Niko Romito Abruzzo

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

Antiparos Veicolos Northern Cyclade

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

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…

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…

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…

Still Tracing

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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…

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…

Japan Japan

Abruzzo Abruzzo

Western South Dakota South Dakota

Croyance Tahiti

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…

Buenos Aires Argentina

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

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…

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…

12.25

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

Echo

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

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…

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…

Les Vases Communicants

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

In Conversation with Dr Berhane Asfaw Ethiopian Palaeontologist Ethiopia

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

Animal Noises Galapagos

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

Can we still travel?

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

Human Geography

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

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….

Flying River Brasil

As integral to the Amazon Rainforest as its billions upon billions of Tacuma palms, rubber trees and Cupuaçu is a…

Oscar Niemeyer São Paulo Brasil

Ibirapuera, Bienal 1951, Auditório 2002, OCA 1954 The Bienal de São Paulo was initiated in 1951 and is the second…

Chu Ming Silveira Brasil

Chu Ming House, Early 1970s This house in Brutalist style was created in the early 1970s by the visionary Asian-Brazilian…

Rainforest Reserve, Cristalino Lodge Brasil

The vision of Vitória da Riva 1990 The Cristalino Private National Heritage Reserve is located in the south of the…

Gregori Warchavchik Brasil

Casa Modernista 1928 Rua Itápolis, São PauloThere was no marriage proposal. To tell the truth, I don’t even remember how…

Jorge Zalszupin Brasil

Casa ZALSZUPIN 1962 Jardim América, São Paulo Casa Zalszupin began as a tribute, with a certain dose of nonconformity, provocation…

Lina Bo Bardi Brasil

Casa de Vidro 1951 Drawing on Glass 18 September 1952. It rained and rained as the winter of 1952 drew…

Lina Bo Bardi SESC Pompéia Brasil

SESC Pompéia 1977Água Branca, São Paulo  “I built the SESC – Fábrica da Pompeia, which isn’t really a museum, it…

Oscar Niemeyer Rio de Janeiro Brasil

Casa das Canoas 1951 Designed by Niemeyer as his residence in 1951, Casa das Canoas is considered one of the…

Roberto Burle Marx Brasil

Botanical and Architectural Complex (1950s)Loggia (1967) and Ateliê/Studio (1970s) When he was about 38 years old, Roberto Burle Marx started…

Ruy Ohtake Brasil

Casa-ateliê Tomie Ohtake 1966 Campo Belo, São Paulo Tomie Ohtake’s home-studio is, in the words of art critic and professor…

Domingo Milella talks to Francesco Zanot

Future / Memories Four hundred centuries of images meet, flickering through the dark, at the speed of light, from the…

La Gomera, an Indigenous Heritage La Gomera to Tangieri

Canary Islands, Spain PROLOGUE After a bumpy flight from Tenerife, La Gomera’s sister island, I landed on the shortest runway…

Tangier, the Babel of the Mediterranean La Gomera to Tangieri

Morocco. North Africa “It’s like not really being in Africa,” says Mohamed as he drives through the new neighbourhoods of…

West Texas 16 Days West Texas

with Carefully Curated I drove east out of Marfa, past mile after mile of fenced-in rangeland dotted with Soaptree yucca,…

An intimate journey by Giorgio Armani

Dive into Terraforma Exo: 
Milan’s Hot Spot to Attune to the Urban through Sound

Words by Ilaria Sponda Stemming from Terraforma — the decade-long experimental music festival initiated by Threes Productions — Terraforma Exo…

Ethics of the Wanderer

He who has attained only some degree of freedom of mind cannot feel other than a wanderer on the earth—though…

Anna Boghiguian in conversation with Francesca Verga

Born in Egypt to an Armenian family, Anna Boghiguian (Cairo, 1946) is a multifaceted artist who first studied at the…

Lights in the Sky Mexico

In the early nineties, Playa del Muerto, or Dead Man’s Beach, was little more than a strip of greyish sand…

The Garden of Pixels

Pixels are the subatomic particles that make up a digital figure, its genetic code, its matrix, the smallest parts into…

Celestial Prelude. In the Studio of Anselm Kiefer

The decaying Domus Aurea of Barjac has grown up like a forest made of objects, inventions, relics. Walking around it,…

A Fragment Mexico

Sometimes he opens the desk drawer, sticks his arm in right to the back and reaches for the box. It’s…

Nothing More Than Existing Milan to Bezau

I It is late. The concert has already begun. The hall is bursting its buttons. The barmaids wear black waistcoats….

Uzbek Blaze Uzbekistan

Eventide, in Uzbekistan, and night comes in to berth, filled with soft, fleeting light. I’ve never seen anything like it…

Welcome to the Loos House. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome Eastern Europe

The epidermis. The skin. Touch.   The edifying art of Adolf Loos seems to be all about surfaces. You immediately…

To Look Without Fear

In his first show at Café Gnosa in Hamburg (1988), Wolfgang Tillmans exhibited Approaches, images made with a Canon laser…

The Urban Ecosystem Costa Rica to Colombia

It is a grey autumn morning in Leyden, the old university city in the west of the Netherlands that is…

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…

Young Mungo Scottish Highlands

A sharp wind blew across the loch and snapped the fabric of his cagoule in its hurry. The air was…

Folk in the Hebrides Scottish Highlands

Words by Lisa Rovner Images courtesy of The Margaret Fay Shaw Film Collection, Canna House, NTS The American ethnomusicologist and…

Launching Issue 10

TO LOOK WITHOUT FEAR: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF WOLFGANG TILLMANS SEEN BY THE CURATOR CLOE PICCOLI Tillmans is interested in the…

The Land Behind Across Beyond the Woods Eastern Europe

Romania is just over 100 years old. To understand Romania is to understand that, for many, it is not Romania. …

Espanto y miedo Galapagos

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

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