and Protest in Italy

    Interview and additional text by Ray MurphyPort Magazine https://www.port-magazine.com/art-photography/behind-the-frame-islam-in-italy Nicolò Degiorgis explains the story behind this striking image of a mass prayer protest in northern Italy Hailing from the autonomous Italian province of South Tyrol, photographer Nicolò Degiorgis first began documenting the wave of Muslim migrants arriving in the country’s north east in 2009, for…