Photo-essays

Collateral Landscape

Milan-based architect and photographer Antonio Ottomanelli maps the forces unleashed following the events of September 11, 2001, which cast distant realities — Kabul, Baghdad, Sadr City, Herat, Dokan, New York City, Gaza — into a "state of entanglement".

Photo-essays / Antonio Ottomanelli

A city in waiting

Young photographer Giovanni Hänninen documents the contemporary abandoned spaces in the city of Milan. In Alberto Amoretti's words, this is "a dormant city, huddled between the tower blocks and grand buildings of a metropolis that starves for more land".

Photo-essays / Giovanni Hänninen

Biology of the inorganic

Carlo D'Orta is described by Gianluca Marziani as a "biologist" of the contemporary landscape, an under-the-skin researcher who digs underneath the first layer of urban appearance.

Photo-essays / Carlo D'Orta

Analog Blast: a closer look

Young photographer Delfino Sisto Legnani takes us on a colour tour of the exhibition curated by Domus at Casa degli Atellani, capturing the historic residence revamped by the analogue world of Ramak Fazel.

Salone2013 / Delfino Sisto Legnani

The Afronauts

The story of the Zambian space program is a starting point for Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel to look differently at the African continent, building a bridge between documentary photography and cinema.

Photo-essays / Cristina De Middel

Architecture of the unconscious

Francesca Esposito interviews photographer and psychologist Mattia Mognetti, whose interest lies in exploring the abstract and the concrete sides of architecture, the monuments and the non-places of Milan.

Photo-essays / Mattia Mognetti

Re-reading ruins

Italian photographer Davide Virdis captures forsaken, vacant and uninhabited places in Florence, Sassari, Rome, and Pontassieve, where despite the signs of abandonment, human presence is as alive as ever.

Photo-essays / Davide Virdis

Multan, the walled city

Italian photographer Marco Introini surveys a far-away, fascinating city in the Punjab, the fertile plain at the heart of Pakistan: a centuries-old settlement where history and renovation come together.

Photo-essays / Marco Introini

As a fallen apartment building

Photographer Francesca Cirilli surveys the Kreuzberg Wagenplatz community, an informal settlement that claims the possibility and the will to live in public space, arranging it according to inhabitants' needs.

Photo-essays / Francesca Cirilli

Hong Kong layers

Francesca Esposito interviews Chinese photographer Dick Chan, who compares the metamorphosis of old neighbourhoods — made up of factories, skyscrapers and council housing — with the accelerated modernisation of the Asian megalopolis.

Photo-essays / Dick Chan

Painting over the Present

Sixteen years after the end of apartheid, photographer Graeme Williams explores the transformation of South African society, capturing details of people's homes in small towns, townships and cities throughout the country.

Photo-essays / Graeme Williams

Based on real facts

Joan Fontcuberta reads the work of photographer Txema Salvans, who surveys the leisure sites of the post-industrial society, bringing out all their surreal banality and sharpening the funny sense of strangeness they engender.

Photo-essays / Txema Salvans

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Collateral Landscape

Milan-based architect and photographer Antonio Ottomanelli maps the forces unleashed following the events of September 11, 2001, which cast distant realities — Kabul, Baghdad, Sadr City, Herat, Dokan, New York City, Gaza — into a "state of entanglement".

A city in waiting

Young photographer Giovanni Hänninen documents the contemporary abandoned spaces in the city of Milan. In Alberto Amoretti's words, this is "a dormant city, huddled between the tower blocks and grand buildings of a metropolis that starves for more land".

Biology of the inorganic

Carlo D'Orta is described by Gianluca Marziani as a "biologist" of the contemporary landscape, an under-the-skin researcher who digs underneath the first layer of urban appearance.

Analog Blast: a closer look

Young photographer Delfino Sisto Legnani takes us on a colour tour of the exhibition curated by Domus at Casa degli Atellani, capturing the historic residence revamped by the analogue world of Ramak Fazel.

The Afronauts

The story of the Zambian space program is a starting point for Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel to look differently at the African continent, building a bridge between documentary photography and cinema.

Architecture of the unconscious

Francesca Esposito interviews photographer and psychologist Mattia Mognetti, whose interest lies in exploring the abstract and the concrete sides of architecture, the monuments and the non-places of Milan.

Architecture

Design

Art

Products

Re-reading ruins

Italian photographer Davide Virdis captures forsaken, vacant and uninhabited places in Florence, Sassari, Rome, and Pontassieve, where despite the signs of abandonment, human presence is as alive as ever.

Multan, the walled city

Italian photographer Marco Introini surveys a far-away, fascinating city in the Punjab, the fertile plain at the heart of Pakistan: a centuries-old settlement where history and renovation come together.

As a fallen apartment building

Photographer Francesca Cirilli surveys the Kreuzberg Wagenplatz community, an informal settlement that claims the possibility and the will to live in public space, arranging it according to inhabitants' needs.

Architecture

Design

Art

Products

Hong Kong layers

Francesca Esposito interviews Chinese photographer Dick Chan, who compares the metamorphosis of old neighbourhoods — made up of factories, skyscrapers and council housing — with the accelerated modernisation of the Asian megalopolis.

Painting over the Present

Sixteen years after the end of apartheid, photographer Graeme Williams explores the transformation of South African society, capturing details of people's homes in small towns, townships and cities throughout the country.

Based on real facts

Joan Fontcuberta reads the work of photographer Txema Salvans, who surveys the leisure sites of the post-industrial society, bringing out all their surreal banality and sharpening the funny sense of strangeness they engender.