FUTURES Talk with Giangavino Pazzola Curator at Camera-Italian Center for Photography
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Join us for a talk with Giangavino Pazzola, Curator at Camera-Italian Center for Photography. He will present his research on New Documentary Strategies, developed during his residency in Amsterdam in July.
"Over the last decade, in Italy several experts have interpreted emerging practices in the Italian context as experiences close to the notions of post and metaphotography. However, there has been little attention given to more recent and innovative studies such as Speculative Documentary (Bellinck & van Dienderen, 2019) or New Documentary Strategies (Hamilton, 2021), both active in Northern Europe. These approaches emphasize the aesthetic, political, social, and technological specificities of the medium. The research investigates the photographic production of Italian authors active after 2004 (the year the Flickr website was launched, and art historian Hal Foster published An Archival Impulse) like Lorenzo Vitturi, Arianna Arcara, Federico Clavarino, Marina Caneve, Salvatore Vitale, Silvia Rosi, Karim El Makthafi and more to trace their roots and continuities with previous generations, and to position them within an updated and international critical horizon."
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, 08 October 2025
Walk in: 17.15 -17.30
Workshop: 17.30 -19.00
Talk: 19.00
Studio Open Until: 20:00
Location: FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
About the Workshop
Based on the research made by the curator of CAMERA in the Italian context, NDS is a theoretical-practical workshop in which participants will be asked to apply the idea of playfulness as a metaphor for reading and interpreting contemporary life. A research method and, at the same time, a daily practice for investigating the formation of photographic art practices, NDS is a stimulus to cross the boundaries and limits of the documentary in order to reposition oneself in relation to them and find new meanings and narratives. Exploring the potential of storytelling through images and the use of photography in dialogue with other media like texts, video, performance and sculptures, NDS critically reflects on issues like truth and objectivity nowadays.
Who can attend?
Anyone interested is welcome to participate.
What is needed?
Participants may bring a portfolio if they wish, but it is not required.
This research project is supported by Strategia Fotografia 2024, an initiative of the Italian Ministry of Culture’s Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity.
Partners Fotodok and Camera-Italian Center for Photography.
Photo Credit: Marina Caneve