Event Details
Tue, September 24, 2024
18:00 – 19:30
VILLA SASSETTI
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Firenze, Italy
Urban Narratives. Photography and the City
A Conversation with Tommaso Tanini
Photographer, publisher, photobook designer and
member of DISCIPULA collective (2013-2021)
Moderated by
Jacopo Santini, Lecturer, NYU Florence
Tommaso Tanini will present two projects (H. Said he Loved Us and Just Like Arcadia), in which the architectural/urbanistic aspects are fundamental from both a conceptual and formal point of view. Tanini will also explain the importance of unusual materials and solutions and how these can trigger further meanings in photographic representation, both in books and in exhibition spaces.
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Tommaso Tanini
PHOTOGRAPHER
Tommaso Tanini is a photographer, editor and lecturer. In 2014 he published H. said he loved us (Discipula Ed.), winner of the Author Book Award – Les Recontres d’Arles (2015). Co-founder of DISCIPULA (2013-2021), a collective operating in the field of contemporary visual research through the interweaving of different practices: exhibition projects, publishing, lectures, and workshops. Currently teaching at Cfp BAUER and working on editorial projects mainly based on photo-works