New York City New York

There’s a big Russian grocery store on the edge of Brighton Beach, deep in Brooklyn, off the Q train, near…

Nothing Happens Twice

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The landscape that surrounds my home in Sweden can be misleading. The bird activity it contains is diluted by the…

The Noguchi Museum New York

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was one of the twentieth century’s most important and critically acclaimed sculptors. Through a lifetime of artistic…

The Place Tuscany and Corsica

At the entrance to the church, the dark, towering door. Closed, it looks as if it’s leaning backwards; it makes…

Time Flowing in Two Directions Ethiopia

A little bit more than a century ago, the Empress of the Ethiopian Empire Taitù Batùl founded the city. In…

A Moveable Feast Tuscany and Corsica

Beyond the trembling plain of the northern Tyrrhenian and the intricate rocks which start the island, past the schist smoothed…

Ethio Jazz: Basic Coordinates to Get Lost in the Music Ethiopia

“As musicians, we should go back, all the way back, because you’ll always find something very interesting.” Mulatu Astatke In the…

When Danger Approaches Sing to It

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Amy Hempel is 69 years old and has recently discovered the beauty of tattoos. On one leg she has inscribed…

Journey of a Father

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“We laymen have always been intensely curious to know”Sigmund Freud Maybe everything, I mean absolutely everything if you know how…

Incomplete Encyclopaedia of a True Story

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“I’m too fascinated to be afraid.” Anni Albers What we know about Nancy is that she was born in America…

South of Italy Naples

Dear Vincenzo, as a native of Palermo, there are a series of issues that are close to my heart. And…

Water is a selfie Naples

Imagine the immortal version of a blue iris. Then, Capri, Ischia and Procida, in a row, sharing out the light…

Duality

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This is the first major museum exhibition that you’ve made that doesn’t start with a performance. There will be a…

Mass and Individual East and West

The reportage stems from photographic research conducted using Google Earth. The investigation focuses on places where Westerners have limited access,…

Real Museo Mineralogico Naples Naples

The history of the Royal Mineralogical Museum at the Federico II University of Naples somehow follows the development of the…

Siria Morus Alba East and West

Silence. Static and suspended sky. Fixed and motionless clouds. The squares are empty. Everything has stopped. The whole world. I grasp…

Multi-Family Architecture

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A residential building that does not include only one or two homes is a “multi-family” dwelling. What I’m referring to…

The Memory of Ruins East and West

The thing that the world was most struck by in the Taleban destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 was…

William Kentridge Waiting For The Sibyl, 2020

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Inspired by the movement and by the rotation of Calder’s artworks, Kentridge evokes the priestess mentioned by Dante: the Cumean…

What Happens to the Roots

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Stefano Boeri, love him or loathe him, you definitely can’t ignore him: his face is without doubt at the centre…

Marseilles

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The man smoking while Henry gets ready for his dive looks just like me. It’s not me, but as I…

Nothing is More Distant from Travelling Than Tourism

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In conversation with Rodolphe Christinby Valentina Pigmei Venice, April 2020: the images of the city’s clear blue waters made their way…

La casa del Farmacista Naples

Capri. 15 steps to the tiny sandy beach of Marina Piccola. 1970s designer furniture, original tiles and functional division of…

Villa D’Ayala Naples

Three Years on the Borders Between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon East and West

THE MORE TIME I SPENT IN THOSE PLACES, THE LESS I UNDERSTOOD  I almost had to cancel out the geography. These stories…

South of France South of France

South of Italy Naples

It’s impossible to disappear

When I decided to have this conversation with Lawrence Osborne, perhaps one of the greatest living travel writers and one…

Feminist city

I hadn’t read such a visionary and at the same time necessary, topical and balanced study for a long time….

Swedish Lapland Swedish Lapland

Una raccolta incompleta di voci sul colonialismo e le macerie che rimangono

Questo testo è un piccolo zibaldone di episodi sparsi nel tempo e nello spazio, anche se concentrati nell’Europa meridionale, che…

The Great Void Tuscany and Corsica

The boundless province with its contradictions was our playing field. No one quite knew what the goal was or which…

We Are All Brothers And Sisters Ethiopia

After all, biologists have finally proven it to be true, something that philosophers have always dreamt to be true. And that is the fact…

In Conversation with Dr Berhane Asfaw Ethiopian Palaeontologist Ethiopia

We Are All Brothers And Sisters Ethiopia

A film by Cartographywith Lale Biwa, junior elder of the Kara tribeDirected by Luca De SantisMusic by Roberto Paci Dalò…

Iguazú Argentina’s Mesopotamia Argentina

Juan Pablo Culasso has been blind since birth, yet he is one of the few birders capable of identifying almost…

Moulting to divest Jordan

“It’s a poem that speaks ofchange as death and rebirth; my mother, who was about to die while I was…

Gimme emotions!

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Fashion is the most un-sustainable of all industries, which is why the current obsession with sustainability makes me suspicious to…

Swedish Lapland Swedish Lapland

In Praise of the Fruit of Life

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Casting by PATRICIA VILLIRILLO Hair & Make up by CLAUDIA MALAVASI Set Design by FABIO NEGRO COUSSA Stylist’s Assistant SOFIA…

Echo

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Set Designer MARTINA LUCATELLI and LEANDRO FAVALORO, Assistant Set Designer ALESSANDRA CHIARELLI

Les Vases Communicants

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Model GEORGINA GRENVILLE – Fashion, CHEN Y – Urban, KIM – PopHair Styling by ASTOR HOXA – CloseUpMilano using Officina…

12.25

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Model ELETTRA CINTI, The Fashion Model Management Photo Assistant GRETA TOSONI

Wolf Among Wolves

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Model FRANCESCA CIOFFI (MONSTER), Casting by FEDERICA CIUCI PRIORI (SIMO  BART CASTING), Hair & Make-up by ASTOR HOXHA, Photo Assistant…

Animal Noises Galapagos

Hide and seek. When I can’t see it, it sneaks up to my right, its fur brushing against me. I…

Song and Water Georgia

EarthGeorgia is like a chalked-off space where the obsession with time and, to a lesser extent, individuality, all of a…

Human Geography

It was back in 2018 when I last spoke to Parag Khanna about the future of humanity. I was in…

An Incomplete Collection of Voices on Colonialism, Racism and New Right-wing Threats

This text is a small miscellany of episodes, dotted around time and space, but nevertheless concentrated in southern Europe. Only…

Espanto y miedo Galapagos

Today we finches with the different beak who adorn voluminous manuals on evolution are presented with other individuals of the…

A Salad of the Senses Galapagos

ColoursOur tale of these unique and precious islands could start from the colours, but it’d be too predictable, a list…

Can we still travel?

These days we journey through crushing defeats and miracles. The miracle of a fearless discovery lit up along the way;…

Coming up for Air

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Hold your breath and put your fingers in your ears to mute the chaos of the modern world. Information often…

Argentina with Marcelo Burlon Argentina

Its frontiers mainly rest upon natural features: rivers to the north and north-east, the Andes to the west, the river…

Buenos Aires Argentina

LUNA PAIVA, artist What’s your first memory of Argentina? One of my first memories is of Argentina, when I was…

The Train Judders and Jolts China

“Ten minutes on the underground, a compendium of small bodily features, the paradigm of much else in Hong Kong.” The…

Walking Fish Peruvian Amazon

This is the real Amazon jungle, where pink freshwater dolphins bring unplanned pregnancies, the night speckled with the red eyes…

Cala Gadir Pantelleria

The natural range of colours and tones of the vegetation make this garden a miniature of everything that a Volcano…

Still Tracing

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Western South Dakota South Dakota

Croyance Tahiti

Abruzzo Abruzzo

On The Road Again

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Compared to painting, photography has an obvious flaw: in order to depict a subject, it has to be in front…

Respect for the Ice Greenland

They still talked about it in the town, the inhabitants of Ilulissat would still be almost proud of it until…

Antiparos Veicolos Northern Cyclade

As I rested in the shade of some fronds on the most secret beach of Antiparos, Cyclades, Greece, it came…

Casa No Tempo Portugal and Azores

Sabugueiro, Arraiolos, Alentejo. “Casa No Tempo has belonged to our family for many years. My grandfather wanted us to take…

Lima Surf Scene Peruvian Amazon

Lima is the South American capital of surfing, and as such it presents many surf options, from beaches for beginners…

Niko Romito Abruzzo

After landing in Naples, I turn my back to the sea. Behind me is picture-postcard Italy – Ischia, Sorrento, Capri,…

Japan Japan