Moa Moa Pasta Club opens in historic building in Ho Chi Minh City
 
Moa Moa Pasta Club is located within a historic apartment building in a dense city-center neighborhood in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Designed by The Lab Saigon, the restaurant occupies a compact interior that connects the existing architectural framework of the building with a contemporary dining environment centered on culinary production and material detail.
 
The spatial sequence begins at the entrance, where an open pasta laboratory replaces the conventional reception area. Positioned directly at the front of the restaurant, the glass-enclosed workspace allows visitors to observe the preparation of fresh pasta. The visible process of...

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Animal sculptures double as concept power lines in austria
 
Concept power lines shaped as animal sculptures can supply energy across the nine states in Austria. Dubbed the Austrian Power Giants, these electricity structures are molded depending on the animal representing the state. Take the stork, a long-necked wading bird, which represents Burgenland for its annual stork migration, with Rust being considered a city of storks. Then, there’s the stag, the animal symbol for the wooded foothills of the Alps in Lower Austria. The nine federal states where the design teams hope to install the power lines shaped as animal sculptures include Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria,...

For much of the past decade, the art market behaved as though history had stopped. Collectors and speculators chased the wet paint with missionary zeal, convinced that the next studio visit might yield a future masterpiece (or a tidy return when flipped onto the secondary market). Auction houses obliged, turning evening sales into pageants for artists who barely had time to form a reputation. That fever appears to have broken, according to the latest Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, written by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. While the global art market returned to modest growth last year, reaching an estimated $59.6 billion in sales—a 4 percent increase after two years of decline—auction...

biennial of sydney shows textile work of ema shin
 
At the 2026 edition of the Biennale of Sydney, artist Ema Shin debuts a monumental embroidered heart, an enlarged version of a form that has defined her practice for years. Suspended within the exhibition space, the piece occupies the room with a soft mass of red and white textiles. Dense embroidery traces arteries and vessels across the surface, while clusters of beads and pearls gather along the contours. Even with this ambitious new scale, it maintains the tactile intimacy of Shin’s smaller works.
 
The work appears almost anatomical. Bulging chambers rise from the top of the form while branching red threads suggest a network of arteries. Thousands of...

The Brooklyn Museum has announced Keisha Scarville as the winner of its sixth UOVO Prize. Scarville, who investigates themes of migration, memory, loss, and absence through a practice encompassing photography, collage, and archival material, will receive an unrestricted $25,000 cash grant as well as a public exhibition at the museum’s Iris Cantor Plaza, and a commission to create a large-scale work on the façade […]

A federal lawsuit alleges that a government initiative created by the Trump administration relied on the generative AI software ChatGPT to help identify grants tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The lawsuit alleges that a grant awarded to the High Point Museum in North Carolina to replace its HVAC system was flagged as related to DEI and subsequently canceled. According to a report by Fox 8 News, High Point received s $349,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to replace outdated climate-control equipment used to preserve its collections. The funding was later canceled after staff working for the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, reviewed grant proposals with...

The International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina, has officially acquired a set of 15 daguerreotypes, dating to 1850, that scholars believe to be the earliest known photographs taken of enslaved Americans. The seven enslaved people photographed for the series are identified as Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty; Renty and Delia were father and daughter, respectively, as were Jack and Drana. “The 1850 Daguerreotypes,” as the IAAM is now calling the collection, were taken by J. T. Zealy in South Carolina, where the sitters had been enslaved, more than 175 years ago, and just over a decade after the invention of the daguerreotype. The images show each subject...

The 2026 Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report, published on March 12, revealed an upturn in fortunes for the global art market, with total sales rising by 4 percent from the previous year to $59.6 billion. Although this is still below the 2022 peak of $67.8 billion, it marked an improvement after two years […]

In 1876, in an office on Manhattan's Nassau Street, with a mighty staff of three, the first legal aid organization dedicated to defending low-income people in the United States was born.Within its first year, the nascent organization, then called the German Legal Aid Society, would represent 212 immigrants who could not afford a lawyer. By the end of its first decade, it would help recover today's equivalent of $3.6 million in wages for German immigrants. And just a few years later, it would shorten its name to Legal Aid Society and expand its mandate beyond newcomers to New Yorkers more broadly.Today, 150 years after representing its first case, the Legal Aid Society is the United States's...

ATHENS, Ga. — Beverly Buchanan, who died in 2015 at age 74, was an artist, writer, joke-teller, gardener, nurse, pharmacist, doctor, healer, disability activist, customer, futurist, and neighbor. She is perhaps best known for her representational sculptures of “shacks,” also known as “row” or “shotgun" houses. Her work as a whole is more difficult to categorize — across many media, she articulated nuanced understandings of land, architecture, and placed-based making that probed themes of class, gender, and identity. Buchanan lived in North Carolina, New York, and Florida, but spent a good number of years here in Athens, Georgia, where she became a beloved community member — while never...

One day, it will have to be told how the Antideutsch movement — ostensibly born as an anti-fascist rejection of German nationalism in the late 1980s — became an engine of Islamophobia and genocide denial, and thereby cleared the way, however heroic its self-image, for the insidious return of fascist policies.It took the American critic Clement Greenberg 20 years to retroactively describe the 1930s anti-Stalinist Trotskyism as having evolved, by the 1950s, into a triumphalist liberalism disguised as “art for art’s sake.” Today, a similar dialectic unfolds.After two years of overwhelming global condemnation over Western support for the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza, the strained performance...

Beyond his famous chair design, Friedeberg created a singular world of ornament, architecture, and irony

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I’ve been to art school, had a few shows, but can’t seem to find gallery representation. I’m working all the time on my art and career, but the whole gallery thing eludes me. Why? Frustrated and galleryless in New York I get asked this question more than any other, and frankly, the answer could fill a book, but what’s missing from this question is why you want a gallery and what kind of relationship will help your practice? The most obvious reason to seek representation is the promise of exhibitions and sales. Many gallery contracts also include guarantees for art fair participation. It may seem obvious, but you have to want sales to secure a gallery, and for a gallery to take you on, you should have...

When the Victoria and Albert Museum’s newest branch, known as the V&A East, opens in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London next month, visitors will be greeted by a monumental sculpture by the London-based artist Thomas J Price. A Place Beyond, an 18-foot-tall bronze figure, stands to the left of the museum entrance and is Price’s tallest sculpture to date. Like many of Price’s most well-known pieces, A Place Beyond depicts a young Black person in casual, contemporary dress. She is holding a cell phone—also a recurring attribute in Price’s work—and calmly looking out into the distance, her face coolly vacant, her pose almost regal. According to a statement from the museum, the woman in...

In the summer of 2024, a dazzling “Blue Room” emerged from the ashes of Pompeii during the new and ongoing excavations within the central region (Regio IX) of the ancient Italian city. The striking Egyptian blue that covered its walls immediately indicated to archaeologists that the room was not an ordinary domestic space —  it likely served as a sacrarium, a shrine where Romans in the household could undertake rituals or store sacred objects. But how much money did these expensive pigments cost wealthy Romans? A new article published in the journal Heritage Science reveals the splendor of luxury paints and estimates the extravagant price of purchasing Egyptian blue to cover an entire room in the first...

On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator of the General Services Administration questioning the organization’s management of its Fine Arts Program and the Fine Arts Collection. The GSA cares for over 26,000 artworks and artifacts owned by the US government, including murals, paintings, sculptures, and environmental artworks by artists from Mark Rothko and Louise Nevelson to Jacob Lawrence and Philip Guston. In the letter, the senators note that the GSA has posted 46 buildings that have been identified for “accelerated disposal,” a process that expedites the sale of the properties, which are home to numerous...

KRK Ryden's latest solo show "Wet Bread" is now on view at Brassworks Gallery in Portland. Read an interview on the pop surrealist from our archives by clicking above!
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The artist collective allowed buyers to decide the fate of a cow’s life (thankfully they chose a sanctuary over the slaughterhouse), but the intended awareness-raising gave way to polarising digital discourse

At Windsor Castle, a one-of-a-kind architectural marvel isn’t a structural part of the building itself or even a full-size feature. Here, you’ll find Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, widely regarded as the largest and most famous in the world. Designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the house was built between 1921 and 1924 and contains items and furnishings conceived of by hundreds of the leading craftspeople and artisans of the day. Queen Mary, consort to King George V between 1910 and 1936, was an enthusiast of all things miniature. Her dolls’ house even contains scale versions of nearly 600 real books in its library, including works by literary giants like A.A. Milne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO—Mexico News Daily reports that an eleventh skeleton has been found in the underground river and cave system that runs along the coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula. Archaeologist Octavio del Río of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said that some of the skeletons found in the cave system have been dated to some 13,000 years ago, and so would have been left there before the caves were flooded about 8,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. This skeleton was discovered on a dune of sediment about 26 feet below the surface, and more than 650 feet into the cave, where it had likely been carefully placed in an inner chamber. To read about the remains of a girl...

Samnite burial, Pontecagnano Faiano, Italy PONTECAGNANO FAIANO, ITALY—La Brújula Verde reports that the excavation of a necropolis in southwestern Italy by researchers from the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino has revealed 34 Samnite burials dated to between the fourth and third centuries B.C. The graves were grouped by family, and most of them consisted of a pit covered with tiles arranged like a small roof. Two of the burials had chambers lined with travertine blocks, while another had a tufa chamber. Graves holding the remains of men also contained spearheads or javelin points. Rings and brooches for fastening garments were recovered from...

Earthenware mug containing cache of gold rubles TORZHOK, RUSSIA—Live Science reports that a cache of 409 gold ruble coins stored in an earthenware mug was discovered by researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences in the foundation of a house in northwestern Russia. The coins were minted between 1848 and 1911, before the end of the Russian Empire and the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Most of the coins were minted during the reign of the last tsar, Nicholas II, and were worth 10 rubles each. Ten of the coins were worth five rubles, another 10 were worth 15 rubles each, and just two of the coins were worth 7.5 rubles, for a total value of 4,085 rubles in the cache. The researchers suggest that...

Joy Machine is pleased to present Life Forms, a solo exhibition by Janny Baek, on view from March 20 to May 9, 2026. How do we conceive of change? With fear, excitement, or uncertainty? As Janny Baek builds sculptural ceramics of speculative beings and imagined landscapes, she grapples with these questions. The work follows its own dream logic, one that accepts incongruity and dissonance as necessary to play and experimentation. Marbling hunks of colored clay, coiling bases, and molding a singular material into something new is part of an exploratory practice that embraces transformation and its often strange outcomes. Detail of “Dream State” (2024) Life Forms emerges from this dual meaning, invoking...

Paul&Albert’s Front Door Cabinet for the municipality of Assen
 
Dutch design duo Paul&Albert have created the Front Door Cabinet for the municipality of Assen in the Netherlands. The object organizes tools used by the city for communication and citizen participation while translating the architectural language of domestic front doors into a sculptural cabinet. Rather than designing a conventional storage unit, the project interprets the front door as a symbolic element of the relationship between private households and the public realm. Each door represents an entry point to a different domestic environment, marking the threshold between individual life and the shared space of the city.
 
The cabinet is...

On March 9, airstrikes by the US and Israel on the Iranian city of Isfahan damaged the Safavid-era Chehel Sotoun Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and other nearby cultural landmarks. While the Chehel Sotoun Palace was not directly targeted, the damage to it was likely caused by shock waves from missile strikes on the […]

Ben Luke talks to Sarvy Geranpayeh about the continuing violence in the Middle East, discusses the new Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report with its author Clare McAndrew, and speaks to our reporter in Australia, Elizabeth Fortescue, about a new installation at the Sydney Biennale.

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Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has been named the winner of the 2026 Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honor. Born in Santiago to a father and mother who immigrated there from Croatia and the United Kingdom, respectively, he is the second Chilean architect to win the award since it was established in 1979. Though he uses only his father’s […]

The trial comes after the conclusion of a decade-long investigation into the alleged disappearance of works belonging to Picasso's stepdaughter

What is a web to the spider? A home, a tool, simply something they cling to? Tomás Saraceno presents these questions in a new segment from Art21, in which filmmakers visit his Berlin studio and examine the machinations of his collaborative practice, extending from a team of people to the tiny critters beneath our feet. Saraceno continually considers how humans occupy space and how such environments inform the ways we connect with the world around us. This short documentary, which is part of the “Realms of the Real” episode, reviews several of the artist’s projects, from his suspended installations to his more participatory community projects. Several artworks presented in the film have been previously...

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Baritone Quinn Kelsey’s recital of English-language art songs in partnership with pianist Craig Ketter was a worthy celebration of Vocal Arts DC’s 35th-anniversary season.

“I never lost interest in the gestures or the faces of this dearest of families. It was here that I came of age and found my first true subject.” For almost thirty years, photographer Emmet Gowin captured personal and tender portraits of his wife, Edith Morris, and her extended family. The series, taken between 1966 and 1994, bears witness to the lives and relationships that shaped the artist over time. Through Gowin’s lens, images of Edith in her bedroom or on a ladder in the yard, of Reva and her sisters, children playing, lounging outside, and funeral onlookers, are captured with tangible care and compassion, reflecting the artist’s close relationship with these subjects. Now, Baldwin Street:...

Once owned by a US vice president, the print was acquired by the Shah’s wife and is now at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

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TROP designs residential park for housing complex
 
Yanlord The Park is a residential courtyard landscape designed by TROP for a high-density housing development in Shenzhen, China. Located between a cluster of residential towers, the project transforms a constrained ground plane into a layered garden promenade that supports daily community life. Instead of functioning as decorative greenery, the courtyard organizes circulation, gathering spaces, and planting into a three-dimensional landscape where residents can move, pause, and interact.
 
The site presented several typical urban challenges. Tall buildings restricted sunlight and views, while circulation routes occupied much of the available ground area,...

Christopher Purves in Saul - the clarity, the range, the expression, the drama!

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Al centro della pratica di Shenlu Liu si trova un intreccio sottile tra gesto manuale, materia e spazio, in un linguaggio poetico e meditativo. Nata a Pechino nel 2000, Liu ha studiato Fashion Design (Knitwear) al Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology e ha completato un MA in Textiles al Royal College of Art di Londra, laureandosi con distinzione. La sua pratica si colloca deliberatamente oltre i confini dell’artigianato, trasformando maglia, tessitura, ricamo e simulazione digitale in strumenti concettuali capaci di restituire esperienza sensoriale e attenzione al corpo, alla percezione e al tempo, in dialogo con la dimensione immateriale della contemporaneità. Attraverso video, stampe digitali...

Leipzig, Germany-based artist Alexander Endrullat has traded traditional Intaglio printing plates for discarded laptops. His ongoing series titled Off the Grid emerged from a familiar yet annoying scenario: owning an older device that can no longer be updated, rendering it practically unusable. Endrullat’s frustration led him to a moment of impulsivity as he pushed his device through a printing press, coincidentally discovering the distinctive technique. “One of the most interesting aspects of the process is how clearly the progressive destruction of the devices becomes visible after each print,” the artist explains. With each pass through the device becomes increasingly altered, revealing details about...

Last week researchers at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage of Belgium (KIK-IRPA) announced that they had used scientific analysis to connect a centuries-old Pietà painting to the Italian master Michelangelo. In addition, an independent Italian researcher published a paper which asserted that a marble bust of Christ, housed in a Roman basilica, was a Michelangelo as well. In […]

There are many occasions when language fails me, when a poet’s hand seems what is needed to get to the truth of a thing—a man’s life, a work of art, a life of art. This is such a moment. To call the oil paintings of Eyvind Earle “landscapes” is accurate but very sorely wanting. For […]
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HAIFA, ISRAEL—ZME Science reports that Shlomi Katzin of the University of Haifa discovered a three-foot-long Crusader-era sword encrusted with shells and sand while swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off Israel’s Dor Beach. The Israel Antiquities Authority soon granted permission to recover the object from the seabed and transfer it to the University of Haifa. A CT scan at a nearby hospital revealed that the sword’s iron blade is severely corroded, yet enough of it survives to indicate that it was likely forged in Europe and belonged to a Frankish knight. “Swords were precious objects, and therefore were carefully cared for and preserved,” said Sára Lantos of the University of Haifa. “In the Middle...

Bone needle LARAMIE, WYOMING—According to a statement released by the University of Wyoming, McKenna Litynski of the University of Wyoming and her colleagues reviewed hundreds of ethnographic documents dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries for patterns of needle and awl use, and determined that they were most commonly used for sewing. Statistical modeling of the information also suggests that the use of needles and awls was recorded more often in colder climates, where warm, tailored clothing would have been necessary for survival. Needles and awls were also found to have been used for medical suturing, fishing, tattooing, basketry, and ceremonial activities. Read the original scholarly...

In the practices of Beverly Price and Gordon Parks, photography operates on a continuum. Images, for them, are both dynamic and archival, documenting a singular moment that continues to communicate with the viewer long after that time has passed. A Language We Share, opening this month at the Center for Art and Advocacy, probes these expansive and evolving interpretations of the practice by putting Price and Parks in direct conversation. One of the most lauded photographers of his time, Parks (1912-2006) embedded himself in American life from the 1940s onward, creating distinctive images for magazines like Ebony and Glamour and embarking on projects rooted in civil rights and social justice. He considered his...

Lise Davidsen, Michael Spyres, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin are astonishing in Tristan und Isolde at the Met, while Yuval Sharon's new production is anything but.

The history of photography is often written through movements, technologies and aesthetics, yet it is equally shaped by the restless individuals who carried cameras across borders in search of understanding. Travel photography has long been entangled with questions of representation, power and cultural encounter. Today, contemporary audiences revisit early documentary images not simply as records, but as layered testimonies shaped by the conditions of their time. Against this backdrop, the work of Ella Maillart stands out for its rare combination of curiosity, independence and empathy. Her photographs do not merely catalogue distant landscapes but attempt to trace the rhythms of everyday life across regions...

 
We’re very pleased to announce that the first in our The Colour Library series, BLUE, is now available to order now from the Shutter Hub shop!
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives. Our first edition is dedicated to blue.
A colour of depth and distance. Blue is a language. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue can evoke calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow.
From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes, within these pages...

Daguerreotypes. Photograms. Double exposure. Today, we’re spotlighting five experimental photography exhibitions. These shows feature a mix of 20th century pioneers, like Lillian Bassman, whose visionary work redefined fashion and fine art photography, alongside contemporary practitioners such as Garry Fabian Miller and Liz Nielsen, who continue to explore light, colour and process in groundbreaking ways. Across these exhibitions, each image challenges perception, interrogates memory and celebrates the material and conceptual possibilities of lens-based medium. This is traditional imagery, reimagined. Liz Nielsen: Interdimensional Timelines  Joseloff Gallery at Hartford School of Art | Until 11 April ...

È con questa domanda che il visitatore è invitato ad attraversare la mostra collettiva Aria Notturna,  in corso alla Galleria Zero…, realizzata in collaborazione con Neue Alte Brücke e Matt Williams, che indaga le risposte dell’ambiente ai mutamenti di stato derivanti dall’oscurità, dai sistemi di illuminazione e di sorveglianza. Strumenti che colpiscono non solo lo spazio della rappresentazione, ma soprattutto quello della percezione, dando vita a una rete immateriale di stimoli e di informazioni.
Racheal Crowther, “Close Call Only (20139 Milano)”, 2026, antenna Diamond D-777 (installata sul tetto), radio scanner Whistler TRX2, frequenze radio, cavo coassiale a specifica militare, gabbia di...

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Parterre Box features a performance from two belcantisti who would rather you not think about their political affiliations.

In art and life, the future has emerged as both a caution and a possibility. The climate crisis, accelerating technologies and new planetary infrastructures now shape the narratives artists construct about tomorrow. Increasingly, creative practice is less about prediction and more about rehearsal, imagining how humanity might navigate the realities unfolding. The news cycle right now shows a new senseless war, and this, coupled with Gaza and Ukraine, sees the planet inching closer and closer to that doomsday clock.  Immersive exhibitions have emerged as powerful arenas for this speculative thinking, intersecting art, science fiction and design, They allow audiences not merely to observe but to inhabit...

Nello spazio espositivo zerozerosullivellodelmare a Pescara, diretto da Lúcio Rosato, è in corso la mostra “In gioco” del collettivo artistico abruzzese Di Bernardo Rietti Toppeta. La mostra è un’indagine sull’evoluzione del gioco nel tempo e sul gioco inteso come terreno fertile in cui le potenzialità intellettuali dell’individuo possono evolversi, soprattutto recuperando il contatto con la Natura e stabilendo delle connessioni sociali e umane, non soltanto virtuali. Il progetto nasce come riflessione su come la nascita delle nuove tecnologie e lo sviluppo dei videogiochi, abbiano influito soprattutto sulle nuove generazioni e sulla loro percezione della realtà, modificando il loro modo di...

By Kristine Schomaker I keep seeing Liberal Jane's work pop up across different platforms - Instagram, obviously, but also sliding through Facebook, saved in Pinterest boards, shared in group chats. This immersion matters more than I think we acknowledge. These aren't gallery pieces waiting for the right audience to find them. They're already embedded in the actual digital infrastructure where people are trying to survive right now. Caitlin Blunnie has been making this work for seven years,...

Time to Act at Pittsburgh Opera effectively employs Greek tragedy to explore the all-too-common tragedies haunting schools across the United States.

Parks. Railway stations. City halls. Hotels. Theatres. Abstract artist Tada Minami (1924-2014) was committed to practice that spanned beyond the confines of the museum. She often left her creations in urban spaces, where they have since formed an integral part of everyday life. Across an almost 70-year career, she covered huge ground, varying her approach to both material and scale. Her works include massive, stainless-steel sculptures that appear to rise sharply skywards; glass and acrylic constructions that reflect the environment; and “Illuminated Walls,” which contain richly-coloured light. Tada is emblematic of a postwar Japan that was rapidly modernising, transforming itself into the nation of...

In alcuni artisti la creatività è fortemente intrecciata al vissuto, mentre in altri la componente autobiografica è meno influente. Alla prima categoria di sicuro appartiene Robert Mapplethorpe, la cui produzione fotografica è connessa a un’esistenza diventata, nell’ultimo decennio, molto crudele e a una biografia personale che diventa sociale. All’osservatore capita così, di fronte alle sue fotografie, di non poter fare a meno di sentire il vissuto dell’artista, incrociandolo con le immagini, anche quando – e ne è la maggioranza – le immagini hanno un tono distante e opposto al dolore esistenziale. Un vissuto che si dipana, sia nella vita vera sia nella fotografia, anche pensando agli...