united by what separates them: a sequence of journey pictures
Documenting a journey alongside the Italian land border, United by What Separates is Alessandro Cristofoletti’s current images narrative. Touring over 9,000 km from Ventimiglia to Trieste, the Italian photographer and author reveals the variety of the panorama, structure, and the neighborhood to search out uncommon, typically surreal photographs. Shifting not solely alongside an arbitrary political line on a human-drawn map, the sequence additionally transcends spatial, temporal, cultural and visible boundaries linked in a dense net of relationships.
males’s part of the Pedocin bathtub, Trieste (Italy) | all photographs by Alessandro Cristofoletti
Alessandro Cristofoletti captures variety throughout borders
A socio-political commentary on the divisive nature of boundaries and borders, Alessandro Cristofoletti’s photograph sequence considers how attention-grabbing borders of any form might be—not just for the tensions they generate, but additionally for the exchanges they allow. Capturing photographs of variety and wonder in his travels, United by What Separates brings collectively a group of characters, areas and locations photographer encountered. A sequence of typically surreal and typically merely nostalgic compositions seize landscapes from a snow farm in Livigno to a fire-ravaged Slovenian subject to plane ruins and habitats.
The primary a part of the sequence was exhibited at MIA Pictures Honest in 2022 and likewise received the New Put up Pictures award.
Snowfarm, Livigno (Italy)
Explaining the unifying idea behind the work, Alexander Cristofoletti feedback: “We’re the youngsters of the longest interval of peace and freedom within the historical past of Europe, but the problem of the border has come again strongly into our lives in some ways. Separation incorporates one thing deep and partly inaccessible: the restrict and the issue (or impossibility) of crossing it. Past the brink is the opposite, be it man/lady, a spot, nature, the context through which we reside, ourselves by the mirror or in one other time.’
After the hearth, Brestovizza in Valle (Slovenia)
Sheep hiding from the warmth, Vršič Cross (Slovenia)
Arrival, Val di Fleres (Italy)
Lodge room, Lodge Busca-Thedy, Gressoney (Italy)
Crucifix, Ilonse (France)
the journey map
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designer: Alessandro Cristofoletti
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