A City Map
Cities are formed by ideas as much as by the things within them. A city is not just an accumulation of objects, or an aggregation of infrastructures and services, but the concretion of the many interactions that happen in it. In its present day, as well as in its past.
We navigate the network of relationships within a city by the means of personal images and mental projections which we call our city. This collection of images, their intimate communication, are the map we bring with us wherever we go.
The Space of Desire
When the pandemic started, early in 2020, we all accepted a life of seclusion and inevitable longing for the sociality we lost. I, as many others, spent my time focusing on the routine of closeted life with my wife and son, and I made pictures of our days. This was less about creating memories for the future, than tracing the passing of time.
'The Space of Desire' is not a diary of our isolation, nor an account of how we re-embraced freedom. This is but a collection of fragments of the space that for several weeks we longed to inhabit again. These are but particles, remnants of the object of our aspiration.
As happens with any form of memory, this is not a list, nor a summation, but the disorder of undefined possibilities that the space of my desire was made of.
Projects
The Distance Between the Angles
For the imagination, it is very satisfying to be forced to go back to production when there seems to be no authorial whirlwind. I can't say I take this advice easily. However, since I'm prone to kicking out of natural necessity, I don't mind being engaged in a contest in which I'm bound to lose.
Projects
Vanishing Point
Projects
Always Careful When Lopping
"His love for this arboreal element made him, as all real loves do, become merciless even to the point of hurting, wounding and amputating so as to help growth and give shape.
Certainly he was always careful when pruning and lopping; (…) thus he would see that the branches which he used as a bridge between one tree and another were always saved, and reinforced by the suppression of others."
Projects
The Machine
A 35mm camera loaded with black and white film looks at electronic devices making pictures.
Joel Meyerowitz. Europa 1966 1967
The work explores in depth the life-changing trip made by Joel Meyerowitz across Europe in the Sixties. During his journey, Joel used photography not only to get in contact with the places and the people he met, but especially as a means of examining and developing his own photographic identity. Upon his return to the US, his photography had changed forever. In this book Joel explains how and why.
The book includes over 200 pictures, an introduction by Miguel Lopez-Remiro, and an afterword by Maggie Barrett. The story of the journey was co-written by Joel and myself.
Pages: 270
Hardbound
Published June 2024
The Pleasure of Seeing
In conversation with historian and photographer Lorenzo Braca, Meyerowitz speaks vividly about his beginnings, studying art history, meeting Robert Frank, photographing on the streets of New York City with Tony Ray-Jones and Garry Winogrand, traveling extensively across America and Europe, learning from John Szarkowski, director of photography at MoMA, working on numerous exhibitions and publications, photographing at Ground Zero in 2001 and 2002, and about the most recent still lifes and self-portraits projects.
The book contains over one hundred pictures, including Joel's most iconic photographs as well as new and previously unpublished material. This comprehensive visual biography testifies to the author's continuing evolution throughout the six decades of his career and discusses his work in relation to his personal life, to the history of photography, and to the incessant transformation of the medium. Meyerowitz reveals anecdotes, personal memories, and the story behind many of his famous photographs.
Pages: 216
Hardbound
Published April 2023
