To what extent photographing naked people poses issues around Ethics and Objectification in Boris Mikhailov’s Case History?
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter TO WHAT EXTENT PHOTOGRAPHING NAKED PEOPLE POSES ISSUES AROUND ETHICS AND OBJECTIFICATION IN BORIS MIKHAILOV’S CASE HISTORY? Text by: Antonino Barbaro Introduction When the book Case History by Boris Mikhailov first came out, it was met with the rare response […]
“Schwarzenegger is my idol” // Sergey Melnitchenko
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter SERGEY MELNITCHENKO Schwarzenegger is my idol websiteinstagram Publisher: Moksop text by: Matteo Cremonesi “What remains original in the work is what is not verbal: for example its physicality, its voice, its body. The body: here is a land not […]
Santolo Felaco
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter SANTOLO FELACO Spleen websiteInstagram Et de longs corbillards, sans tambours ni musique,Défilent lentement dans mon âme; l’Espoir,Vaincu, pleure, et l’Angoisse atroce, despotique,Sur mon crâne incliné plante son drapeau noir. (extract from “Spleen”by C. Baudelaire) Where I come from, even the air […]
Pastoral, to die in the country
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter Pastoral, to die in the countryShûji Terayama (Japan, 1974) text by: Matteo Cremonesi “Have you ever looked carefully at the map of Japan?There is a small piece that looks like an ax. Another looks like a human head.I was […]
The error in digital language
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter The error in digital language text by: Matteo Cremonesi In a linguistic universe that cannot exempt itself from passing through technological mediation, glitches and crashes (what therefore results and emerges from systemic errors) constitutes a “sign” that has become […]
Daniel Gonçalves
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter DANIEL GONÇALVES Letters to Elvis websiteInstagram Elvis Aaron Presley died at the age of 42 in 1977, the year I was born. Growing up in in Canada, American music was not a significant influence in my life, but the curiosity of […]
“The Wedding” // Boris Mikhailov
PHROOM BORIS MIKHAILOV The Wedding Publisher: Morel Books text by: Matteo Cremonesi The controversial photographic work of Boris Mikhailov documents the terrible daily lives and the ruthless social conditions in which many homeless people (also known as Bomzhes), end up in post-communist Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. Destroyed lives that […]
Alice Lucchinelli
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter DANCE QUEERDO DANCE,(A CELEBRATION OF ROFFA AND ITS MOST WEIRD AND QUEER) INTERVIEW WITH ALICE LUCCHINELLI websiteInstagram After a recent exhibition featuring different emerging artists, RAW Streetphoto Gallery opened its latest season on Saturday the 14 March with a solo exhibition […]
Ioanna Sakellaraki
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter IOANNA SAKELLARAKI The Truth is in the Soil websiteInstagram The series started evolving four years ago, when the death of my father sparked a journey back home and the exploration of traditional Greek funerary rituals. Endeavouring to further understand my roots, […]
Enrico Smerilli
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter ENRICO SMERILLI Here is where we meet websiteInstagram “…No, you will never know it. The only thing you need to know is if you are lying or trying to say the truth, you cannot afford to make any confusion.” John Berger […]